New article up on Néojaponisme about the work of Daijiro Ohara and Kunihiko Okano.

Animated training video for Duke University’s PhD program in Ethnographic Research.

Animated intro for training video series for Duke University’s PhD program in Ethnographic Research.

Just launched: the long overdue redesign of the Wordshape website- featuring retail fonts and select books, magazines, zines, posters, stationery and other design products.

Wordshape offers select issues of Idea Magazine at an affordable price including postpaid international shipping. Idea is Japan’s foremost graphic design publication- each issue has more care put into it than the bulk of graphic design monographs- consistently unique content, multiple paper types and printing processes utilized in each issue, and featuring a mix of English and Japanese content. Idea is, simply put, the best graphic design magazine out there.

Wordshape’s type selection offers a variety of fonts – from the most complete and accurate range of revivals of the work of Oz Cooper to exciting contemporary display faces to workhorse text faces.

We offer a variety of publications on assorted topics, as well. The books we carry include handy guides on how to pick locks, vegan cookbooks, ponderings on the death of the physical book in the current e-publishing craze, contemporary photography from Japan, type design sketchbook sets, underground pop music, and even a D.I.Y. bicycle repair guide.

Wordshape operates as a hobby enterprise – an online select shop offering a curated, hand-picked selection of goods, choosing quality over quantity. We invite you to come peruse.

Fancy new decorative tags for the latest bag line from Joshu + Vela.

Identity for the Charcole Group, Tokyo business conglomerate that operates Five By Fifty, Bespoke Tokyo, and INTAPAC. Identity includes logo, monogram, and corporate micro-site.

I just released a new font via Wordshape/MyFonts: Off Broadway, a 1920s-style Broadway display typeface with a bit of pen swashiness and a bit of rough edges a la Ben Shahn. Inspired by the roaring 20s in Chicago and a bit of showcard lettering, Off Broadway is perfect for sign and display work, as well as logo use and the occasional odd job that needs some thing casual, yet refined.

Photos from Little Bird‘s new intranet, the contents of which were shot in December during a marathon session on location in Portland.

One from the archives: I Can’t Tell You What Love Is, But I Can Tell You What I Love, a print circa 2006 for a group exhibition put on by The Wurst Gallery called We Heart Gocco.

I wrote this thing for this thing…. it’s gonna make some people not happy… but it’s also gonna make other people happy.