Launched this week: a brand spankin’ new website for Knee High Media Japan, publishers of Plants+, Paper Sky, and Mammoth Magazines, as well as founders of Tokion Magazine.

The site is all souped-up using a number of different programming languages, and we’re happy to have rolled it out.

Print ad from new campaign for Roland printing in Japan’s Popeye and MdN magazines.

I’ve been working closely with the team at Roland for the past few months creating work output using their new metallic inkjet oversize printing system. You can take a look at some of the posters designed for this project and read an interview on Roland’s new “The World Is Metallic” website.

Visual design for Foodpusher, a social networking-based culinary website.

Newest edition of 1,000 two-color posters in the Poster Initiative series of posters distributed for free around Tokyo. Printed in fluorescent yellow and bronze.

A preview version of Type Sketcher for TypeCon. A collaboration between myself and Austin Whipple at Scout Books/Pinball Publishing, it’s a trio of type design sketchbooks with modular grids for designing letterforms.
The inside covers feature illustrated essays showing users how to properly draw letters (overshoot, ascender ratios, type anatomy), as well as showing samples of type design that I find particularly intriguing).
At $12 a pop, they’re cheap, as well. The perfect gift for the type nerd closest to you.

New limited edition three-color print (signed series of 200, hand numbered) for the BetterLetter X Artalking House Industries presentation in Tokyo available now for $20 postpaid via Paypal. Email to pick one up.

German release of Blunt Mechanic’s “World Record” out now on Grand Hotel Van Cleef with 2 extra tracks.

New limited edition three-color print (signed series of 200, hand numbered) for the BetterLetter X Artalking House Industries presentation in Tokyo available now for $20 postpaid via Paypal. Email to pick one up.

Printed in fluorescent green, fluorescent pink, and silver.

I have a batch of typefaces in the new Typodarium published by Magma Brand Design in Germany. Typodarium is a daily tear-off calendar that collects the best in independent font releases annually.

Typodarium 2011 is available here.

A more full showing of the TypeCon-only Type Sketcher is available in the Print + Product section.

Konexi!!!

Konexi was published by the nice folks at Zimzala Games.

Finally, the latest installment of the Poster Initiative series of posters is out now. They’ll be distributed around Tokyo later this week.

The House Industries lecture at Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi was a smash success!

Over 120 folks came down to check out the lecture, eat some food, and sip some drinks while checking out a stellar presentation by Andy Cruz.

Giant thanks to my co-organizer Julia Barnes of Artalking/Nonaca, Andy and Steph Cruz, our amazing sponsors: Entropy Design and IDEA Magazine, all who pitched in to help out, and everyone who attended!

It was a great first event and we are looking forward to presenting more design-oriented events in the near future!

Got a nice mention on the Swatch/MTV Playground blog this week.