Back in February we got a nice call from Catherine Owens, long time super creative director for the uber-famous band U2. Catherine came across our video This is Agostina and knew she found the team who could help rock some video/visuals for this years U2 360 world tour. For the past few months we went to New York for meetings, came back to the Bangkok studio and have been rocking on over 200 video clips for the upcoming show. The concert opens in Barcelona on June 30, 2009 to a sold out crowd of 90,000 fans. For complete tour details you can visit the U2 Tour schedule. To get an idea of stage and the size of screen we created video work for (its MASSIVE), you can check out the U2 360 website.
As we come to wrap on this project, we are really excited/anxious to show everyone the video we contributed to the project. As soon as the tour gets rolling we will release more details (permitting all NDA rules of course). Till then, just go check out the show, I am sure U2 will give you one hell of a show!
We are on twitter and thought that this would be the best place to spread the love with random giveaways.
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To get it started, we will be giving away a one-of-a-kind, hand-painted and signed poster from Mike Perry. Detail of the poster above. See you on twitter.
We’ve been working hard to produce some compelling new fonts. Here are the four most recent additions to our collection. Meet Matter, Merriam, Morricone, and Pineapple.
We just finished a short film/edit using various clips from our stock motion collections titled Moire. Composed of patterns and hypnotic illusions, Moire may result in acid flashbacks from your teenage childhood or slight migraines when given to much concentration. Available in HD.
Just got back some pictures from YWFT6 Party from Digital Crush. A huge thanks to everyone that came out. The party went over really well even though it was cold as anything and snowing out. Thanks to Kate for making it happen!
To celebrate the new website and also us turning 6, we are throwing a little party on Saturday, November 8th in Minneapolis. It will take place at the wonderful Clubhouse Jager in Minneapolis. There will be great drink specials, music, good people and free giveaways. Come help us celebrate this and our new public officials!
We were part of this party that took place in Minneapolis called Sugar. Every 6 months in Minneapolis, they have these huge fashion events and Sugar was the big party of the weekend. YWFT was asked to contribute shirts from our new run that the servers wore. It was featured in the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper and think it was on TV too. I guess it ended in people jumping in the pool and getting freaky wild. None of us were there (we rarely go to any events like this), so we can’t verify, but here are some pictures. Get ready for new shirts from us.
This article applies only to actual shipments. This does not apply to downloads of fonts or stock items, which are always available 24/7 for download.
Today, I thought I would personally address a question we get asked from time to time: Why is your shipping so expensive? Well, to us its a great deal and not expensive. I will try to explain why we think this.
Americans: We offer really competitive rates being we ship with UPS, in our opinion the best shipping provider available. We also provide (at this moment) free shipping on orders over $99. We could provide you with a very ‘cheapo’ Post Office method, but then you would be at higher risk of the package not arriving, no tracking and just overall lower handling quality by the Post Office. We want your purchase to arrive in the best condition possible, and right now UPS is doing the best job. For the few extra dollars it costs to ship via UPS, both parties avoid any nasty troubles that could arise.
International: Outside America things get tricky, with all the customs, long journey and various people handling the package. Again, we go with the best carrier available within a reasonable price range. We would prefer to use UPS, but the rates are almost three times that of the US Post Office. At this time, we ship with the US Post Office using Global Express and Global Priority methods. These two methods have proven to work out quite nice with great success rates. Now maybe some of you are saying, that’s great, but your shipping is still expensive for me. The old saying goes, ‘You get what you pay for.’ We could offer you the lowest possible shipping rate for around 20% cheaper, but it takes 4-8 weeks to arrive, ships via boat (damp+books=trouble), takes forever to clear customs (if), and most the time just vanishes in transit due to no tracking. If you use the methods we provide, the package will have tracking and has a very high success rate of arriving on time and in good shape.
A few people have written us saying they have seen the shipping at X site for much cheaper. Most likely X company is offering a lower quality method, again putting your purchase at risk and you in the position for future troubles and stress. Try and compare the actual product you are buying from us if you have doubts. For example a book like Grid Systems weighs in around 4 pounds (1.8 Kilo) when shipped. If you compare this to when you ordered a DVD from somewhere, the costs are extremely different and not comparable, so try and compare exact items, methods and rates. We will not always be the cheapest, but we do our best to provide the best quality for the cheapest.
One last thing, as you might know the worlds fuel is going up everyday. The effect, things cost more to transport. This effects not only the cost to ship the item to your front door, but as well the cost of us getting it from the distributors, which raises what we pay for the product in the first place.
We hope this helps to clear up the reasons why we have chosen the methods above for our methods of delivery. If you have comments or comments, due ask below and we will try and answer them best as possible.
We finally got back our latest project, Sentence. It’s an illustrated loosely around a poem by Grant Leuning and was worked on between the two YWFT Studio’s. We created the publication so that it can be viewed/displayed two different ways. You can read it like a magazine, from left to right or you can unfold it for larger spreads. It was created around a grid, so the pages somewhat relate to each other, even when out of context.
Here are some final pictures of the t-shirt show we were in called Sweat Shop. It was part of The Graphic Design Festival in Breda, Netherlands. They did a really nice and unique way of showing the shirts. Again, thanks to StayNice for hooking this up, was great to be in the show.
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Just got back some pictures from YWFT6 Party from 
To celebrate the new website and also us turning 6, we are throwing a little party on Saturday, November 8th in Minneapolis. It will take place at the wonderful Clubhouse Jager in Minneapolis. There will be great drink specials, music, good people and free giveaways. Come help us celebrate this and our new public officials! 
