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Wanna steal my concepts & overtake my company?

Con* Art?

My design practice has evolved over the years, and I've become overwhelmed by the desire to make everything I produce Open Source. As a result, writing is the best medium for my *Conceptual Art since it can be digitally reproduced and distributed with little to no waste.

Click here for Articles I’ve written for my Staff.

Click this link for my Inspos (which our Staff writes for each other out of love).

Open Source Ⓢ

There are so many icons we overlook daily. Opportunity likes to hide in the mundane. The glyphs and logos we notice are merely vehicles for brands, ideals, beliefs, and concepts. The mark themselves are just containers. This is why I don't believe in graphic design; I believe in doing meaningful work that a symbol or graphic can easily recall. Sometimes, graphic design is just a simple appropriation that someone never considered stealing*.

Staff Radio

Every week we spin our vinyl collection at the studio. It started off as Vinyl Vednesday, which consisted of the Staff spinning my record collection instead of streaming music. By collectively DJ'ing, we began creating intentional moments throughout the workday. Playing vinyl takes more time out of our day, but the time wasted together shapes our culture. We've had countless versions of our stereo setup, TuneTown™, and each iteration has removed the obstacles to efficiently playing, choosing, mixing, and jamming.

Wanna talk about Stuff?

Gimme a call and let’s chat. I answer every call unless I’m sleeping, on another call, or kickin’ it with my family.

“A Shorter Drive”

Featuring sample slices from Wayne Shorter’s Black Diamond (1959). After sampling the first 10 seconds, the sounds were trimmed into a drum kit. The samples were then pitched either -2, -4, or -6 to create note variations in the slices. By looping the clips, new beats were composed by offsetting the count. The new rhythm has a droning shuffle from isolating different vignettes in Shorter’s arrangement.

A base layer was recorded, creating the song’s foundation onto Track 1. Next, punchy accents were improvised onto Track 2 (don’t forget to erase all 37 bad takes that sounded weird). Then another accent onto Track 3 (maybe only 14 bad takes on this one). Finally, Track 4 is a hard pan to highlight the reverse crescendos.

Sample Source

Black Diamond
Introducing Wayne Shorter (1959)
Wayne Shorter

Gear

• OP-1

(all samples, sequences, loops, effects, and mix executed entirely on OP-1)

Origin Story

Every week we spin our vinyl collection at the studio. It started off as Vinyl Vednesday, which consisted of the Staff spinning Andrew Neyer’s record collection instead of streaming music. By collectively DJ'ing, we began creating intentional moments throughout the workday. Playing vinyl takes more time out of our day, but the time wasted together shapes our culture. We've had countless versions of our stereo setup, TuneTown™, and each iteration has removed the obstacles to efficiently playing, choosing, mixing, and jamming. Rather than each person periodically detaching from their work to find music to play on their headphones, they can quickly select a vetted LP from our genre-sorted shelves without needing their cell phone. Our Funk, Soul, Jazz, Samba, Art Pop, New Wave, Mellow, Dad Tunes, Jamz, Soundtrack, 12" Singles, Noice Noises, and Art Rock shelves are packed with gems. The shelves provide a great visual of what genres we lack and which are overflowing (hint: it's the funky roller skating Jamz).

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We also occasionally purge down the collection to make room for new additions.
Less j𝘶n𝘬, more Melba Moore, am I right?

About

Andrew Neyer is a con*conceptual Artist & Producer.

“We don’t need more stuff to love; we need less junk getting in the way.”

Read my Manifesto™

Short Story

I make products I want to own.

My products are derived from the combination of minimalism and wit.

I partner with local fabricators to Produce all my products.

Every year, the collection grows by finding new ways to interact with ordinary objects.

“My design process is centered on reimagining familiar forms to inspire a new use for ordinary objects. The process involves series of reductions until the design feels effortless.”

Long Story

In 2010, Andrew Neyer began developing products for his home in Cincinnati, OH. Two of Neyer’s first products were a 5ft tall wrist watch (Watch Clock) and a 6ft cantilevering sconce (Crane Light). After quitting his day job to work full-time as a commercial artist, he started scratching the itch to design more products. Since his background was rooted in art, he lacked formal training in product design. The absence of proper design procedure proved to be an advantage in his practice by keeping his primary focus on conceptual design.

While studying Printmaking at Maryland Institute College of Art, Neyer became obsessed with innovating new ways of experiencing art on a universal level. Andrew’s early work laid a foundation for his peculiar spin on ordinary mediums; from handmade artist books packaged as the prize inside cereal (Space Junk 2, 2008) to an interactive mural in which the viewers could pick the pockets of characters, and peruse their unique belongings (Pick-a-Pocket, 2008). Neyer went on to develop one of his most successful exhibitions, Color Me (2011-Present), with Andy J. Pizza. The collaborative project enlists the spectators of the mural to become participants by unyieldingly coloring the black and white mural, drawn by Neyer & Pizza, with 5ft tall custom markers.

As the itch to design products kept growing Andrew woke one morning to find that his one-off products had been featured on several design blogs resulting in an influx of orders. Excited by the positive response and overwhelmed by the need to make reproductions, he made the first production run out of his studio. As the orders continued to grow, so did the production batches. After exceeding the limits of in-house production capabilities, Neyer partnered with local fabrication shops to keep up with the demand.

Following the success of the Crane Light, Andrew Neyer developed a full lighting collection based on his same minimal principles. The new lineup became, Mobile Collection, a series of pendants and chandeliers to be combined in groupings for use in both commercial and residential spaces. Soon after, architects and designers began realizing the collection to transform lobbies, cafés, dining halls and open spaces of renowned restaurants, design offices, luxury hotels and boutiques around the World. Collections of products evolve as Andrew Neyer falls in love with new concepts and forms.

“A Conceptual Artist posing as a suburban dad.”