オレゴン州ポートランドの文具店、Tenth & Grantのためのコースターデザイン。二種類のデザインが五枚ずつ入ったボックスセットになっている。

In a rare and intimate one-night event, apparel/book/font designer, publisher, and manufacturer of design objects, Andy Cruz of House Industries will speak about his work and House’s most recent collaboration with the estate of Charles and Ray Eames.

As a partner in the cutting edge design phenomenon House Industries, Andy has helped steer the course of visual culture over the past fifteen years, creating design work with toes dipped liberally in fine art, Modern design, vernacular commercial art, and brand-oriented graphic design. See the past and the future collide and how the aesthetic of tomorrow will emerge!

Friday, September 17 2010
Doors Open: 19:00
Presentation / Q&A: 19:30 – 20:00
Dinner: 20:00

Oakwood Premier Tokyo Midtown
Address: Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
Map: Click here.
Telephone: 03-5412-3131
Fee: ¥3,500 (Advance) ¥4,500 (Door)
Includes presentation, light buffet dinner, drink, limited edition publication and limited edition print.
Language: English with Japanese Interpretation

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アンディー・クルズ氏がご自身の今までの軌跡や、チャールズ&レイ・イームズ両氏の遺作とコラボした最新の作品についてのトークライブを行います。

最新鋭のデザインを生み出していくハウスインダストリーズの一員として、アンディー・クルズ氏は過去15年以上にわたって、ペインティング、現代的デザイン、大衆的商業デザイン、ブランドデザイン等、ありとあらゆる芸術・美術に常に挑戦し、新しい風を吹かせながらビジュアルカルチャーという航路の舵取りを担ってきました。

今までアンディー・クルス氏がどんな旋風を巻き起こしてきたのか、また、これからどんな新しい未来を作り上げていくのか、是非会場に足を運んで時の目撃者となってください。

日時：　2010年9月17日 (金)　
開場：　19:00
トークライブ/質疑応答： 19:30
ディナー：　20:00
会場：　オークウッド プレミア 東京ミッドタウン
住所：　107-0052 東京都港区赤坂9-7-4
電話：　03-5412-3131
費用：　3500円（前売り）　4500円（当日）
＊費用の中には、トークライブ参加費、軽食ビュッフェディナー、 お飲み物、限定発行の出版物が含まれます。
言語：　英語に日本語の通訳がつきます。

詳しくは、ノナカアートプロダクションズのウェブサイト( http://nonaca.net/ )をご覧ください。

I have a new essay and interviews with my favorite young Japanese designers, Kunihiko Okano and Daijiro Ohara, in the latest issue of Slanted Magazine.

More once I get my hands on one!

NORTHWEST PASSAGE RELEASE PARTY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27th, 7PM | FREE
READING FRENZY | 921 SW OAK ST.

Celebrate the release of the Dill Pickle Club’s newest publication, Northwest Passage: 50 Years and Independent Music from the Rose City, with a short talk by the book’s editor, Marc Moscato, and the publication’s audio editor, Erin Yanke.

Northwest Passage is a book and audio CD highlighting the history of Portland’s burgeoning independent music scene, and includes contributions from: The Dill Pickle Club, Mississippi Records, Oregon Historical Music Society, PDX Pop Now!, Joe Kregal, Ural Thomas, Valerie Brown, Fred and Toody Cole, Vanessa Renwick and Erin Yanke, Calvin Johnson and Cool Nutz.

Afterward, DJ HWY 7 spins a special set of forgotten Portland classics 1950s-present, mined from his archive of local vinyl – from punk to funk and blues and deep PDX soul. This event is free, with beer donated by Ninkasi.

I spent a good chunk of time designing Northwest Passage over the past few weeks- in my estimation, it’s a pretty righteous book content-wise, charting the history of Dead Moon/Pierced Arrows, Portland soul singer Ural Thomas (the man responsible for opening many an Otis Redding concert and for providing James Brown with many of the hooks he’s so famous for), along with Beat Happening/Dub Narcotic/K Records’ Calvin Johnson, and a ton of others.

Thanks to Marc Moscato and the Dill Pickle Club for inviting me to collaborate on what will definitely be a milestone in American music history.

A while ago, I posted on Facebook that I wanted to host a little event where typographically-minded folks could get together and have a fun day where we could play with letterforms and experiment with type both formally and informally. After mulling this over for a bit, I decided to go ahead and start a formal lecture and event series called BetterLetter to explore these ideas.

In collaboration with Artalking, BetterLetter is going to have its first event, a lecture by Andy Cruz of the famed type foundry and manufacturer of design objects, House Industries, on September 17 in Tokyo. It is going to be a fun, intimate, one-night event where Andy talks about his work and recent collaborations with the Estate of Charles and Ray Eames.

More info will be posted tomorrow about the kickoff.

Mammal is playing LIVE on Saturday at Lamai in Shibuya for their KIDS’ DISCO event- live music for parents and kids. The event is sold out, but feel free to try to sneak in!

I’ll be in LA for TypeCon, repping the studio, Wordshape, and Pinball Publishing next weekend. Pinball and I will be debuting our new joint project, TypeSketcher at the conference.

And while we’re on the subject of typography…

I just released a new typeface, Neuerland, an attempt to update Rudolf Koch’s traditional hand-cut display typeface, adding ligatures and alternate characters inspired by the forms of Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase’s Avant Garde.

I’ve been out of the form-making loop for a few years now, confined to other territories (web, identitiy, research, etc), but a handful of new projects have lit a fire under my tuckus to dig into exploring Japanese typography and stabbing away at image-rich visuals. Above, a draft for an image + lettering treatment for Plazm Magazine Issue #30.

On occasion, I like to do projects alongside my students. Full report in Print + Product section!

日本のデザイン教育では作品へのより抽象的なアプローチを勉強する機会が滅多にないので、往々にして私もテンプル大学ジャパンの生徒たちと同じ課題に取り組むようにしている。