Pochis Bank Art Studio was hired to create nine large scale custom chalkboard backdrops for Revolution Dancewear’s 2017 Costume Catalogue. Before the photoshoot, dozens of pre-sketches were done. Nancy and her team of artists worked closely with Revolution Dancewear’s art director and photographer to define the style and the content of the backdrops. The team […]
Rock Bottom Brewery held a special event with the retro theme of “The Beverly Hills Hotel.” We captured that iconic style on the chalkboards presenting the food and drink specials.
We were hired to help celebrate Leo Burnett’s 83rd birthday. During this event focused on wellness, employees of the ad agency shared their “morning mantras” with us and we captured them live with hand-lettering.
We chalked it up at Navy Pier for I Heart Halal, the first-ever Halal lifestyle expo in the U.S. Deli Halal hired us to share their mission of providing pure, wholesome and humane deli meats using four 8′ x 4′ chalkboards to illustrate their story. Watch a video of us creating the chalk mural below!
In 2017, the South Loop welcomed Chicago’s sixth largest hotel in the Marriott Marquis. This Marriott is located near McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America, and boasts among other amenities a full-service, 400-seat restaurant: Woven + Bound. The Marriott Marquis Chicago contacted Pochis Bank Art Studio to add hand-lettered specials and illustrations […]
Pochis Bank Art Studio was hired to re-design an illustrated chalkboard menu for The Boiler Shrimp and Crawfish in Skokie, IL. Nancy and the team wanted to design a cleaner and more organized chalkboard menu with more realistic illustrations of the sea food. They decided to divide the various menu items into categories and created a section for […]
Pochis Bank Art Studio was hired to create two custom chalkboards for The Rabbit Hole in Old Town. The brand new bar just had their soft open and they wanted two chalkboards to help set the scene for patrons of all kinds. Using our expertise in hand-lettering, Nancy and the Pochis Bank Artists designed two […]
Pochis Bank Art Studio was hired to create custom chalkboards for this year’s 30 under 30 restaurants in New Orleans for Zagat. Each year the esteemed culinary publication chooses hot new and young restaurateurs from cities around the country to feature. New Orleans is known for the amazing food so it is no surprise that […]
Back in May, Pochis Bank Art Studio was hired to create custom chalkboard backdrops for Revolution Dancewear’s 2017 Costume Catalogue. The anticipation and excitement for this leading dancewear manufacturer’s costume launch is always high, and the photos couldn’t be released until now! Before the photoshoot, dozens of pre-sketches were done. Nancy and her team of […]
We created dotted chalkboards in the bathrooms of the Stony Island Arts Bank, a gallery, media archive, library and community center in this historic building on Chicago’s South Side.
Pure Wow, “a digital publication dedicated to finding ways to make your life more interesting, beautiful and manageable”, featured Pochis Bank Art Studio on their website today. Check out this profile of Nancy’s hand-lettering work, written by blogger Amalie Drury.
Nancy Pochis Bank Art Studio was commissioned by Crain’s Chicago Business to illustrate the cover of their annual Book of Lists on a giant chalkboard. Nancy hand-lettered and illustrated a tribute to Chicago’s public art and the contents of the magazine onto a custom made chalkboard by Marne Provost. To see the whole process, from start to finish, […]
Nike’s new fall Collection has arrived at NTC Lincoln Park, who for the past year has been regularly commissioning Nancy Pochis Bank Studio to create chalk signage for their merchandise displays. As always, credit to our studio artists! Thanks Poppy […]
This week, Nancy Pochis Bank Studio created several new chalkboards for the Nike Training Club to introduce their latest batch of fitness gear. Continuing with the same sleek, sans-serif style that we have used for all our previous chalk work at NTC, these boards explain to shoppers each products’ various functions and features.
Congratulations to the newlyweds, Laura and Jared! This hand-lettered wedding chalkboard was beautifully framed and proudly displayed on their special day. The bride herself created the DIY chalkboard and then added a classy frame to our elegant design. Thanks to studio artist Elizabeth Ahlem for her excellent work on this board. Nancy Pochis Bank Art […]
Nancy Pochis Bank Studio was hired by the St. Louis ad agency Group 360 to design and create a mockup restaurant chalkboard that highlights Leffe Beer. We were to imagine that the finished product would be displayed in a popular Chicago restaurant, so we chose Girl and the Goat, in our city’s West Loop. The resulting restaurant chalkboard […]
Nike’s Latest barefoot-style shoe, the Free Bionic, as well as their Tail Wind Tank, are now at NTC and are being promoted via these sleek Nancy Pochis Bank Art Studio chalkboards: NTC wants to see you at the beach! Always more to come- check back soon!
Nancy Pochis Bank Studio has been continuing to work with the new Nike Training Center in Lincoln Park. Most recently, we created several 8×10″ typographic chalk plaques quoting NTC trainers, soon to be installed in the fitting rooms. Here are some additional recent projects for NTC: Our illustrated chalk enlargement of Nike’s latest […]
Nancy Pochis Bank Studio was hired by Current, a PR firm in Chicago, to create potential artwork for their client Muller Yogurt’s social media. Thanks to studio artist Elizabeth Ahlem for her great work on this project!
Every year, Latin School of Chicago puts up a wall display using baby photos of all their graduating seniors. For the class of 2013, Nancy Pochis Bank Studio created this chalkboard prompting students to see if they can identify who’s who. Thanks to studio artist Elizabeth Ahlem for her design work on this project. Plus, a […]
Nancy Pochis Bank Art Studio has spent the last few weeks designing and executing five chalk boards for the Omni Hotel’s amazing new restaurant and bar, 676. This farm-to-table restaurant describes their menu as “approachable, organic and sustainable – local food treated the way it was intended.” A special thanks to artists Amanda Paulson and Poppy Golland for […]
