Another year, another batch of holiday cards. As always, it’s good to have creative friends. Here’s three gifts that made my mailbox sing last month. John McVey wrung more joy out of a typewriter an a stylish serif. Above is the front, here is the inside spread:
and the front and back spread out:
Nikki Webb‘s was letterpress pleasure:
And our friends at UnderConsideration took a break from letterpressery, to go poster. Here’s the inside:
and my favorite mandala:
I designed the materials for To Arrive Where We Started, a curatorial project by Peter Eudenbach that recently opened at the Redwood Library & Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island. My work included a 24 x 36 poster, paper and metal signage, and a 10 x 30 hexa-fold 2-color brochure/map that guides visitors through and articulates the installation. The map idea and layout scheme was Peter’s concept that I elaborated upon and performed the typography (the face is Matthew Carter’s Miller.). Peter also supplied the imagery and did the requisite Photoshop work (except for the three-panel halftone image of him holding a triangular mirror up to the library pediment). Similarly, he devised the poster’s image juxtaposition that I executed. The map was printed by Liskey Printing in Norfolk. The exhibition runs until June 30, 2013, and a catalog is planned. (Sign photo by Peter Eudenbach, brochure photos by Leaf FitzGerald.)
I will be a keynote speaker at the Here and Now conference that’s part of the fourth annual Phoenix Design Week, September 24–30, 2012. I’ll be presenting “Singing the Surface,” the text of which I intend to be the title essay from my next writing collection. The event is presented by AIGA Arizona and promises to be warm and fun.
I submitted a (virtual) poster to the Occupy What’s Next web site, an action begun by a trio of San Francisco designers. Graphic designers were called upon “to participate in a global campaign to generate solutions for a constructive future.” Posters were submitted from around the world and will be part of a competition to select “99 strong and functional posters” and to additionally award 5 contestants some Adobe software swag that I don’t need.
The image on my poster is of a hand grasping a nettle and the type is what it says.