DreamStates Webby & Vimeo Awards

DreamStates has been Shortlisted in the Series category for the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards. The series is currently listed on the Vimeo Festival + Awards website with 11 other Series. From April 17-30, Vimeo is inviting the public to watch the Shortlisted videos and vote for their favorites. The 5 finalists for each category will be announced on June 1, with the winning Series announced at the Vimeo Awards show in New York on June 7.

Help us win a Vimeo Award by voting for DreamStates everyday until 4/30. You can vote for DreamStates here: https://vimeo.com/awards/vote/series

DreamStates was selected as an Official Honoree of the 16th Annual Webby Awards in Online Film and Video – Animation category. In recognition of the exceptional quality of animation work completed for the series, the Webby Awards has acknowledged DreamStates as an Official Honoree, alongside the Nominees and Winners. With nearly 10,000 entries received by the Webby Awards from all 50 US states and over 60 countries, the Official Honoree distinction is only awarded to work entered that exhibits remarkable achievement. You can see DreamStates listed along with the other Webby Awards Animation Category Official Honorees here: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?season=16

Watch all the DreamStates Episodes @ option-g.com

New (Old) Logo

When option-g first started, a variation of this logo was essentially our logo. It has been updated and put back into action! A lot of people ask me what option-g means. When you type the “option” key and the “g” key at the same time, you get the copyright symbol ©. (at least on a mac you do). It has nothing to do with my name (Cole Gerst) which obviously has a G in it..and a C for that matter. That is actually just coincidence. I started using the copyright symbol as my personal logo really big in a sort of in a tongue-in-cheek, anti-establishment way. I was starting to do a lot of work that had so much legal copy and disclaimers etc. that it was taking up precious design space. I made some business cards with giant © symbols on them and the name came from that. The new logo is a play on the copyright symbol, but adding the subtle touch to make it now a big G with a little C in it for my initials as I try to co-brand myself as an artist along with my design work.

Option-G for Stampa

i just finished a series of prints for Stampa, a limited edition (by time not number) gallery of archival prints. Check them out.

New Painting & New Blog

I’ve tried blogging several times before and I just can’t find the time to keep it up. Here I go again!

This is a new painting I recently finished entitled “Flowers”. I have been doing alot of work for other people this year and I haven’t had the time to do much original work. I’ve been sketching on some new ideas for 2012 but this piece sort of goes along with the Turf Wars series I did a few years back.