Back to Schoudal

Across the country it's back-to-school season and that means it's time for a blowout savings-a-bration! Send the kids off on their first day with a full supply Pinsetter buttons and a new CP logo shirt. Get ready for that lecture-heavy class with a pack of Field Notes. Or get that dorm room looking cool with any number of our totally unique posters. Whatever you're looking for, stock up on all your favorite Coudal products. Act now and receive a 15% discount on everything we carry throughout the store! From Jewelboxing to Lower Case Tees, it's all here at the Coudal Supercenter, just off I-90, across from the Middletown Mall! Use coupon code "BACK2SCHOUDAL" for storewide 15% savings.

No Game No Plot

The Breeders’
“Walk it Off”

After stumbling into a lifetime-dream-fulfilling chance to direct a music video for indie-rock legends The Breeders, SD and BB came up with a concept for the song "Walk It Off" from the band's fantastic new album Mountain Battles. But wanting to make things extra-complicated, they decided to turn a fairly simple plot into an interactive, multiple-perspective, experimental experience.

The Field-Tested Books Book

Location, Location, Location

Announcing our biggest, best edition of Field-Tested Books yet. We looked over the shoulders of lots of smart people while they read lots of interesting books in lots of familiar and unfamiliar places and now you can too. All the Field Tests from this new collection and previous years are online. Plus, we've created a sweet, new, limited-edition poster with Spike Press and we're totally excited to say that the first-edition of The Field-Tested Books Book, a paperback containing 143 selected reviews, is also available for purchase. We'll be making a donation to First Book for every one we sell, so order a book for yourself and help us buy a truckload of new books for underprivileged kids. The First-Editions are shipping now. Buy one today we'll ship it today.

News: Thanks to everyone who came to our recent live Field-Tested Readings, in Chicago and New York City.

Grey Skies Are Gonna Clear Up

Tips For Tough Times

As a public service, Steve Delahoyde and our pals from Schadenfreude present a new series of handy tips for Surviving The New Depression. Get happy.

Films About Hand-Made Posters

Screening Documentaries

The Beginning and End Are Up To You, is our mini-documentary about John Solimine who created the limited-edition poster for Field Tested Books 2008.

For our first summer reading feature we asked Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine to design and hand-screen a limited run of posters. We visited Jay and Mat Daly at the Bird Machine Shop and we can tell you that the whole thing is refreshingly analog and deliciously slow. Check 6 Colors, 1,800 Pulls and 2 Dogs. The next Field-Tested Poster was created by Dan and Mike of Aesthetic Apparatus. Steve buzzed up to The Twin Cities for a visit and that resulted in Found & Reused.

Museum Of Online Museums

Summer at The MoOM

Tons of new listings and exhibits have been posted for the summer at our Museum of Online Museums. The MoOM was featured on All Things Considered and in the NY Times. It was also selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites and was discussed on a recent episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Consider joining our Museum Board, a subscription comes with a coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of cultural institutions.

A CP Film In Five Parts

Laboratory Conditions

While we were in Los Alamos, New Mexico, looking for locations for one film project, we discovered a lot more about the town and its people than we bargained for. So we made a different film and called it Laboratory Conditions. It's being shown here in five pieces and is also available on DVD.

Heather Is The New Black

The Tee

We have made tee shirts for a variety of projects but until now we have never made a simple Coudal Partners shirt. And this one is about as simple as it gets. A tee, perfectly constructed tee from a sweet new blend with just our "Crois" logo on the front. That's it.

How Do You Spell Courage?

Inaction Heroes

For the proper effect, check the trailer first and then please take a few minutes (eleven actually) to watch our short feature film about words, pictures and bravery, Copy Goes Here. In case you missed it, here's what our home page looked like when we debuted the movie.

An SD Film Regrets

Passing Fancy

From JC's talk at Seed Conference 3. If you're at all like us and are better suited for starting things than you are for finishing them, you ought to pay attention to the fifth film in Steve's "Regrets" series, Hobbies.

Layer Tennis The Final Fiasco

Forth and Back

It was a long, amazing Layer Tennis Season, relive it here while we start planning the next one. The matches were presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 , the weapon of choice for creative people and Layer Tennis players everywhere. The project has just been shortlisted for Cannes Lions in two categories, "Best Use of Internet/New Media" and "Business Products & Services." Winners are announced Wednesday.

Other recent features are listed on Page Two.

Fresh Signals

Yet another travel-related link for today. A Motorbike Adventure is a gorgeous photographic journal of a trip across India by motorbike. se-yesterday

Lovely, the plastic bottle lamp ms-yesterday

Elderly people upset at 'elderly people' road signs. Non-jumping deer are likely the next to complain. sd-yesterday

Skip the network babble, constant interruptions and endless weepy crowd shots tonight and watch the DNC's video feed (still some crowd shots, but not nearly as often nor as lengthy). sd-yesterday

Bansky commemorates Katrina. Via Gawker. ms-yesterday

"The actors don't swear like sailors with Tourette's syndrome. Our students do." A teacher on Movies Set in Public Schools. sd-yesterday

"She rolled down her window and asked if it was open, then looked heartbroken when told that it wasn't." Sioux City is maybe a little too excited about their new Olive Garden. Via Cynical-C. sd-yesterday

Great work from photographer Aldo Sperber ms-yesterday

For Ella, for whom this is a truly magic bus. Yes, we can watch it AGAIN: the Westfalia VERDIER solar vehicle. se-yesterday

For the MS salt and pepper collection, toilets. dw-yesterday

Quantas was always my favourite airline when I was a kid, and they're impressing me still with the new Marc Newson-designed cabins for their Airbus A380. Most details are subtle and highly considered, which is even more important in the "mini-world" of an aircraft. se-yesterday

Perfect for a camping/boating trip, Kahuna. dw-yesterday

Chicago's 14th annual Slaughterhouse scooter rally kicks off tonight, Can you find BB in the background of this Fox morning news report? (Hint: he's the only one wearing a helmet). cp-yesterday

The House Vote, "a daily ballot on furnishings, architecture, and residential design." Via Remodelista. sd-yesterday

Posted without comment: Sheep Stomach Lamp Shades. sd-yesterday

Favorite Signatures: From Ginsberg to Sedaris, writers talk about their most treasured signed copies of books. sd-yesterday

For BB. With reviews being posted of the long-awaited Nikon D90 and the upcoming Canon 50D, I was forced to spend a few hours online last night fantasizing about new cameras. se-yesterday

I can't imagine how long it took to get these shots so perfectly aligned. The very cool Alphabet Truck, via SwissMiss. se-yesterday

Gah, it's been in the house since June. Welcome to my worst nightmare. ms-yesterday

Hitting the road this Labor Day weekend? Here's to the road trip. ms-yesterday

Spend a little time over at illustrator Dave Perillo's Montygog's Art-O-Rama. Really great stuff. ms-yesterday

Some posters from the Nike Mexico Sportswear ad campaign. ms-yesterday

For your inspiration, a collection of blue logos. ms-yesterday

Sexy People. Only funny until someone finds some old photo of you from high school and sends it in. sd-08.27

I think I just had my moment of becoming a real Chicagoan, complete with a new found chip on my shoulder, by getting upset at this article on adjusting to life in New York: "City Fits, Eventually, for New Arrivals." sd-08.27

Liu Bolin's Camouflage series of photographs. (Xie xie, Mrs. BB.) bb-08.27

Depression Press has a nice Flickr set, Typecase. ms-08.27

Speaking of Field Notes, Bill sent us a lovely shot of Field Notes (old and new). ms-08.27

Related to the last, Uppercase is where you can pick up Field Notes when in Calgary. ms-08.27

To complement our Back To Schoudal savings-a-bration, the gorgeous Old School flickr set from Uppercase. se-08.27

Brazilian designers create the illusion of a skate bowl in the middle of a metro station to promote a street festival. se-08.27

HistoryShots, an information graphics firm featuring a shop full of history-related posters and other graphic items. This week is a good time to view their "History of the Political Parties" posters, I and II. se-08.27

Rachel Papo's Serial No. 3817131, a photo essay about eighteen year old women drafted into the Israeli army. sd-08.27

Video of the really unusual Japanese Goblin Shark. se-08.27

Is blood, a bucket of diamonds or a bunch of marijuana worth its weight in gold? The monetary density of things, via Boing Boing. se-08.27

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The Producers

Claire Zulkey
Howard Mann
Carlos Parrilla
Damien Newman
Drew Myler
Grant Hutchinson
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R.BIRD
Karen Labenz
Andrew Figgins
Mark Powell
Mike Keen
Chet Yeary II
Greg Storey
Matt Lee
Jeremy Quinn
Grant Unrau
Debbie Millman
David Demaree
Charles Adler
Paul Joyce
S.J. Barlament
Stephen Vance
Sam Potts
John Tolva
Cameron Moll
J. Thomas Lowell
Hillman Curtis
Gridiron Software
Loyd Boldman
Heidi J Nyburg
William N. Kilarjian
Mario Van der Meulen
Simon Angling
Colin Scroggins
Inline Studio
Witold Riedel
Alan Hawkins
Marko Dugonjic
Chris Bernard
Matt Mullenweg
Alexander Muse
Dan Rubin
Thomas Mackechney
Dan Cederholm
Eric Mersmann
Ben Edwards
Brian Seethaler
Lightburn
Matt Haughey
Bill Keaggy
Pierre Mai
Kevin Hamm
Andre Torrez
Greg Hoy
Issa Breibish
Drew Stauffer
Abby Urban
Christopher Ebmeyer
Jeffrey Rutzky
Robert D. Whitson

Your Name Here

the pitch

You can be an Executive Producer of our new short feature film, 72°. If you've always wanted to be a hotshot Hollywood player, or you just want to lend a hand to the project here's your chance.

A Thing We Made:
Jewelboxing

We hated the options available for custom packaging DVDs and CDs so we created a brand that gives creative professionals and hobbyists the tools to make great stuff. Here's a bit from the latest Jewelboxing weblog entry:

"Second to the wedding images, I get the most compliments on these cases." Read the entire post.

Some Other Things We Made:

Field Notes Brand "I'm not writing it down to remember it later. I'm writing it down to remember it now." A CP/DDC joint.

Pinsetter: Spell with buttons.

Limited-edition, professionally mixed and mastered, custom-designed live performances on CD. That's The Show. With partners like The Pixies and Dead Can Dance. More news soon.

Lowercase Tee: For politically and otherwise active kids.

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