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Hipstamatic iPhone App

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

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!

Feeling Fine in Oh-Nine

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

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

UPDATES!

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

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.

Get the meat while it's hot

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

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!

hey ya'll

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

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.

Out from the Bat Cave

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

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...

SWANK GOODS NOW AVAILABLE

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

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.

Happy Morning Everybody

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

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.

Zine+Gallery Joy

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700

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.

Takin' Pictures

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700

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.

self release 5+6

Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700

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.

self release

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700

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

save as - nowHERE 2007

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800

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!

downtown saint paul

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800

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.

A Synthetic Art Show

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800

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

more info here

Lucas in Cut & Paste

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800

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

more info here