Booklet design for the latest Artalking event, Tokyo Fashion Cultures.

Wordshape, my type foundry, has just released a new font – Black-Out Stencil, a typeface designed by L.A. resident and designer extraordinaire, Eli Carrico.

Black–Out is a result of three things: the need for a distinctive ultra-black display typeface, an admiration for slab-serifs and Clarendons, and the love of systematic stencil type. Fusing all the desires together resulted in Black–Out.

Black-Out was used for the cover and interior of the Barbara Bestor book, Bohemian Modern, designed by Eli and Michael Worthington a few years ago over at Counterspace, a stunning book about L.A. architecture and interiors. Since then, it’s seen super-limited use by a select few folks, but Eli decided (with a little prodding) that the time was nigh for public release.

Available now via Wordshape/MyFonts!

A few years ago, some of my design work went into the permanent collection in MoMA, which was a huge step in terms of creative legitimation for me on a personal level. Fairly recently, a large body of my work went into the permanent collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago (due utterly to the interest of Paul F. Gehl, curator extraordinaire), holders of great collections of some of my heroes, namely Oz Cooper and Will Dwiggins.

I am really excited to have my work be part of an officially documented continuum of American graphic design in such a prestigious institution. It happened casually and with zero pomp and circumstance, though inside I was jumping up and down with excitement.

Giant thanks to Paul and the amazing staff at the Newberry. You are my favorite library in the world. Machida’s doesn’t touch you with a long stick.

Over at Néojaponisme, we’ve been doing some fun stuff for Infiniti as of late.

Lesque has been getting a whole lot of love as of late in the press- features in Japanese magazines like Ollie, Warp, Secret Cut, Transworld Skateboarding, Paper Sky, Samurai, and the Skater’s 2010 Bible.

Today saw the release of all of the Roman weights of my new typeface family, Clobber via Wordshape/MyFonts.

Just found this out in the webosphere: Eric Cruz of W+K Tokyo presenting one of our collaborative projects at the last Pictoplasma Conference in Berlin.

Designed a bunch of assorted graphic items for Ryochi Yamazaki’s upcoming exhibition at Nakaochiai Gallery over the past few weeks– postcard design above.

Latest collection for Lesque in Japan’s Samurai Magazine.

A big, fat, smoochy thanks to Lullatone for providing the early morning soundtrack for the INTAPAC promotional video. One cannot find a better sound designer out there.