What made you decide to close the sites Designgraphik, TrueisTrue and Submethod, which were on line from 1998 and 2002, and include them into a book and a CD-ROM? What was the aim(s) of this try?

Basically it was just time to take them down, for many reasons. Some of the earlier reasons were due to the cost of keeping them online because of the high traffic to these sites. We also got tired of people thinking we were JUST web designers all because we published so much work online. When in fact basically the number of all the client web work we have done in the 2+ years, can be counted on one hand, and our print work would take quite a few hands to count it all on. It was nice having that work up for sure, because it did bring in a lot of client work. At the same time, we felt it was just time to move on, end it, and start in a new direction.

Putting it all on a cd and a book was basically to give the people who enjoyed it insight to why we made the work, and the ideas behind them. Being it was always web based artwork, and done very offbeat from the normal web path, they never had much explanation to them, but there is a lot to be told about these projects. This book was able to do that and archive them in a proper format.

The sites are now off line, and the book and CD-ROM are in front of you as tangible things. How do you feel about this now? Are you satisfied? What kind of reactions have you received so far?

We are very happy with taking all our early personal work and putting it into one tangible format. There is years worth of projects, ideas, blood, sweat and tears contained in the One package. Words can’t begin to explain what it means to us. The book alone took us a year to put together, concept, organize, write and produce. The response so far as been really positive. That positive response makes us feel that we are going in the right direction, and will continue to push the products in the right directions.

It is possible to think that temporarily took down a site means you loose a place or function that allows you to present your portfolio. Do you think this point is “a minus” affect for you?

This was also another GOOD reason to close these sites, was to point the focus of our actually straight forward portfolio at the WeWorkForThem site. Having basically 5 divisions / websites at one time, it was hard to get people to understand where to go to actually hire us! So that’s one reason we started to make our personal sites similar, less chaotic, and direct commercial work for hire to the portfolio shown at WeWorkForThem. We are always still posting new personal work on TrueisTrue and Designgraphik and will continue to work on them as long as we can find the time to.

Will “Two” come after “One”? Although, you might not close existing sites like this time, would you like to show your thoughts and projects through books or CD-ROMs, too?

Yes, there will be a Two, but when, only the one above knows. Yeah, we have already started to look into DVD for our next medium to produce for, for now, the web has about 0% interest to us because we did that for so long and we don’t like to stay in one area for too long or get too comfortable. Spending 4 years publishing the main majority of our personal work into that medium, is enough for us for sometime now. There is way too many mediums and ideas to explore outside of a browser based internet work to stay stuck there. So that is why you see a lot of other types of projects in our personal sites now.

How would you like to expand your field in the future?

We are constantly doing this everyday, we work monthly in basically every medium: Typefaces, logos, print, branding, DVD, web, print, concepts, 3d, traditional art, the list just keeps on going and going. And we like that it keeps going and growing. If not, you get into a pattern and it gets stale. If we wanted a patterned life, we would work at textile factories.

WeWorkForThem “One”
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