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Mr. Wissell featured on Communication Arts website

Studio design director Gabe Kean featured here:
http://www.commarts.com/insights/embrace-process.html

• By Belle & Wissell on November 3, 2009
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"N" is for Newsletter

Studio Newsletter Fall 2009

• By Marq Dean on October 28, 2009
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Dog Green Productions and Belle & Wissell, Co. announce a historic partnership

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Max Lewkowicz     
646-290-6931
max@doggreenproductions.com

May 22, 2009  New York City/Seattle, Washington

Dog Green Productions and Belle & Wissell, Co. are proud to announce an
exciting partnership created for the advanced development and production of
historic media for educational facilities, museums, interpretive exhibits and visitor
centers. 
 
Belle & Wissell is an award-winning art and design studio dedicated to
groundbreaking interactive design and media storytelling installations. The studio
has worked closely with cinematic storytellers Dog Green Productions to
produce interactive media and films for the American Battle Monuments
Commission (www.abmc.gov). These state-of-the-art media projects tell the
story of D-Day, the Normandy Campaign and the Battle of Pointe du Hoc.  
 
Together, the collective team is now in production on new films and interactive
presentations for the future Pointe du Hoc interpretive center planned for the
Pointe du Hoc site in Normandy.
 
The Battle of Pointe du Hoc is the latest project. See the online version now at:
http://www.abmc.gov/pointeduhoc
 
In 2007, Max Lewkowicz, historian, founder and CEO of Dog Green
Productions wrote, produced and directed all the media and films for the
Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy.
Dog Green Productions specializes in historical-based productions and has
previously produced all the films and media for the Holocaust museums in New
York and Montreal.
 
"The goal of our new partnership is to offer a focused, single source of historical
media production which interweaves the various disciplines...film, video,
interactive presentations, historical research, still image research and document
presentation. The partnership allows for a uniform design, message, and style,
as well as powerful historic information-gathering and research resources. Belle
& Wissell and Dog Green Productions are now a unique single source for
museums and historical educational facilities to utilize in their quest for
educational excellence."
 
Max Lewkowicz
Founder and CEO 
Dog Green Productions
 
 
"With a shared passion for telling the tales of the past in new and exciting ways,
the partnership just came naturally. Both studios have a commitment to working
in close collaboration with their clients-and together have developed a
specialized creative process that is particularly suited for this type of work."
 
Gabe Kean
Founder and Design Director
Belle & Wissell, Co.
 
 
About Belle & Wissell, Co.
 
Belle & Wissell is an award-winning experience design studio that specializes in
creating new types of audience experiences--in exhibit spaces, public spaces,
and on the Web.  Founded by Gabe Kean in 2003 (formerly known as Gabe
Kean Design), the studio embraces its diverse commissions which include
complete exhibits, interactive art installations, retail environments, media kiosks,
and Web experiences. Some recent projects include a suite of interactives and
short documentary films for the new Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee,
media installations and touch-screen kiosks for the new Wing Luke Asian
Museum (a history and cultural museum in Seattle), and exhibition and integrated
media design for Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound (at Experience Music
Project in Seattle).
 
 
About Dog Green Productions
 
Dog Green Productions was founded by Max Lewkowicz, a historian and
documentarian who has won critical acclaim and numerous awards during his
long and distinguished career.  The philosophy of Dog Green Productions is
based on merging uncompromising truth with powerful creative passion.  From
the D-Day Landing Beaches in Normandy to the first Jamestown Settlement in
 Virginia, from stories of the horror of life and death in Auschwitz-Birkenau to
"Checkpoint Charlie" in Cold War Berlin, Dog Green Productions' primary focus
has always been on the historical, political, and sociological stories that have
been part of a continuously changing world.  With that mission, Dog Green
Productions (named after a sector of Omaha Beach on D-Day) has produced
countless award-winning documentary films and interactives for museums,
television networks, exhibitions and interpretive centers located in places as
varied as South Africa, France, Israel, the United Kingdom, Poland, Canada, and
Japan. 
 
The two companies plan to utilize their two main locations, New York City and
Seattle, as design, production and post-production facilities.
 
 
Contact Information
 
Dog Green Productions
51 West 81st Street, Suite 4J
New York, NY 10024
646-290-6931
www.doggreenproductions.com
 
Belle & Wissell, Co.
6014 12th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98108
206-322-7908
www.bwco.info  

• By Belle & Wissell on May 27, 2009
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Window Display & Story Kit Event Recap

Hundreds turned out for our opening event on December 13th. We've included some photos that captured this memorable occasion... Story Kits available at our Etsy store.



 

• By Belle & Wissell on December 22, 2008
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Story Kit Preview

Story Kits are now available for pre-order on Etsy:
(Order today to ensure arrival by Christmas)

Pre-order your limited-edition Story Kits today on Etsy (only 250 are available

Some images of "The Story of Belle and Wissell" Story Kit...
These will also be available at our event on December 13th.

• By Belle & Wissell on December 4, 2008
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Mr. Wissell and Belle, revealed...

"The Story of Belle and Wissell: How It All Began"
Story Kit and Window Display Unveiling Party, Saturday, 12/13 at 6pm

You're invited to a special event on Saturday, December 13th at 6pm: the first public exhibition of The Story of Belle and Wissell, featuring original illustrated characters, "Belle" and "Mr. Wissell," and the beginning of their time travel adventures.

Working closely with collaborating artists, the studio designed a one-of-a-kind, limited-edition Story Kit, which includes original Belle and Wissell artwork and artifacts, and a Window Display exhibit (in collaboration with artist Sven Sundbaum).

Contributing artists, Steven & Carmela D'Amico (creators of the "Ella" books), and live characters (Belle and Mr. Wissell) will be in attendance to greet you.

Signed limited-edition Story Kits will be available for purchase at the event.

Belle & WIssell, Co.
6014 Twelfth Ave South, Seattle, WA 98108 (in Georgetown)
206 322 7908 or visit us at: www.bwco.info


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• By Belle & Wissell on December 4, 2008
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No Meat Balls but Spaghetti Grafica

• By Marianna Rossi on September 23, 2008
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Uppercase goes Old School

UPPERCASE gallery, books & papergoods is located in the Art Central building in downtown Calgary and is pure candy for the eyes. Visit their site for old style magnetics, anatomic frogs and various paper goods.
And this fall, UPPERCASE is going old school. The "Old School" theme celebrates the aesthetics of twentieth century education through an art exhibition and companion book, as well as curated objects. It is inspired by vintage flash cards, old desks, biology class, science fairs, crayons, card catalogs, textbooks, class photos, teachers, yearbooks, lunchboxes, gym class, maps, lockers, report cards, film strips, recess, spelling, chalk... and the list goes on!

"I Will not tell lies", 10×10 fine art giclee print of a Polaroid

• By Marianna Rossi on September 23, 2008
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Georgetown

1930s view of Georgetown

It's always fun to look back at what was here before us. The Belle & Wissell studio of today occupies the same space as Manzo the Tailor (first photo below) in the Julius Horton Building. You can also see a small bit of the Julius Horton House next door. Julius' brother Dexter Horton's bank is around the corner (now Georgetown Records and Fantagraphics Books).

The Horton House, and many other buildings in these photos were removed when Interstate 5 and entrance-ramps were added to the neighborhood in the 50s. Bummer.

These photos were taken as part of the WPA (Works Progress Administration), attributed to the New Deal in the mid to late 1930s. Learn more about Georgetown history at historylink.org

• By Gabe Kean on September 4, 2008
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Harley-Davidson Museum on Wired

• By Aaron Hedquist on August 4, 2008
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