CHRIS LASTUFKA

DESIGNER CREATOR CRAFTSMAN WRITER ARTIST

ANECDOTE

From cardboard forts to formative experiences ... creation is who I am ... what I came from & where I am going! (we are all born to do something, right?)

Concept to execution, every tactile pica to every virtual pixel, each pitch to final product ... a genuine passionate nature of creation for timeless intelligently crafted design. (forever learning / growing & evolving)

Research > Observe > Hypothesize > Share > Conceptualize > Explore > Integrate > Evaluate

PSYCHOLOGY

Love the life you live, live the life you love. Bob Marley

Be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once on a while. Jean-Paul Sartre

Solving any problem is more important than being right. Milton Glaser

SOLUTION

Forged by hand and made to last. This vintage monument to craftsmanship of early America was designed for modular product variations. An ideal gift for the sophisticated modern gentlemen in your life, who appreciates the values historically inspired & genuinely designed product company, started by Taylor Pemberton in 2010.

CHALLENGE

Package the consumer product of an existing company. Maintain their market focus and professional philosophies while reimagining their present design concepts. The media of the final product will be determined by the market competition and quality consumer trust.

CAVALIER ESSENTIALS GENTLEMAN GIFT SET

SOLUTION

Collaborate with the rest of the world in an open-source publication, the human anthology of our life journeys / truths / experiences. From an opening conversation enabled by a hand delivered invitation to a web archive utilized as an information database. Ultimately, resulting in a communication of the story of earth, a journalistic publication for universal growth, written by humanity.

CHALLENGE

Articulate a thesis project combining all the design methodologies gained through a university education. Promote a proactive attitude for social and cultural change. Develop a comprehensive project illustrating how design can influence experiential communication in its global and cultural entirety.

OUR_OPEN_EPICOPEN -SOURCE PUBLICATION

SOLUTION

Our home, this delicate planet we take for granted most of the time, conservation begins and ends with consumers. To ride nature we need to understand nature, communicate sustainable morals and proactive values. Spohec provides a volunteer community of riders donating their expertise for the benefit of all the riders in Spokane, Washington.

CHALLENGE

Protect the environmental through the development of a unique non-profit volunteer organization that focuses on a specific industry. Produce new mindsets for active local ways to make positive changes, by joining together the surrounding community.

SPOHEC POP-UP SHOPREPAIR & TRAIL TEAM

SOLUTION

Formed by the structures of donors and the creative aspirations of our youthful generations. Creative Capital funds, supports, and builds careers for young adult artists with their network of resources after a grantee acceptance. Utilizing the mindset and foundations of their support system a dynamic, constructive brand formed and adapted to print & interactive exhibits focusing on expanding the collaboration between grantees.

CHALLENGE

Imagine for a moment, the perfect world where everyone lives their own dream and prospers within the communitys creativity. Focus on how creative groups interact and evolve alongside each other. Design a new identity for a non-profit organization that shares these progressive philosophies.

CREATIVE CAPITALBRANDING & IDENTITYINTERACTIVE DESIGN

SOLUTION

During his lifelong legacy of composing, Antonio Vivaldi expressed his individuality in an era widely apprehensive of his progressive future focused musical mindset. Emulating his odd persona among society through crafting 16th and 17th century Italian processes by illumination through glass half full of a bright neoclassical light. Instilling the mysterious complexities of his lifes work into a monument to the world famous concerto, the four seasons.

CHALLENGE

Craft a historical monument to an influential classical composer whose work can be seen in modern culture. Research their story and communicate the musicians personal philosophies by capturing the soul of their work among the culture of ancient eras.

ANTONIO VIVALDITHE FOUR SEASONSHANDCRAFTED ALBUM

SOLUTION

Kitsune Oyobi Okurimono (or koo!) translates to the fox and the gift. The nature and tradition of the fox in Japanese culture is a messenger to the god of rice, Inari Okami. Approaching the international sake market with a symbiotic relationship between family brewed import sake and local fine dining sushi establishments. Tradition and modernity in visual harmony join together old world craftsmanship with new world product design.

CHALLENGE

Market a new product to a presently increasing business venture. Capture the cultural and historical factors that embody the spirit of this entrepreneurial endeavor. Design an innovative concept that steps beyond the walls of current quality competition.

KOO! HOMEMADE SAKEPRODUCT & PACKAGING

SOLUTION

Inspired by the prospective visions of unifying the world under one digital media, gifting the masses who create with the unique collaborative creative business network the Korean culture is a complex organism drawing upon the strength of family and friends unified under one country. Adobe Seoul takes these cultural values and shapes them into a progressive campaign promoting growth of technology into the connected future of universal international culture.

CHALLENGE

Conceptualize and integrate the current adobe brand into the international market of Seoul, South Korea. Through a multifaceted delicate multicultural research and analysis, promote the company to the current technology market overseas.

ADOBE SYSTEMS SEOULINTERNATIONAL DESIGNMARKETING CAMPAIGN

SOLUTION

ArcTeryx is an innovative Canadian rock climbing brand focused on providing the next generation of progressive outdoor climbing equipment and apparel. Taking a conceptual approach based upon the fundamentals of climbing, the art of movement. Revolving around the act of balance applied upon friction points to complete a line. Textural elements mirror natural environment spliced with a technical industrial edge of added character.

CHALLENGE

Develop a multi-unit packaging system for a brand of activity you feel passionate towards. Utilizing the personality of the activity or brand to create a new design aesthetic to promote the company differently than their present visual persona.

ARCTERYX BIG WALLCLIMBING PACKAGING

SOLUTION

Concluding to the educated analysis of the present market being saturated by college students 21+ who drink wine socially with friends. Chipboard and silk screening have been chosen to create a unique contrast between natural and gloss materials. A tactile gnarly layered texture brings out the bold aged taste of this old vine zin.

CHALLENGE

Design an inexpensive boxed wine utilizing standard wine serving and production speculations. Determine the target audience that best fits the casual budget wine market. Focus on setting market differentiation through the breaking beyond current design trends.

GNARLY HEAD WINERYBOXED WINE PACKAGING

SOLUTION

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes, this project is aimed at bringing Marcel Prousts anecdote to life. Critical usage of intricate and intuitive user experience methods will be utilized, transforming the American River Parkway into a universally communicative journey. Connecting humans back to their formative roots within nature.

CHALLENGE

Analyze the current systems forced upon the public location of choice. Research methods of construction, test levels of communication and produce a proposal to change the wayfinding, placemaking systems and environmental graphics of the local habitat.

THE AMERICAN RIVERPARKWAY BRANDING& ENVIRONMENTALGRAPHIC DESIGN

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SOLUTION

Capturing the poetry of the urban soul, this photographic series sets an architectural perspective to life amongst spaces in our industrial ecosystem. The angles of a skyline, a forgotten corner of an alleyway preserving our history, there is a unique story of its journey alongside our own. Those hidden spaces are living a mysterious relationship with the spontaneous urban human populous.

CHALLENGE

Illustrate the story of an environment of local human habitants. Focus on the design characteristics in manmade architecture and the beauty of spaces.

THE CITY THAT SURROUNDS USPHOTOGRAPHICARCHITECTURE

SOLUTION

A glimpse into the compositional explorations in photographic studies ranging a vast spectrum of aesthetics. Included among the showcase are product landscape, portrait and abstract work from the progression of my degree. As Ansel Adams once pledged, you dont take a photograph, you make it.

CHALLENGE

Compose a digital photography series that conveys emotion, tells a story, captures a unique memory or builds interest through the use of fundamental photographic techniques. The focus of this showcase should be composition, contrast, hierarchy & aesthetic by combining talent and intelligence through the visual minds eye.

PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWCASE

SOLUTION

The visual atmosphere of his novel is an exploratory contrast between the surreal and our present realities. Construction of dimensional sculptural elements provided a bridge between reality and dream mind states. Occupied by contrasted interpretations of the process and psychology Hubert Selby Jr. brought to light in this chilling realist novel.

CHALLENGE

Research Hubert Selby Jr. and his lifelong struggles as an author in 20th century New York City. Read his novel, Requiem for a Dream and visually illustrate the psychological & sociological commentaries told by this underground literary legend.

REQUIEM FOR A DREAMVISUAL PSYCHOLOGY

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