Roanne is one of the judges for the Design Category in this year’s Art Directors Club Awards. The jury is going over submissions for four full days at the ADC headquarters in New York, selecting the best design work from the past year. Follow ADC and Roanne on Twitter to get sneak peeks from the judging process!

This month’s T Magazine features a beautiful Honor ad – just in time for Fashion Week! Art directed by yours truly, photographed by Chad Pittman for Honor’s Spring ’12 campaign.

All too often our NYC paced lifestyles make it easy to forget that the buildings we walk by and work in every day have stories to tell.

Our friends and clients at Projective Space recently found some beautiful treasures hidden under floorboards while renovating their new Lower East Side space, we thought they were too beautiful to not share! One man’s trash!

We did a little research and found…

Both cigarette boxes date back to 1910 and feature artwork inspired by Owen Jones: a London born architect who reproduced the ornate designs he found while traveling in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and India.

We thought it was pretty funny that the design for the “Turkish Cigarettes” packaging clearly took its style cues from Egypt.

The Juicy Fruit wrapper and matchbooks, all date back to the 1920’s. One of the matchbooks actually has an ad for life insurance: $5,000 worth of coverage for 5 bucks!

“I’ve always been enamored with the style and spirit of 1960s rock climbing culture in the US. My admiration was taken to new heights when my husband gave me a gift certificate to Brooklyn Boulders for Christmas. Now that I’m “learning the ropes”, I’m loving the use of repurposed climbing ropes for furniture, jewelry and other random objects. Another awesome gift from my husband: a pottery class at Clayworks on Columbia. It’s so cool to make something beautiful from a hunk of mud. This kind of abstract beauty has always appealed to me and at Art Basel Miami Beach this year my favorite piece was “H. I. L. M. D. A.” by Jillian Mayer. Another type of beautiful: I found this poncho of my Mom’s over Thanksgiving. Nothing better than a bit of nostalgia – which brings me to my new 90s chop! I cut all my hair off a few weeks back and when playing soccer on the weekend with friends, I look almost as good as these Chanel babes!”

1. My dad, Jerry Becker, and his brothers climbing Washaki Needles, Wyoming 1960
2. Pottery! This piece by Sabina Magnus
3. Treasures from Mom’s closet
4. “H. I. L. M. D. A.” by Jillian Mayer, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
5. Style + Soccer!
6. Rope objects, like this necklace from Sight Unseen

We’re proud to have been featured in two design award books, both organized by design enterprise Under Consideration – The Brand New Awards and The FPO (For Print Only) Awards.

The Brand New Awards recognize the year’s best identity work, an extension of their popular blog, Brand New. Our Brand Identity work for Honor was featured.

The FPO Awards is a judged competition that celebrates the year’s best print work from around the world. The book features our print work for Honor brand identity and Creative Space’s business cards.

DJ Nelleke

Johnny Wahba, Roanne Adams

Ariel Schulman, Nev Schulman

Sam Buffa, Jean Adamson | Vivan Thi Tang, DJ Nelleke

Gretchen Jones, Hannah Ault

Lizzie Fortunato, Kathryn Fortunato | Catering by Morris Kitchen

Cristiana Sadigianis, Alex John Beck | Maayan Zilberman, Tom Hines, Michelle Lueking

Zan Ludlum, Nev Schulman, Piera Gerladi | Timo Weiland, Shira Wheeler

Robert Alvarez, Aly Dailey | Cocktails by Morris Kitchen

The RoAndCo team!

To celebrate the holiday season and our new office (on White Street), we threw an all-white holiday party. Cordials and delicious bites were catered by Kari Morris & Gina Correll of Morris Kitchen, and the very talented DJ Nelleke spun records for us. (Almost) everyone sported their best winter whites – including a full bunny suit, worn by Yaniv Schulman. Like Santas little elves, we decorated the office with white cotton branches, melting candles and a pine-cone covered Christmas tree, making a perfect venue for celebration! Thank you to everyone who came and enjoyed the night with us.

See all the party pictures on BFA’s site or on our Facebook page.

We were also featured on NAAG!

Photos by: Benjamin Lozovsky / Billy Farrell Agency and Gunnar Larson.

For their first swimwear collection, Zinké drew inspiration from Palm Springs, a neon color palette, chevron patterns, and driftwood. For the Zinké Swimwear ’12 launch presentation, we gave out lookbooks with hand-painted painted driftwood sticks attached to them and teamed up with Aux Armes Etc. to create a backdrop of larger hand painted driftwood. Hosted in the Sky Room at the New Museum. We couldn’t help but love the amazing pops of color in the collection and the summery tunes spun by DJ Justine D. – especially on a chilly December night!

We’re firm believers in sharing inspirations, ideas, and discoveries. So, each month we will jump inside the head of a member of our team and see what is inspiring them at the moment on our blog. Sometimes new discoveries, sometimes a return to old ones, our inspirations are always changing and always driving what we do.

We asked Roanne to get the ball rolling by telling us what is inspiring her at the moment. Here’s what she said:

“Since we moved to our new office (yay!!), I’ve become a been studying up on interior design for work spaces. Although I’ll probably stick with the classics (Eames, Knoll, Saarinen, Wegner), in my searches I’ve come across some pretty obsession-worthy new interior design pieces. I’ve also really gotten into angled woodwork and metals: inspired by one of my new favorite restaurants, ISA. Owner Taavo Somer hand-made Nakashima-inspired wood tables mixed with American gothic chairs along with triangular shapes and angles.”

1. Leather chair by Tortie Hoare
2. Shy light by Bec Britain
3. Post-painterly Abstraction (painting by Larry Zox)
4. American Gothic (table by Atelier Takagi)
5. Sight Unseen Jewelry (necklace by Iacoli & McAllister)
6. ISA Restaurant

We’re very excited to announce that RoAndCo is moving offices! Our new space is only a few blocks away, but a big step for our growth. Stay tuned for pictures coming soon!

Our new address is:

RoAndCo Studio
62 White Street
Suite 3W
New York, NY 10013

Projective Space, a shared workspace headed by Ro’s husband and brother-in-law and with branding by (who else) us!, is raising money on IndieGoGo for their soon-to-open Lower East Side location. Click here to help pledge funds!

With one location already operating in Soho, the  space aims to facilitate the cross pollination of ideas between the tech and creative industries in New York City by providing dedicated and communal workspaces, educational programming and hosting a diverse range of networking events.

The funds will help them build essential aspects to their new location, including an event stage for classes and screenings, chairs for workstations, and audio/visual equipment for classes and events.

Contribute to get free access to classes, events, and some sweet gear!