ABOUT IDLEWILD
WELCOME TO IDLEWILD
Idlewild is a creative editorial multimedia company that explores the intersectionality of imagery via storytelling. It is our goal to use creative approaches to allow our visuals to aid in the exploration of creative projects, editorial publications and more.
Our creative approach and artistic background allows us to shift the perspective of what an editorial project could be in order to capture the essence that we and our clients are aiming for.
Having been through several phases on development, it is our intention to keep the boundaries of our services open to produce visions executed with the upmost care and precision.
We more recently collaborated with a poet on their second published book in providing the imagery, perfectly coinciding with their storytelling component. We do encourage you to browse our portfolio to see some of the work that we have produced for our own projects and others.
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND OUR NAME
Idlewild's name is inspired by two creative and inspiring sources.
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Art is a core basis to all that we do and have always admired the film "Idlewild" starring the phenomenal Hip Hop Duo, Outkast. The cinematic "musical" based loosely around the Great Depression Era serves as creative inspiring cultural backdrop to 1930s fashion, dance and resilience to thrive.
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Although Idlewild, GA was a fictional place, there is an actual Idlewild, Michigan that is known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."
In the early 1900s, Idlewild served as a safe place, the only place that African Americans could go to live, void of racism that drove them away from prior cities. Idlewild, MI was once a thriving community that is now seeking to re-establish themselves, preserve historic landmarks and hopefully attract descendants of past idlewilders and more to return to the community.