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Field Notes
September 2nd, 2010
Last academic year I spent each semester teaching one class at Pratt Institute. One ongoing project the classes completed was a visual journal. I was fortunate enough to be able to get Field Notes to sponsor the project by donating one journal to each student in the classes. I am excited to share more on this project as I photograph it, but I’ve got to show Field Notes what the students were able to do first.
Here is a sneak preview from the History of Communication Design class!
Cover from Kristie Bailey!
Cover from Tiffany Chen!
Inside spread from Brandon Wallace!
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End of Summer Approaching . . .
August 2nd, 2010
As the end of summer approaches, I figure it is about time to look back on the past spring.
The end of spring brought some really exciting adventures!
There is one exciting escapade I’d like to share. I took my Pratt Institute Print Production class on a letterpress field trip. Thanks to Dan at The Arm, I was able to bring my class to his studio to do some letterpress printing. At The Arm, my students (in groups of three) spent a bit of time designing, typesetting, and printing a poster for their senior show. Each group got to help with a different part of the letterpress process. Thanks to student Steven Mallia, we have some great documentation of the field trip (see a peek at what we did in his pictures below!).
You can also see write-ups of the field trip from Emily Wilbur and Christine Park. Emily and Christine were two of the other amazing students in my Print Production class.
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Bevy of Activities
January 8th, 2010
Happy New Year!!
It’s been a bit since I’ve updated. So much going on!
1. Used my gocco to individually silkscreen almost 2,000 coasters that Nina Mettler designed for her amazing wedding:
2. Photographed a great Southern Wedding for Selena Faye Hodge:
3. Became a band booking agent and started booking shows for the bands Nightmare Cats, Unorganism, Centennial, and The Goddamn Team-Players
Yes, this really happened, here is the evidence:
Nightmare Cats playing at Monkey Town
Unorganism playing at Death By Audio
Bruce of Centennial playing at Monkey Town
Nightmare Cats and Wilson Novitzki playing at Pianos!
Even got to letterpress some posters for the shows!
4. Working at Johnson and Johnson for the past few months as a designer on the Oral Care team. I have a new found appreciation for my teeth and all things Listerine!!
very different from today’s listerine, found via design muse
5. Teaching at Pratt’s Manhattan campus! I’m excited to post some work from my students last semester, as well as post work from the coming semester as well. If all goes as planned, we’ll get to go on some amazing studio visits!
Looking forward to posting more than I have been, and going to see Mixtape at the Jen Bekman Gallery before the show closes on January 9th!! Come with!
Feelingstape #2 by Kate Bingaman Burt
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Center for Vernacular Typography
June 18th, 2009
One project that I’ve been working on SLOWLY for quite a bit of time now is The Center for Vernacular Typography. About a year ago I started doing work on it with the owners & members of the Public Design Center: Clifton Burt, Kate Bingaman-Burt, and Will Bryant. While I was teaching, I did not have the amount of time to spend on the project that I would have liked. I’m getting back into the swing of it, and getting back on the project. Check out some pictures I’ve taken for the project so far, as well as the pictures many people have contributed to the group flickr! I find it so amazing that so many people are interested in this project!!
The Center for Vernacular Typography defines vernacular type as: “Letterforms selected, created, or applied by persons whose occupation is not derived from regular work with letterforms. ”
The dictum of CVT is “Document, catalog, research, and share.” Hopefully I’ll be building quite a library of vernacular typography to share!
Southern Typography Photographs
West Coast Photographs
North East Photographs
Flickr Group for adding Vernacular Typography photographs!
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The End of a busy 9 months.
June 5th, 2009
For the past 9 months, I’ve been in Mississippi teaching up a storm. The academic year is over, and I’ve finally decided to update the web space that bares my name. I gave a presentation to the art faculty here at the end of my year at Mississippi State University, and I just wanted to share a few images from that presentation that show the crazy-fun that has been this year.
MSU AIGA group (I was their faculty advisor. Be aware, this is but one sixth of the group):
Pix(elated!) Opening (MSU AIGA 4th Annual National Student Competition and Show):
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Letterpress Workshop:
An Independent study I did with Carl Carbonell called Get American:
And Finally, a Letterpress Workshop with Brad Vetter from Hatch Show Print:
this post actually dates: May 4th, 2009
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