Despite industry trends towards intense specialization and all-digital workflows, Impactist has stayed true to their interdisciplinary, mixed media roots.
For well over a decade, Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing, the couple behind the Portland, Oregon-based studio, have been making music and visuals in equal measure. They divide their time between personal projects and commercial projects, using the latter to fund the former.
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It’s an approach that has allowed them to stay comfortably outside the mainstream, crafting work that is personal, quirky and unexpected. Their latest in-house effort is a series of four promos for their recently released EP, “Invisible Snake.”
While radically diverse in terms of technique, all of the promos feature a rectangular prism, a nod to the home of the titular invisible snake.
“Snakesnakesnake”
“Oh Sparky”
“Invisible Snake”
The fourth promo, “Trophyatrophy” is a print promo. Impactist explains:
For a limited time, you email us your postal address to info@impactist.com. We mail you the promo. You download or stream “Trophyatropahy” while you flip through the book. Done. You keep the promo as a physical piece of Impactist and Invisible Snake. You live the remainder of your days satisfied and fully developed as a freshly enlightened human being.
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Shot of the print promo for “Trophyatrophy”
“Invisible Snake” is available for download or streaming on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify and Apple Music.