Believeland

As Cleveland prepared for the Republican National Convention, we felt it was important to revitalize the Believeland murals and celebrate local pride and identity in the wake of Cleveland's NBA Championship. Believeland III was specifically designed for Cleveland's RNC guests and was quickly embraced on social media and featured on national news and political channels.

Following the RNC, the murals continued to be a popular backdrop for social media profiles, wedding photography, and was also prominently featured in the Cleveland Cavaliers' 80's Night player intro video, and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's music video for Coming Home. With coverage from local media channels, we promised to return with a baseball mural if the Cleveland Indians could continue their winning ways. They did, and our Roll Tribe mural caught the attention of Major League Baseball, prompting our opportunity to create the Rally Together mural for MLB's American League Championship Series.

Ordinary Superheroes

Mac was commissioned to create this chalk mural for SparkSpace’s offices and co-work space in Columbus, Ohio. The theme of the month was “Ordinary Superheroes.” Make conceived of and designed the mural on site, illustrating it freehand, and completed the mural in 6 hours.

The Ordinary Superheroes chalk mural was beloved by staff and visitors, and served as a popular backdrop for corporate visits and special events.

5th Street Arcades

5th Street Arcades needed a mural that could engage passersby and bring people inside, so Mac created Kaleidoscope Garden as an interactive painting with colors and shapes with shift with changes in light and perspective. It is an iconic part of 5th Street Arcades, and a frequent inspiration for selfies and children playing. Business has boomed at 5th Street Arcades since Kaleidoscope Garden was installed in 2016. If you visit it, take a selfie, follow @artxlovellc (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn), post the picture and tag #kaleidoscopegarden you will automatically entered for a chance to win one of Mac’s Kaleidoscope Bloom paintings.

Water Taxi

Cleveland Metroparks engaged Art x Love to create a mural wall that would shield construction of the new water taxi station on Cleveland’s Flats East Bank. The mural needed to reinforce the brand, raise awareness of the water taxi, and provide an aesthetically pleasing distraction from ongoing construction.

Development of the Water Taxi mural began in October of 2015, and construction finished a year ahead of schedule due to unseasonable warmth. Since the mural was no longer needed, we volunteered it as a public art solution for Edgewater Park, which was beginning to show signs of its age.

The Water Taxi mural was created as one continuous image across 32 separate 4 ft. x 8 ft. panels that would connect to form a circle. Key panels of the mural were disassembled for display across Edgewater Park.

Following installation, public feedback was highly positive and usage of the park increased annually, with many residents and new visitors expressing their appreciation of the vibrant artwork. In the years since, Edgewater Park has grown dramatically with a world-class beachfront recreation center and performance space.

Advance Ohio

Northeast Ohio Media Group needed a new name, identity, positioning statement, brand guidelines, website collateral, and multimedia templates to do justice to their cutting edge digital sales platform. Art x Love created all of it in one month to meet an aggressive new year launch schedule. The new brand communications arrived on time and have been embraced internally and externally with greater recognition and improved sales across digital platforms.

Woman Cards

Art x Love was engaged to create a Woman Card for Aubrey Montgomery, the President & Principal of Rittenhouse Political Partners, as a birthday gift and marketing asset.

Following the positive reception to Aubrey’s card, we created Woman Cards for each member of the Rittenhouse team, as well as their holiday card.

The Woman Cards were created by Zach and Zeb Wahl, and is available to purchase at thewomancards.com

Solstice (Was)

This two-piece residential commission was specifically designed for the meditation and music room of the client’s house. Each painting was richly layered with the colors, signals, and textures to inspire a great sense of peace, excitement, and discovery in the viewer.

The Solstice paintings began with a homework assignment for the client, to more clearly understand to colors, energies, and textures that best resonated with them. Based on their input, Mac began developing rich layers of oil paint to play with.

No brushes were used in the creation of these paintings, which lends a degree of mystery and tension in the mark-making and exposed layers beneath the surface. Solstice is intended to reflect the internal and external seasons of our summer and winter exchange.

Club Treier

A private bar suite design inspired by the 1920’s and featuring a double-sandblasted mirror, vintage menu, and coasters. The design is a nod to the Great Gatsby and includes several touches in honor of family and friends.

Simplecare

Simplecare is a white-label mobile, desktop, and tablet application that was designed for Akron General's patients, health centers, and medical professionals to track and incentivize adherence to recovery and wellness programs. We created the strategy, positioning, and design system in collaboration with a new product development team at Akron General. Once complete, they moved forward with their own digital developer to create the application that went to market for testing.

Westfield Waves

Westfield Bank's executive leaders met for a strategic retreat to discuss the interests and aspirations that would define the bank's future plans for growth and innovation. One executive saved the post-its from that strategic summit and commissioned a painting that would capture this landmark moment in the bank's history. The original post-its were used to create the foundation of the painting, which was then developed using repeated text from the source material. The final painting is entirely composed of marks made from the words, thoughts, and ideas expressed during the strategic summit. The finished painting was temporarily displayed in Westfield Bank's Cuyahoga Falls branch, and now permanently resides in the patron's home. To this day, it inspires fresh points for recognition and revelation, capturing the bold and exciting spirit that marked the occasion.

Awesometown II

A client commissioned me to create a sequel to my Awesometown holographic painting, only to realize several weeks later that they wanted a different painting from the same series of work. Awesometown II was for shelved for several months to focus on the new work.

The following year, we moved to Ohio and I completed the painting as my first entry for the Akron Art Prize, which was prominently displayed at the Red Door Gallery, which sadly is no longer in existence. Awesometown II was later donated to the Boys & Girls Club of the Western Reserve and sold at auction to raise funds in support of their efforts.

Believeland II

Following the success of the first Believeland chalk murals, Wieden+Kennedy selected the location for Nike's Together ad campaign to celebrate the return of Lebron James to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Do to copyright, they had to erase our original murals for the shoot and asked us to return to restore the murals to their original glory. Believeland II represents the second wave of chalk murals for Cleveland's Historic Warehouse and Flats Districts. They were quickly embraced and have become a popular backdrop for social media profiles, wedding photos, tourism brochures, and music videos. We returned to spruce things up before the RNC with Believeland III.