BRANDING
INTEGRITY, CHARACTER, WIT
XMAS Designworks is a multipotentiality creative studio serving clients — individuals, businesses, events, campaigns — using non-linear problem solving to communicate estimable values through the ideation, design, and application of sharp, efficient visual language.
Below are samples of typical identity work-ups for XMAS and some favorite clients. For an example of a branding design brief, click here.
DESIGN
GRAPHIC, FURNITURE, SPATIAL
Lead by ideas, design is bound not by rules or genre, but by values and principles. The design sensibility of XMAS is born of minimalist aesthetic philosophies of Pennsylvania Shakers, the Bauhaus, and Scandinavian design. Through study in San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Providence, and practice in NYC and Philadelphia, XMAS was developed to accommodate nearly any design project with solutions of comfort and joy.
Read the design brief for this Theater “mural” proposal here
XMAS’s 2022 furniture collection debut: Reversible chair; small stacking stool/stand; skewered double wicker floor lamp; and a cement Brutalist birdhouse.
The Reversible Chair is made of baltic birch plywood and laminate. There are two different seatbacks per chair (four total), each offering a “soft” or “sharp” version, changeable for desired mood or form.
Both seatbacks are hinged to the seat. To change them, one is folded down and secured with the wood dowel, the chair flipped over, opposite dowel removed and placed at the top “legs,” and seatback raised up to lean against the dowel.
Future versions will explore color block designs, and different laminates and substrates, including for outdoor use.
Contact for more information and custom orders.
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Both seatbacks are hinged to the seat. To change them, one is folded down and secured with the wood dowel, the chair flipped over, opposite dowel removed and placed at the top “legs,” and seatback raised up to lean against the dowel.
Future versions will explore color block designs, and different laminates and substrates, including for outdoor use.
Contact for more information and custom orders.
ART
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINTS, OBJECTS
Painting inspires all other form-making, regardless of media; art is a ceaseless commitment to solve an indeterminate problem.
See art here: ︎
ABOUT
XMAS Designworks was founded in 2020 by Andrew Russel Andruss to cultivate the concept of generalist design and provide clients with durable, elegant objects and visual communication full of good cheer.
Andrew has studied broad genres of art and design at some of the best institutions around the world, and practiced in Brooklyn before relocating to Chicago in late 2023 where he gut renovatied a former bar in Logan Square to serve as an ongoing case study and experimental live/work design lab.
Andrew is currently pursuing an M.Arch degree at SAIC with the aim to bring his unique architectural philosophy to art-minded clinets looking for low-maintenance live/work spaces that accomodate creative lifestyles forever.
All are welcome to schedule a studio visit — you will likely come away energized and with a free houseplant cutting. Please email or book a visit via Setmore to get started now.
Andrew has studied broad genres of art and design at some of the best institutions around the world, and practiced in Brooklyn before relocating to Chicago in late 2023 where he gut renovatied a former bar in Logan Square to serve as an ongoing case study and experimental live/work design lab.
Andrew is currently pursuing an M.Arch degree at SAIC with the aim to bring his unique architectural philosophy to art-minded clinets looking for low-maintenance live/work spaces that accomodate creative lifestyles forever.
All are welcome to schedule a studio visit — you will likely come away energized and with a free houseplant cutting. Please email or book a visit via Setmore to get started now.
BRAND IDENTITIES
BOOK DESIGN
FILM TITLES
POSTER DESIGN
MENU DESIGN
BOOK DESIGN
FILM TITLES
POSTER DESIGN
MENU DESIGN
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
FURNITURE DESIGN
INTERIORS
LIGHTING
SIGNAGE
FURNITURE DESIGN
INTERIORS
LIGHTING
SIGNAGE
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