• The Inverted Bike Shop

    Amongst the multitude of bike shops across Manhattan and Brooklyn, 718 Cyclery (www.718c.com) stands out for their unique approach to the business. This is the “inverted bike shop”.

  • New York Cicerone

    Justin Ferate is one of New York’s preeminent tour guides, and carries an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the city with him. His exuberance and attention to detail is one of many reasons he has such a loyal following – many people who join his tours revisit multiple times. He does all sorts of tours – [...]

  • Jazz in the Woodshop

    Honouring the grace of simple forms and the harmony of minimalism, Daniel Moyer infuses warmth, whimsy and superb craftsmanship into an iconic American furniture collection. Here we present the full length video of his beautiful work. Earlier Show Love produced a “Jazz in the Woodshop” flipbook and video teaser in anticipation of this event http://bit.ly/ve7VMc.

  • Yoko Furusho: Live in Barcelona

    JULY 30 & 31 — Yoko Furusho is a New York based illustrator from Tokyo invited to show her work in traditional Japanese store, Ikiru, located in the heart of the Born neighborhood of Barcelona, Spain. She offered to come in person and do a live painting instead to the utter delight of the store’s [...]

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    Show Love This embodies our mission. With all the bad rap capitalism is getting these days, we want to show what’s beautiful about enterprise. About absorbing everything around you as a citizen of the world, happening upon the kernel of an idea born out of a need or a desire, a gap in the marketplace, [...]

Welcome to Show Love World

Storytelling services for the makers, the doers, the thinkers, the tinkerers,the innovators, the problem solvers, the passionate people of the world.

What We Do

Web designers design websites. Most often they walk away leaving companies scrambling to figure out how to fill their beautiful new website with valuable engaging and dynamic content. That's where we step in. And then we take it off the page to 2.0 and beyond.

Who we are

Peter Crosby (photographer, videographer) and Chauncey Zalkin (writer, social content strategist). We look for companies, organizations, and people with stories that need to be told - and we tell them using video, text, tweets, posts, pages, events, installations, apps, whatever we (cont)

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Swiss Miss Pimps Our Ride

The Inverted Bike Shop launched in a great whirling roar of viral success the day after Valentine’s Day. No, it’s not a video about kittens, babies, or dangerous stunts, but received 20k views in the first week. (UPDATE 3/17/12: We’ve passed the 67k mark and we made the Vimeo Staff Channel Feature Page! Yay!) Then [...]

Unwrapped Soon: From The Source

Unwrapped soon: not your average every day importer of Indonesian furniture. They are a design company and international family of workers that are passionate about sustainability. They’ve built jaw-dropping tables and wall murals for John Varvatos, Aveda, the Duane Street Hotel and restaurants Hachi and Bánh Mì. The environment at From The Source is creative, [...]

Show Love Criteria. Ready?

We like to do work for businesses or projects that have one or more of the following traits: Sustainable (business models that work now, will work in the future, that sustain life on this planet, that make sense for this new more conscientious era) Innovative Soulful Community-minded Whimsical Aesthetically Sublime (we love beautifully made things, [...]

Introducing Brooklyn Furniture Designer Daniel Moyer

Part I: The Trailer Daniel Moyer builds. He builds furniture. With his own two hands. Out of beautiful and strong wood. Sourced from a small grower in Pennsylvania. Most pieces utilize wood joinery and stripes of contrasting wood create the pattern. Wood on wood. This creates a grace of symmetry with impact that is subtle [...]

The Sights and Sounds of Occupy Wall Street

An immersive walk through Occupy Wall Street

Profile: Museum of Ideas and Inventions in Barcelona

A profile of inventor Pep Torres, whose passion and perseverance led to him founding the Museum of Ideas and Inventions in Barcelona (MIBA).

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Stories We believe that storytelling from your company should be genuine and authentic. That’s why we approach the job like documentary filmmakers. You can plug and play tweets and Facebook updates if you want to but people are pretty savvy about messaging which is why they’ve retreated from TV ads to make their consumer choices [...]

Ikiru

Ikiru (www.ikiru.es) is a Japanese furniture and interior design products store located in Barcelona. All their futons are handmade in their nearby warehouse, following ancient Japanese tradition and technique to provide products customers with a unique, traceable and quality product with a personal service.

Matières à réflexion

Matières à réflexion (matieresareflexion.com) in Paris is a wonderful example of a store/workshop combination, a place that combines process, discovery, craftsmanship and human interaction in a single experience. What Women Make (www.whatwomenmake.com) spoke with designer Laetitia Azpiroz and partner Cyrille Raillet about their work.

eme3 International Architecture Festival

A video summary of this 4-day event held in Barcelona June-July 2011.

Is a Social Media Expert What You Really Need?

I’ve read several articles denouncing the validity of social media expertise and in a lot of ways, sympathize with the sentiment. When I interviewed Amir Kassaei, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Worldwide at the ADC*E Awards earlier this month, he cautioned the industry against their folly of calling ‘social media’ a medium at all. The [...]


The Art Directors Club of Europe: 2011 Awards Video

The Art Directors Club of Europe (ADC*E) 20th Annual Best of European Design and Advertising Awards Weekend in Barcelona, Spain. July 2011.

The Art Directors Club of Europe: Amir Kassaei Interview

Here is a bonus interview with Amir Kassaei, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Worldwide and the jury president at the 2011 ADC*E Best of European Design and Advertising Awards. Interview by Chauncey Zalkin, the ADC*E Press Officer and Social Media Director. Video and Editing by Peter Crosby.

Hotel Torre Laurentii

Set in a beautiful, renovated medieval mansion house in the peaceful village of Sant Lorrenç de la Muga, Northern Catalonia, Hotel Torre Laurentii is one of kind. Your stay offers a wonderful combination of tranquility, escape, luxury and stunning natural beauty surrounded by the valleys, hills and rivers of the lower Pyrenees region. It is [...]

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Three Steps To Social Content Bliss

Your website is the hub of your online identity. The more dynamic it is, the more engaged your audience and clients will be. A stagnant page can be pretty, but it’s not going to do much for your business. That’s where a blog comes in. A blog is your voice in motion. A blog entry [...]

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