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2008 News Archive
10/23/2008 The United Nations Association of New York (UNA-NY) hosted the 2008 Annual Humanitarian Awards Dinner on October 23, 2008 to celebrate UN Day and honor the efforts of individuals and corporations seeking to combat global warming. This year's event was themed around “Climate Change—A Call for Action.” His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland and Mr. Sadayuki Sakakibara, President of Toray Industries, Inc. were honored for their work to address the impact of global climate change. Among other effects, global warming exacerbates hurricanes, droughts, floods and other erratic weather patterns that dramatically increase political, economic and social tension. To learn more about the event, please visit the UNA-NY website. Littlefield is extremely pleased to be a part of this wonderful event between the UNA-NY where we have volunteered our creative services and Toray, our major client for the past decade. We congratulate both UNA-NY and Toray.
Top: Members of Littlefield, from left, Paula Rice jackson, Junko Mayumi and Keiji Obata with Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon.
9/28/2008
A marketing brochure promoting Toray's waterless printing is finally hot off the press at Mosaic near Washington DC, a premier printer specializing in waterless printing as well as highly environmentally-consciencious production and workflow. In synch with the "Butterfly" theme for promoting the environmentally-friendly technology employed by the Waterless Printing Association, a national trade organization, the brochure features a collection of stunning images of exotic butterflies captured by renown French photographer/biologist, Paul zz. The richly colorful and finely detailed images are meant to demonstrate the high quality and added efficiency of the advanced printing technology as well as to illustrate a concern for Nature and its precious resources. To learn more about Toray waterless printing, please visit waterless-print.com/en.
9/23/2008
After 2 years in preparation, Monochrome... by Paula Rice Jackson, a Littlefield "family member" for nearly two decades and its consultant for special projects, ....will be in bookstores soon. We discovered her just before she became Editor in Chief of Interiors Magazine in 1984. (It was a trade magazine, published by Billboard, specialized in commercial interiors.) The book is a survey of both residential and commercial interiors that have been executed in just one color. Projects include work by Philippe Starck and Marcel Wanders in Europe and John Saladino, Vincente Wolf, and José Solis Betancourt in the US. The variety of houses, apartments, restaurants and a spa includes an apartment whose entire living room was upholstered in Granny Smith Apple Green Ultrasuede®. The color serves as a backdrop for an important art collection displaying "Op" and "Pop" art with works by Frank Stella, Ed Ruscha and others. The book is published by The Monacelli Press which was recently acquired by Random House and is available at bookstores everywhere including Amazon. Littlefield designed the launch party invitation, party to be given at its showroom in NYC by the prestigious French crystal company Baccarat on November 6th, 2008. We send our warm congratulations to Paula and know the book will be a great success.
08/05/2008
Having accepted to design three CDs ALL at once for some of today's most prominent tenor saxophone artists, this April was a month for "Three Tenors" at Littlefield. The albums were "Just Between Friends" (HighNote, HCD-7188) by Houston Person with Ron Carter, "Gentle Storm" (HighNote HDC-7186) by Don Braden, and "Tenor Talk" (Savant SCD-2093) by Jerry Bergonzi. In addition to working for these three living tenor giants, we were also thrilled to design the package for "John Coltrane Song Book" (HCD-7189), a compilation album by HighNote Records of this tenor legend's music, played by some of the label's top musicians including Frank Morgan, Larry Coryell, and Ceder Walton. The CD cover features an arresting image of Contrane on a bandstand captured by the photographer K. Abe sometime in the 1960s. Having been given the opportunity to design a Coltrane album cover is a dream-come-true event for this designer.
6/21/2008 HighNote Records, and it sister label, Savant Records, won the Label of the Year Award at the JazzWeek Summit that took place in Rochester, NY, June 19-21. The label's executive producer, Joe Fields, was honored to accept the award. "We have only been doing what we've been doing since 1973—presenting great jazz artists and their music to their many fans and jazz lovers worldwide," said Fields. In addition, the label received a second award for having the largest number of releases in the "top 10" on the JazzWeek Radio Chart between May 1, 2007 and April 30, 2008. The data that is used to make up the weekly chart is gathered electronically by Media-Guide from over 80 radio stations nationwide. The Jazz WeekAwards are voted on by the publication. Littlefield congratulates Joe and Barney Fileds, the father-and-son team, Ray Osnato and the staff at HighNote. Littlefield has designed nearly 100 CDs for the label since 1999 and it's still going.
4/3/2008 Beauvais, already acknowleged as the premier designer and showroom gallery of custom-made carpets, is also known for its collection of historically significant carpets and tapestries. To highlight its extensive inventory of decorative antique Oriental and European pieces, Beauvais has been running a series of ads in Sotheby's Preview Magazine. Littlefield has been in charge of this production which requires critical precision prepress work for matching intricate colors and pattern details of each masterpiece featured in the advertising schedule.
3/11/2008 Littlefield has been assigned the project of revamping the website for The United Nations Association of New York. Continuing its relation with this NPO with whom we volunteered last year (see our 10/25/2007 news story, United Nations Day Humanitarian Awards Dinner 2007: Spotlight on the Global Water Crisis), Littlefield will completely redesign and renew the website which is more and more becoming the vital tool of communication and advocacy for the organization. Please look for the launch of the new site at the end of April.
2/6/2008
Moving to a new space in the even newer Home Textiles division of the New York International Gift Fair (February 2-6 at the Javitz Center), Matouk debuted its new baby lines for Lulu DK Matouk. Designed by Lulu DK and crafted by Matouk, the collection boasts a new genre of charming and whimsical prints for the baby's room that maintains the same quality that the parents demand for the master bedroom. Littlefield has been in charge of creating branding for the new lines. To view the debut collection, please visit http://www.luludkmatouk.com/baby/index.html.
1/20/2008
HighNote Records released a rare live recording from 1972 of the legendary jazz pianist and composer Marry Lou Williams (HCD-7180). Featuring a beautiful and rare black-and-white portrait of Ms. Williams by K.Abe, a celebrated Japanese jazz photographer active since 1960s, the CD packaging was designed by Littlefield. Stating that she is "the only living musician that has played ALL the eras," Mary Lou Williams has advised throughout her illustrious career such greats as Marian McPartland. With Ronnie Boykins and the legendary drummer Roy Haynes, this CD of a live concert appearance in the mid-70s, is the only recording so far known to bring those two together.
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