The Hartford Art School

I am very pleased to announce that next year I will be attending The Hartford Art School to study graphic design and the visual arts. The school is a small community of creative indivudals within the atmosphere of a larger unviersity.

The design department emphasizes …

Design and Practice

There is the practice of design.

There is practicing design.

Practice of design is the business and art of doing and creating design, like a medical practice. Then you practice design, learn new methods, just like you practice a sport.

Design and Practice.

New Design Work

Here are four new design projects. This first one was done for Open Mic Night at my school which I hosted with two of my friends. The design is based upon a typeface that I created for this project. They hung on the walls of the school to promote the event.

This was a …

Out My Window

Out My Window is project started by photographer Gail Albert Halaban in collaboration with the Design Trust for Public Space. The project aims to capture how people live in New York City and what they see outside their windows.

Rocking Out to the Beat of Life

Life has been pretty good these days. Been keeping busy with many aspects of life.

In the past couple days I have had an interview with Armin Vit published online at Speak Up, Josh Spear featured my projects, DesignNotes by Michael Surtees posted about my video of Kate …

The Black Book

Pentagram is pleased to announce the publication of the Black Book, a new 800-page overview of our recent work. The book is a compilation of over 400 projects from the last several years, arranged in alphabetical order, like a dictionary, and printed on Bible paper, …

Some Handmade Paper Type

Hand made type base on Helvetica. Made by printing a pattern on sticker sheets and cutting out the letters using a scalpel. Brought to us by Idiot Copenhagen.

Design and Art / Poetry and Music

In modern art we have artists statements hung on the walls of the museums.

In design we have creative briefs.

This is not true for poetry and music.

For poetry and music we simply have the language and the words.

Left for us to interpret.

Lately our focus in English …

Kate Bingaman-Burt and Mike Perry

This past fall I headed to New York City to see an artist talk with Kate Bingaman-Burt and Mike Perry at the Jen Bekman Gallery. I had arranged to spend some time with them and filmed our conversation.

Michael Perry runs a small design studio in Brooklyn, New York. …

Cesar Pelli Building

In my travels yesterday I found myself right next to a brand new building from Cesar Pelli that was under construction. There was a display case in the building next to it where I happened to be for the day and the final product looks amazing as you can see above.

The …

Recently Found Design That's Awesome

La Bonne Merveille has created some inspiring work. Especially like this work and how they presented the work through the composition in this photograph.

Nikolay Saveliev is a graphic design from New York City.

Supplemental material for a presentation of Michael …

Recently Found Design That's Awesome

La Bonne Merveille has created some inspiring work. Especially like this work and how they presented the work through the composition in this photograph.

Nikolay Saveliev is a graphic design from New York City.

Supplemental material for a presentation of Michael …

Helvetica Serif

This morning on The Serif I found a new font being introduced.

FontFont have announced that they are to release Helvetica Serif, following the discovery of drawing of that typeface by Max Miedinger. The sketches which were discovered by Miedinger's granddaughter have …

The Kangaroo

As an excerise for english class we had to write a poem about an animal.

It is the boxer in the outback, the powerful legs,

It is a tall one, standing strong.

The huge ears jutting from his head, tuning in always.

The short arms contrasting with the long legs.

The tan …