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Landscape Welcomes Ben Tear as Strategist and Programming Lead.
Compound Wonders
***TICKETS ON SALE NOW, LINKS BELOW
Beginning October 19th, DOG will host a series of four Saturday live music events focused on our collective relationship to sound, featuring performances from artists exploring acoustic folk, ambient soundscapes, and analog electronica.
Designed as a tuned environment to celebrate the diversity of sound as a medium, [E16] Compound Wonders celebrates local emerging artists and the power of making new connections through intersecting communities. Each session invites a multi-sensory, embodied experience, uncovering the liminal spaces where vibration becomes meaning.
In partnership with Studio Ahead and Western Acoustics, DOG will transform into an immersive environment that enhances every note, interaction, and shared experience.
***SCHEDULE & TICKETS***
Doors open at 7pm, performances start at 7:30pm
10/19
↳ Tickets : Kelly McFarling
$17
10/27
↳ Tickets : Chris Kallmyer
$17
11/2
↳ Tickets : Cheflee + James Wallace
$17
11/9
↳ Tickets : Chris Latina
$17
***ABOUT THE ARTISTS***
KELLY MCFARLING
Bolinas, CA Kelly McFarling grew up riding the prolific RnB radio stations and lady folk waves of Atlanta, GA in the early 90’s. This incubation translated to a songwriter anchored in melody, metaphor and potent observation. McFarling began playing original songs in the Bay Area as an adult and quickly became known for her dynamic, witty, emotional gut-punch of a live show.
She spent the next decade touring and releasing music independently; earning a devoted following as a compelling, versatile indie-folk singer-songwriter. Garnering comparisons to Laura Marling, Bonnie Raitt, and Dottie West, McFarling’s voice anchors into the power of well-crafted songs, delivered with emotion.
DOG will be hosting Kelly for her first solo, acoustic performance.
CHRIS KALLMYER
Petaluma, CA Chris Kallmyer is a musician who works in art and design. In 2021 he started Furniture Music, a studio that creates sounding home goods and research-based projects for active listeners, architectural applications, and to promote social well-being through sound.
His installations, performances, and publications has been presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, STUDIO TeatrGaleria in Warsaw, Fondation Richard in Paris, and the National Gallery of Singapore among other spaces in America and Europe.
A listening session with ambient spirituals, contemplative drones, sculptural wind chimes, and breezy field recordings pressed into vinyl. The performance will be articulated by new films by Ben Bloom. Bring your ears, lie on the floor, find your breath, lose your keys.
CHEFLEE
Oakland, CA Imari “Cheflee” Mubarak is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist from Oakland, California. Over the last decade, he’s been producing and releasing solo material, weaving together intricate, hazy psychedelia, heavy groove and surreal storytelling. His latest, the full-length odyssey Fescue June, dropped in March. A fixture of the Bay Area arts ecosystem, Cheflee’s track record includes collaborations with artists like Toro y Moi, Saba, Salami Rose Joe Louis and more.
JAMES WALLACE
Oakland, CA James Wallace is an East Coast transplant living in Oakland as a full time composer and producer. He’s involved in the neo-psychedelia and folk-rock band Skyway Man as well as the local live-scoring, ambient-experimental trio, Rewards Program. He composed the music for the cult HBO show “Joe Pera Talks With You” and has collaborated with several local musicians including Andy Cabic (Vetiver), Kelly McFarling, and Sam Doores (The Deslondes). His music and ideas combine left-field philosophies (aliens ideology / doomsday predictions) with moments of deep self-reflection carried along on a cosmic stream of progressive blues-rock, swamp boogie, and future folk.
CHRIS LATINA
San Francisco, CA “God Memories” is a collection of new recordings and live musical patchwork by Bay Area producer Article C. Inspired by the universal language of trance, the work decomposes electronic rhythm styles alongside live acoustic modeling of flute and string synthesis using analog delay and filter processors. Uprooting the tropes of dance genres, the outcome crosses aesthetics like UK garage house with outsider freeform hardcore styles.
Article C formed as a refraction of Chris Latina’s audio research & sound design documentation, reworking experiments in spectral morphology and extractive synthesis into generative dance structures (often with modular hardware and custom software). The latest iteration of the project revisits its origins, primarily focused on playing studio-live chimeras of grooving ROMpler aberrations to form rave abstractions.
Over the past decade, Latina has presented his artwork, personal research and innovation through academic / industry contexts, music festivals, and museum installations.
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ABOUT DOG
DOG is a dynamic project space exploring emergent cultural themes through an ongoing series of in-person events. An experimental, physical complement to its parent, Landscape, a brand strategy and design studio in San Francisco, CA, the events make tangible the studio’s commitment to nurturing our collective social fabric and supporting new ideas, technologies, and opportunities for cultural expression.
ABOUT LANDSCAPE
Landscape is an integrated creative studio providing brand strategy, design systems, and campaign production to clients pursuing intentional, sustainable, and influential change across a range of sectors—science, technology, social, environmental, arts, and culture.
Email dog@dogdogdog.xyz with inquiries
9600 Baud
1994 was a promethean year for the world wide web. With fewer than two thousand websites in existence — all hard-coded in html — and before the advent of consumer digital cameras or commercial image scanners, sharing images online was technically challenging and labor intensive. Launched in this pioneering internet era, Art Crimes (graffiti.org) became one of the first portals where a real-life culture was documented, digitized and made accessible to grow and proliferate online.
The exhibition’s title, 9600 Baud, refers to the connection speed of dial-up modems that early internet users relied on. The distinctive pinging and fuzzy sounds of a modem connecting over a telephone line that built excitement, signaling entry into another world. It was the soundtrack to exploring distant places, connecting far flung cultures, and a new way of discovering sights beyond one’s immediate surroundings.
To celebrate 30 years of digitizing and preserving street art online, Brett Webb, the Assistant Curator of Art Crimes, presents an exhibition featuring key archival photographs from his collection, alongside new works by a renowned group of Bay Area graffiti artists.
Opening Reception on August 23rd, from 6—9pm at 428 Waller Street.
Featuring:
Crayone (@crayone)
Defie (@anchoviesardines)
Enero
Grey (@pvc_grey)
Optimist (@optimistneverdies)
Quake
Renos (@renosoner)
Ricky Watts (@rickywatts)
Vogue (@vogue_tdk)
Curated by @spraystreetdotcom
DJ set by @bukueone
Seb Beasant, Torsa Studios
Founded in England and made in Portugal, Torsa’s focus on materiality and form sets them apart within the active apparel industry.
In the coming years, Torsa plans to expand its presence by partnering with retail locations across Europe and Asia, prioritizing quality and innovation in their upcoming collections, exploring sustainable materials, particularly Merino wool, and continuing to push the form and function of modern activewear.
Torsa approached Landscape to help bring a global perspective to their story. Shot in the streets of Oakland, California, we created a campaign that captures the space between performance and play.
See the full case study here
Bio-Engineering the Future
Synthetic biology’s emergent ability to rewrite the code of life—and, by extension, the structure of the material world around us—is about re-engineering our future.
At Landscape, we create future-forward brands that help new ventures shift perspectives, set expectations, and gain the early, essential trust and traction to lead their category.
Synthetic biology, as an emergent category, is starting to yield new possibilities and transformative results across a wide variety of applications, from medicine and chemicals to energy, agriculture, and our food system.
But as with any nascent category, Synbio companies and the category at large face several significant barriers that need to be overcome to establish awareness and scale adoption to bring benefits to the wider world.
Strategic branding can play a critical tool in achieving this.
Dust
Shot, directed, and edited by Landscape Creative Director Ben Bloom, “Dust” is an intimate look into surfing counterculture through the hands of an enigmatic contributor.
Dave Elley has been quietly shaping surfboards in Raglan, New Zealand for almost 30 years. Though his talent is widely recognized, he is seldom acknowledged. In an ego-centric industry, riddled with mediocrity and mass production, Dave is an anomaly — shaping only when inclined, not asked.
A visual portrait of person and place — “Dust” explores the delicate balance of Dave’s work within the surrounding geography.
Energy Shifts (Return to Source)
By Vivien Lee, Senior Copywriter at Landscape
Reviewed: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Career — Senior Designer
Inclusive housing, affordable food, biotech, fine art, fashion… we’re working hard to support positive social and cultural change.
You are a critical thinker and expert graphic designer. Your peers respect you, your team thrives on your consistent honesty, positivity, and insight. Your clients see you as a friend and a trusted advisor.
You obsess over typography, identities, and you’re excited about both the physical and digital worlds (and their potential). You’re learning constantly and consistently push yourself. You see your work as a reflection of yourself and are not willing to compromise on quality.
You are eager to lead projects autonomously as well as work alongside a multidisciplinary team.
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Details:
• Senior Brand + Digital Designer
• Portfolio Required (Include PDF or Link)
• Proven Experience (Likely 3+ Years)
• You Have Contemporary Identity Work in Your Portfolio
• Proven UX & Interaction Design Understanding (If Not Deep Expertise)
• Full-Time or Contract
• Motion & 3D or Illustration Skills a Plus
• US based – ideally in PST timezone. We are currently working remotely but have retained our San Francisco office.
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Apply:
careers@thisislandscape.com — Please title your email: Sr. Designer
Due to the volume of applicants we receive for postings, we will not be able to respond to everyone. A sincere thanks for both your interest and time.
Career — Junior Copywriter & Strategist
Inclusive housing, affordable food, biotech, fine art, fashion… we’re working hard to support positive social and cultural change.
You are a critical thinker with flawless grammar.
Perhaps you’re a poet, perhaps an MBA, perhaps planning your escape from the advertising world.
You obsess over current events, culture, a great name, and enjoy breaking rules.
You’re learning constantly and consistently push yourself. You see your work as a reflection of yourself and are not willing to compromise on world-class quality. You have some experience with brand messaging, campaign creation, and naming.
While this is a growth-oriented position, you are eager to lead projects autonomously as well as work alongside a multidisciplinary team.
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Details:
› Relevant communications experience (1-3 years)
› You have world-class, contemporary writing in your portfolio
› Interest in design and branding but well read broadly
› Portfolio required (Include PDF or Link)
› Advertising experience a plus
› MBA and/or brand/business strategy experience a plus
› US based – ideally in PST timezone. We are currently working remotely but have retained our San Francisco office.
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Apply:
careers@thisislandscape.com — Please title your email: Jr. Copy+Strategy
Due to the volume of applicants we receive for postings, we will not be able to respond to everyone. A sincere thanks for both your interest and time.
Career — 3D & Motion Designer
Career — Associate Creative Director
You are a design leader. Your peers respect you, your team thrives on your consistent honesty, positivity, and insight. Your clients see you as a friend and trusted advisor.
You’re friendly, hardworking, and believe in doing great work for good people. You obsess over typography, identities, and you’re excited about both the physical and digital worlds. You’re learning constantly and consistently push yourself. You think critically and see your work as a reflection of yourself. Writing comes easily and you have experience planning, scoping, and running projects of all kinds.
We’re looking for an exceptional Associate Creative Director to come work with us.
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Details:
• Associate Creative Director
• Proven Experience (Likely 5+ Years)
• You Have World-Class Identity Work in Your Portfolio
• Proven UX & Interaction Design Understanding (If Not Deep Expertise)
• Must be able to work in San Francisco
• Full Time & Long Term
• Portfolio Required (Include PDF or Link)
• Motion & 3d Skills a Plus
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Apply:
Note that due to the volume of applicants we receive for postings, we will not be able to respond to everyone. A sincere thanks for both your interest and time.
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