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MOCHIMAD made CNN with La Grande Bebe

mRICHARDS — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:23:22 +0000

On September 15, Sue Lott and Matthew Richards of MOCHIMAD traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan to join a team of artists supporting Jonathan Haner and Teresa Holmberg in Haner’s entry for the world’s largest art competition, the Grand Rapids ArtPrize. The team built the world’s largest doll, La Grand Bébé—a 72-foot tall soft sculpture made of industrial plastic tarp and polystyrene foam. Sue Lott provided project management while Holmberg, still in Sweden, watched the project’s progress via Internet. Holmberg flew in for the final day of the build to stay through opening day at ArtPrize.

Thanks to Grand Rapids native, Jen Walsh, news media leader CNN took great interest and broadcasted ongoing reports on the big baby’s progress. Matthew Richards’ and Sue Lott’s photography was emailed to Holmberg as the events unfolded and published with each CNN report.

The Grand Rapids ArtPrize awards a grand prize of $250,000 and the winner is decided by popular vote. The city-wide competition is the first of its kind and runs from September 23 to October 10. We’ll be posting more as ArtPrize continues to catch the world’s attention.

World’s Largest Baby at World’s Largest Art competition

Worlds Largest Baby – part 2

World’s Largest Baby – Part 3

The Baby is Up!

Artprize Puts Grand Rapids On the Map…Again

World’s Largest Baby – Day 3 – Part 1

World’s Largest Baby – Day 3 – Part 2

World’s Largest Baby – Day 3 – End of day

World’s Largest Baby Day 4 – It Has A Head!

The World’s Largest Baby – Why?

The Worlds Largest Baby – Day 5 – So Close…

The World’s Largest Baby Releases Some Baggage On The Eve of…

Additional photo work was performed during the build by the project’s official photo documentarian, Emily Jones. It and continuing photo documentation will be released after ArtPrize has concluded.

The Craigslist Stimulus Plan

mRICHARDS — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:31:13 +0000

Craigslist can really be a circus of laughs when scanning job postings in the Art/Design/Media section. You will find scads of potential employers looking for complicated work that takes dozens upon dozens of hours to complete, for 8 bucks and hour or a whopping flat rate of $150. The temptation for me is to laugh and point, but what the H is really going on when business people completely fail to understand that goods and services cost money? Have they not paid vendors for supplies, attorneys for contracts or CPAs for tax filings? Don’t said business people want others to pay them for their goods and services?

My initial urge to howl at those unbelievable postings is always overtaken by offense. Did professionals like myself go to college and spend years cutting our teeth in the industry to be offered what wouldn’t cover the cost of a transit pass in most big cities? Judging from the responses peppered throughout the job listings, people like me are NOT laughing. The screenshot I’ve embedded here is the most gentle response to the lowball job posters I’ve EVER seen on Craigslist.

Honestly, Craigslist job posters, stimulate the economy by paying what goods and services actually cost.

Luder Album Cover Design

mRICHARDS — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:31:28 +0000

Sonoluminescence, the upcoming new album by Luder, is slated for release early this fall. We had the pleasure of providing the concept, the photography and the graphic design.

Best of Detroit

mRICHARDS — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:13:47 +0000

Real Detroit Weekly’s ‘Best of Detroit’ issue has hit the stands, featuring beautiful cover art by our friend Kevin O’Rourke.

Real Detroit Weekly also named him ‘Best Cover Artist‘ in recognition for the work he’s done since living in Detroit.

Check out our shot of Kevin used for the feature in print and on the interweb.

Our previous post shows more pictures from that portrait session.

Kevin O’Rourke

mRICHARDS — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:31:34 +0000

We recently had the pleasure of photographing our good friend, Kevin O’Rourke.

Look for his feature in the upcoming issue of Real Detroit Weekly.

Good Samaritan Hospital Brochure

mRICHARDS — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:45:48 +0000

Cover and 4 example spreads

Good Samaritan Hospital is part of Advocate Health Care, the largest health care organization in Illinois. It is also the second largest employer in the state of Illinois with 25,000 associates. Would you believe it’s a not-for-profit organization? That it is.

To help educate the community about Advocate Health Care’s commitment to only the best in medical care and technology, this saddle-stitched brochure contains 28 pages describing Good Samaritan Hospital’s capabilities.

Sprich Group Web Site

sLOTT — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:50:41 +0000

Today MOCHIMAD and Nerd Swarm LLC are pleased to announce the official launch of The Sprich Group web site for Realtor and golf enthusiast, Tom Sprich, of Keller Williams Realty in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Tom Sprich is one of the leading Realtors in the West Michigan residential housing market and needed a modern web presence with dynamic, built-in capabilities for easy updates and changes. To accomplish this, we built the site entirely in the WordPress platform, which uses powerful and fast-loading CSS coding in a PHP framework. WordPress is known the world over as a blogging platform, yet when you view the site, you will not recognize it as a blog.

The Sprich Group site has a built-in content management system that allows Tom Sprich to create and manage pages, media content, blog posts and navigation. He can bring house hunters the latest advice on the market, provide up-to-date listings, share a video on home improvement, or even recommend a good recipe. This kind of usability and control for the site owner, combined with clean CSS design, translates into a more useful experience for the visitor.

We love building dynamic and search-engine-friendly web sites in WordPress. Contact us to find out why.