The new logo and identity for PechaKucha‘s Global Cities Week launched yesterday. It’s a week-long celebration of the cities that host PechaKucha Night events all over the world.

I’ll be doing a casual presentation on lettering that I spotted around Cuba during my recent trip to the place where Americans aren’t supposed to go this Wednesday at PechaKucha Night Tokyo.

Last year I collaborated with Dwayne Dixon on creating a video framework to be used for Duke University’s video modules for training students in ethnographic fieldwork. Dwayne has gone through and filled out all of the modules into a comprehensive series of training videos to help students understand the ethical conduct of research with human subjects. Giant thanks to Dwayne, Lorna and the rest of the Duke team!

Client Little Bird, a bistro in Portland, Oregon, just got a swell writeup in the New York Times. See it here.

I wrote the introduction essay “Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down” for the new book Big Brand Theory, published by Sandu Media and Gingko Press. Check it out here and here.

Tokyo Fashion Week branding now out in the world!

Just finished a slew of new book cover designs for Microcosm- first, the cover for Joe Biel’s new book of interviews Beyond The Music.

Next is a redesign of the cover for Stephen Duncombe’s seminal Notes from Underground.

Final is Joey Torrey’s Bamboozled.

New: Collaborative redesign of Tokyo club SuperDeluxe’s website with CPOS, running on their bespoke CMS.

Collaborative redesign of Tokyo club SuperDeluxe’s website with CPOS, running on their bespoke CMS.

Simultaneously the easiest and hardest project ever: designing invitations to your own wedding. Just as daunting- do you put it on your website? I thought not, but we’re really proud of how these turned out.

We picked up the squirrels sharing an acorn from an old book of German trademarks, the initial caps from hand-lettering by Bavarian communists, and were forced to put the damn venue’s logo on the map card by the damn venue. Nonetheless, it turned out beautifully. Fine-tuned bilingual typography, lovely printing and blind debossing, custom paper and even the ol’ ‘Rubine Red gradient in the gutter trick’.