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Hipstamatic iPhone App

Our new iPhone app, Hipstamatic, has been released and is now available on the App Store! The Hipstamatic brings back the unpredictable fun, beauty, look, and feel of old plastic toy cameras of the past.

Learn more on the Hipstamatic website, or buy it on the App Store.

Digital photography never looked so analog!

Posted Dec 15 2009 // digg // more news »

Feeling Fine in Oh-Nine

It's a Synthetic retrospective -- here's the best of 2008 with Synthetic:

[1] Featured in Print's Regional Design Annual with Morning Issue One and Self Release 01
[2] Helped launch VEAUX: Fresh Talent Market
[3] Rocked out nowHERE 2008 with the UWSP kids in Wisco

Heres to a wonderful 09,
Buck and Horse

Posted Jan 5 2009 // digg // more news »

UPDATES!

It has been a long while coming, but we finally got around to updating our site with new work, more background tales from behind the walls of synthetic's secret hideout, and a new system for categorizing our work. Stay tuned for more this fall.

Posted Aug 26 2008 // digg // more news »

Get the meat while it's hot

Synthetic just finished development and launched VEAUX - Fresh Talent Market today. VEAUX is an online talent market connecting freshly cut emerging artists with the ravenous and picky art buyers they need.

Check it out at veaux.org, and create an artist or buyer account today. Accounts are free for the first three months!

Posted Jul 15 2008 // digg // more news »

hey ya'll

Say hello to the newest unpaid member of the synthetic family, our summer intern, JE Pinkerton. James will be joining the good folks in Chicago setting type, scrubbing toilets and fetching coffee. Send him your love.

Posted Jun 24 2008 // digg // more news »

Out from the Bat Cave

The Synthetic boys (whom today are known as Buck and Horse) have emerged from their wintry doldrums with renewed hope for warmer weather in the months ahead. But what capers have our fearless design beasts been up to in the last few snowy midwestern months?

Why, designing and building a website for The Claunch, laying the groundwork for an artist-networking web application, and helping the kids over in Wisconsin rock a design conference with our friend Sasquatch (and all his friends on Facebook, too).

Stay tuned for the next thrilling episode in the Gnarly Adventures of Buck and Horse, when they announce the details of Morning Issue Two...

Posted Apr 16 2008 // digg // more news »

SWANK GOODS NOW AVAILABLE

Synthetic's online shop Undone is now live. Be sure to check out the swank showroom and get ready to experience online shopping like never before.

Posted Dec 17 2007 // digg // more news »

Happy Morning Everybody

So our zinebook is finally out. For those of you that weren't lucky enough to be at the release party in Chicago, we have updated the MORNING site with event videos, photos, artist info and a press area.

Please enjoy with caution. The awesomeness may be to much to ingest at once.

Posted Nov 21 2007 // digg // more news »

Zine+Gallery Joy

Synthetic is doing two super-cool ultra-fun projects this fall: the inaugural issue of Morning and the latest Notice gallery exhibition. And guess what? You can be a part of both of them! Yippee hooray!

The theme for this issue of Morning is "Look what you made me do," and art, writing, audio, and motion/video are all accepted submission formats. And Notice will be a poster show titled "Ordinary Occupant."

So get clicky click clicking on over to morning.synth.tc and notice.synth.tc for all the juicy sweaty details.

Posted Aug 23 2007 // digg // more news »

Takin' Pictures

In a collaboration with Susan Brown, Synthetic has created an audio+motion piece for the latest issue of Born. It was just released last week, so make sure and check out all the goodies at bornmag.com.

Posted Aug 15 2007 // digg // more news »

self release 5+6

Keep a weather eye on synth.tc for the next couple weeks, as our next monthly prints are coming out soon! This month's theme is 'The Most Preventable' and deals with some very interesting social issues. Oooh... exciting!

Also, don't forget that the first five prints every month are completely, inescapably, and irrevocably free of charge. You don't even have to pay for shipping, you lucky dogs! We're talking about pure, hot off the screens, rock-and-roll-all-night-long love delivered to your door, just because we love you.

So maybe now is the perfect time to sign your allegiance away to Synthetic so you'll get an email as soon as the prints are available.

Posted May 15 2007 // digg // more news »

self release

Our Spring 2007 promo is now available. Get yours today (though we won't tell you how... mwa ha ha!)

Posted Apr 1 2007 // digg // more news »

save as - nowHERE 2007

Lucas and Ryan helped the first annual Alumni Save As Exhibition come to fruition during nowHERE 2007 in Stevens Point, WI.

Thanks to all those who participated this year: Jedd Flanscha, Erin O'Connor, Mike Gehrman, Jake Grill, Grapa, Mario Estrada, Danielle Moore, Steve Vogel, Tara Vojta, and Amy Rabas!

Posted Feb 26 2007 // digg // more news »

downtown saint paul

synthetic now has a new satellite location, in saint paul, minnesota. this location will be run by ryan, and there will be fresh donuts every day.

Posted Dec 1 2006 // digg // more news »

A Synthetic Art Show

on display at the buzz co in chicago. silk screen prints on birch panels.

more info here

Posted Nov 9 2006 // digg // more news »

Lucas in Cut & Paste

an iron-chef style live design competition. lucas made it into the semi-finals.

more info here

Posted Nov 6 2006 // digg // more news »

we care about social issues

we want to make the world a better place where everyone can live healthful and enjoyable lives.

we are advocates, movers, and shakers; seeking justice and equality for those who have been exploited and disadvantaged.

Notice gallery exhibitions for a change notice.synth.tc

pop//change

we care about helping others

we like little people. (not little in size, but little in scale.) we recognize that often the smallest voices are the most important.

we have done work for local bands, non-profits, and helped out friends with personal projects. good design doesn't need to be expensive - but it does need to be intelligent.

Self Release monthly print love selfrelease.synth.tc

raw//love

we value humility & elegance

it would be an oxymoron declare our humility, but we can say that we value this quality greatly.

we also love simple and elegant solutions to visual problems, and always search for the clearest yet deepest; most rich yet most elegant; modest and simple solution to the design problems we are faced with each day.

Morning the simplest zine morning.synth.tc

simple//modest

we are friends with our planet

we care about trees. and resources. and energy. and we strive to keep that in mind with every project we begin.

it is the nature of print design that consumables are used, but we strive to use processes which are as nice to our non-human friends as possible.

relation//eco

we communicate silently

we work to create design that is cross-cultural and beyond the boundaries of language.

we are intrigued by the amazing sophistication and detail included in simple international airport signage. replacing written language with universally recognized symbols is an amazing accomplishment.

global//universal

we listen, then contemplate

we are observers. sponges. we are amazed by the peculiarities of our world, it's social systems, and culture.

we believe that good conversation only occurs if you listen, and if you are attentive you will learn things that you could never expect.

saturate//smart