New Dave Arnold portfolio website

Dave Arnold, one of the co-founders of The Emporium Gallery, has launched a new portfolio website. Switzerland handled the design, development and communications for the site. Check it out here. Thanks, Ben Pobjoy

Switzerland does some post-production work on Polite Company's 'Inveigh' video for The Bronx

We recently had the opportunity to 'grade' Polite Company's 'Inveigh' video for The Bronx. We're huge fans of the band so it was a real privilege to contribute to this project. You can see the video below;

THE BRONX - INVEIGH from Jamie-James Medina on Vimeo.

If you don't know The Bronx, do yourself a favor and check them out here.You'll thank us, Ben Pobjoy

Switzerland designs a poster for folk legend Pete Seeger

Switzerland recently collaborated with photographer Jamie-James Medina (of Polite Company) and illustrator Dave Arnold to design a poster for Pete Seeger's 90th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden. A lot of you have inquired about the poster so we decided to post it. Needless to say it was an absolute honor to design a poster for Pete Seeger, a folk legend- made a million times more amazing given that Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Tom Morello, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson and a ton of others played the show. The poster was printed in a limited capacity with each copy signed by Seeger himself. If I'm not mistaken all the performers received a copy of the signed poster with the remaining posters being auctioned for Seeger's Clearwater charity. We got word that we're going to receive some signed posters so we're thrilled. Hope you like it, Ben Pobjoy

New Switzerland CS promotional video

Switzerland CS has recently expanded its lines of service by offering a multimedia production service. So, we've created a new Switzerland CS promotional video that has been integrated into our website to showcase these new abilities. You can see the animated video here. The video's music is courtesy of Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains- one of our favorite bands. To hear music from Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains click here. Enjoy, Ben Pobjoy

MuchMusic interview with Ben Pobjoy now online

You can watch the segment on Ben Pobjoy for their 'Confessions' program here.

Switzerland CS website has been updated!

We're happy to announce that the Switzerland CS website has been updated with a ton of new portfolio work. you can see the website here. Enjoy, Ben Pobjoy

Switzerland CS creates film titles for Polite Company's Sanza Hanza

Polite Company recently hired Switzerland CS to design the film titles for Sanza Hanza, their production company's debut short documentary. Sanza Hanza, directed by Nadia Hallgren and produced by Jamie-James Medina, made its Canadian premiere at the Emporium Gallery last fall. It is to premiere at Slamdance and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival this month before continuing its global travels on the film festival circuit. Described by Morgan Spurlock, director of both Super Size Me and Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, as a "scary and moving. A beautiful film", we could not agree more nor be more pleased to have been a part of such a great project! To learn more about Sanza Hanza click here. Enjoy, Ben Pobjoy

We're looking for interns!

We're looking for interns that live in Montreal. Here's the deal- we run Switzerland CS, a creative services firm that principally works in the areas of Art Direction and Graphic Design, Branding and Identity, Creative Direction and Consultancy, and Marketing and Communications. We work for clients around the globe on fun, creative projects. We also maintain this ol' blog.

In addition to Switzerland CS, we run the The Emporium Gallery, an art gallery in the St. Henri neighborhood of Montreal. The gallery has over 10 exhibitions booked for 2008.

We also run Red Tree, a producer of web based software applications. PAS, our first software application, is going to market in September.

On top of that, Shawn Butchart is a producer and I'm a photographer. There's tons of work associated with Shawn's production work and my photography.

Our loft office in Montreal is the hub of all our ventures. It's a fun, busy place. It's chock full of tunes and has all the lattes and Coca Cola you can drink. You can click the image above to check out our work space.

We're looking for interns that are studying design, marketing, communications, advertising or business. However, we work in so many lines of business that interns will be exposed to a slew of interesting work- too much to summarize. And, we're not assholes, so we guarantee a fun but hectic time. We also believe in inclusion and look forward to including interns in creative decision making.

Applicants should be creative, highly motivated, have strong communication skills and have an absolute passion for the arts.

Why apply? Well, you'll get a hell of a lot of experience, work on interesting projects, meet all the awesome musicians and visual artists that swing by our office, get a ton of free stuff and free access to heaps of concerts and events. And, if you knock our socks off, we'll hire you.

Interested? Email info@switzerlandcs.com and send us your CV. Thanks, Ben Pobjoy

The Emporium Gallery website now online!

Switzerland CS is proud to announce the launch of the Emporium Gallery Website! While we run Switzerland CS, both Shawn and I, along with visual artist Dave Arnold, founded The Emporium Gallery to promote the artists we love.

We've booked a heap of exciting exhibitions for 2008 so check the Emporium Gallery website here. to learn more. Spread the word! Thanks, Ben Pobjoy

Back in Black

The new Switzerland CS website is finally online! It's been five months in the making but worth all the hard work. We built the website in the small gaps of available free time that existed in between projects and worked on it in Montreal, Toronto, Mexico and Australia (in offices, cars, airports and airplanes). We're total rolling stones these days and the way the website was built is reflective of this.

We're thankful to everyone that worked with us on the site- Dave Arnold (www.davegonewild.com) contributed some illustrations, Noah Earle (www.mynameisearle.com) helped out with trouble shooting with regards to development, Jessica Ianni scrutinized content and Luke Dyms provided us with some photographs of us in Australia (which unfortunately did not make it onto the website). We did, however, use one of Dyms' photographs above.

Thanks to Scott at the Storyboard Label, Andrew of Quest For Fire, Nina at Vice Records, Johnny at More Proof and Enrique at Paper Bag Records for providing us with awesome music for this month's Swiss Audio Player.

So, why blog? Switzerland's blog is intended to act as a unique cultural portal for site visitors to learn about the ideas, artists, thinkers, people and events that inspire, entertain or provoke thought within us, Switzerland's Creative Directors. The truth is that we're friends with a bunch of interesting, creative people that are prolific and, we want to share their works and ideas with you. We intend to update this blog a few times a week so check back often for some 'good reading'. Thanks, Switzerland CS.