Elizabeth Beer & Brian Janusiak formed Various Projects, Inc. as a multidisciplinary creative collaboration in 2005. Often working in blurry areas between design, art, and commerce, Various Projects is always looking to link creative disciplines. Collaborations are a central and essential focus of the studio which creates objects, garments, accessories, books, furniture, and spaces as the need arises. Various Keytags™ is a product line made by Various Projects that evolved from a single souvenir created exclusively for the Travel/Hotel store. Now its own entity or spin-off, it offers an infinite number of word and phrase variations and continues to grow into new customized categories. Project No. 8 has historically been the retail arm of Various Projects and currently resides entirely online as we have now entirely shifted away from our physical locations. Project No. 8 spaces have offered Various Projects and their many creative partners a chance to experiment with themes that re-occur in their work: questions of distribution, digression, and the creation of fluctuating communities.