イタリアのインディペンデント出版社silk pressより発行されたzineにおいて、Experiemntal JetsetとR.ケリーの類似性に関するエッセイを執筆した。これはわずか20部の発行であるため、この文は近くどこかに再掲載される予定。
Ut Graphica Poesis, an essay I co-wrote and edited with Muroga Kiyonori about the lifework of Japanese graphic designer Hequiti Harata, kicks off the brand spankin’ new Idea Magazine #346.
仙台の復興支援を世界に呼びかけるべくグローバルぺちゃくちゃないとが企画したイベント、『INSPIRE JAPAN』のマイクロサイト。
ブレット・スティルウェルがWebアプリケーションフレームワークDjangoを使って構築したこのサイトは、@font-faceと我らがClobber Grotesk DemiBoldの書体を活用して、すっきりとしていながらも最大限のインパクトでもって見る者の心に届くメッセージを発信している。
Just finished up a lovely little micro-site for INSPIRE JAPAN, a global Pecha Kucha fundraising event to assist with rebuilding efforts in Sendai. Built on a Django framework put together by Brett Stilwell.
I have a new typeface available from Wordshape:
Maat is a modular geometric stencil display font that includes a number of modular pattern characters, and can be used to create designs that echo early Modernism by merely applying letters, patterns and color.
Maat is a loose interpretation of a hand lettered alphabet by the late Dutch designer Jurrian Schrofer called Sans Serious which was included in Wim Crouwel’s publication Letters of Maat. It is inflected with a bit of influence from British designer Ken Garland’s similar lettering form the cover of his textbook, The Graphics Handbook. Maat derives its name from the title of Couwel’s booklet.
I was inspired by Garland’s modular lettering a decade ago and took up the task of digitizing it, though never released it commercially. A designer in New York was coincidentally doing something very similar, and we talked of collaborating to release a version designed by the both of us. After a decade of waiting, I stumbled across Schrofer’s alphabet in an old publication by Wim Crouwel in one of my favorite bookshops in Tokyo last week, and it inspired me to take the project up again, though with more influence from Schrofer’s alphabet than Garland’s work.
Maat is available now from Wordshape. All proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross.
One from the archives- I designed a ton of Micropops for the website Flipflopflyin.com years and years ago. You can see ancient history here. Includes Micropops of my cartoon characters Our Hero and his nameless sock puppet pal, as well as friends- with haircuts!