自主制作ポスターシリーズの最新作。

My new monthly column for Snow Magazine launched today. The first installment is a rambling pontification on the qualities of time travel, the prediction of the future, and rappers.

The Meeting Modernity series of found photographs is the focus of Néojaponisme’s first traveling exhibition. Recently unearthed outside of the city of Sano in Tochigi-ken, this series of pictures documents Japan as it engaged with modernization and commercial photography in the Meiji and Taishō Periods. The series is comprised of portrait photography in particular.

The exhibition makes it’s fourth appearance at Suzu No Ki Café / すずの木カフェ in Yokohama this month.

Meeting Modernity is accompanied by a trio of essays by Ian Lynam, W. David Marx, and Matt Treyvaud reflecting the collection of photographs, the history of Japanese photography, commercial art, and Japanese society.

A limited edition of full-color Meeting Modernity postcard sets from the previous exhibition in Los Angeles’ Young Art are available at Suzu No Ki, as well as a few Néojaponisme-related items.

MEETING MODERNITY
March 13–April 1 2010

More:
Suzu No Ki
〒253-0043 神奈川県茅ケ崎市元町4-32
0467-82-3411
11:30〜18:00
日・月定休（祝祭日は営業）

We heartily encourage you to visit the exhibition.

The digital debut of Oz Cooper’s “Moderne” Broadway-esque titling typeface, Boul Mich, available now from MyFonts!

1927 was a discouraging year for Oswald Bruce Cooper, having to devote his time to developing faddish display typefaces based on others’ designs in lieu of truly original work.

Though he sidestepped blame in his essay On Cooper Type Faces, Barnhart Bros. & Spindler’s General Manager Richard N. McArthur was the one responsible for assigning Cooper busywork. McArthur put together a sampling of Broadway-esque hand lettering from assorted advertisements, suggesting a very specific incising treatment.

Cooper drew the basic forms of the letters, leaving the bulk of the work to the pattern makers at BB&S, but provided the framework from which the typeface was drawn. The typeface was named Boul Mich, after Michigan
Boulevard, Chicago’s mix of carriage trade shops, elegant residences, artists’ studios, and Bohemian side streets. While not a design of Cooper’s choosing, this modern typeface is a paean to the flexibility of Cooper’s skill.

Cooper Initials are offered in their original capital alphabet form in this digital version, with no supplementary characters.

The release of these two typefaces coincides with the publication of the definitive Oswald Bruce Cooper biography by Ian Lynam, published in Japan’s Idea Magazine issue #339. Cooper’s biography is delivered in English and Japanese with numerous full-color illustrations of never-before-published work.

Boul Mich has been lovingly redrawn from Oswald Bruce Cooper’s original drawings and mechanical proofs. It is comprised of a capital letter alphabet, full European character set, figures, and full range of diacritics.

Boul Mich is available now via MyFonts.

Liminal will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Salon für Kunstbuch: An Artwork as Enterprise

The exhibition opens on March 20, 2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig, Germany.

Curated by Nini Palavandishwili, Brigitte Schöppner, Barbara Steiner

Info:
Museum of Contemporary Art
Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9-11
D-04107 Leipzig
www.gfzk.de

Hours:
Tue-Fri 2pm – 7pm
Sat-Sun 12pm – 6pm

横浜の株式会社エドベックが開発した掲示版、電子メール、回覧板、クライアントへのファイル転送などあらゆる機能を搭載した独自の電子情報マネジメントシステム、Synapseのアイデンティティ。

東京に拠点を置くジョン・スノーの制作会社、M31のための巨大ロゴファミリー。

A heap of new, old, and exploratory identity design work. Firstly, the identity for Synapse, a comprehensive, proprietary inter-office electronic communication system developed by Yokohama’s EDVEC Corporation that incorporates bulletins, email, a kairanban system, and file transfer client.

A logo super-family for Jean Snow’s M31 production company. See the full identity in the Identity Design section.

An older logo for Tokyo hiphop duo Hifana incorporating Thai ornament.

A proposed logo for NY/LA film production company HKM which ultimately was passed on, though I still like it a lot.

Another wayward soul- a logo option provided to Gus Van Sant for the production identity of his film Paranoid Park.

A logo for Brooklyn restaurant The General Greene. The restaurant was oddly inspired by the city of Albany, two hours north of NYC, and my hometown.

A sneak peek at a detail from my upcoming Plazm Thread tee shirt, as well.

And, finally, a brand spankin’ new identity for the Tokyo art production company Nonaca.

New cover design for the latest Crimethinc release, A Guide to Picking Locks #2, available from Microcosm.

Nicer shots of the new Open Owl deck now in here.