I’ll be hanging/working at Grasshut for the next two days from noon thru 7PM. Come on down and chat me up if you are in town. They still have a handful of my sold-out books for sale and I’m happy to sign one for you if you pop in and pick one up.

Also, new boombox/ghetto blaster for Rap-Up available now! Photos once I get them!

The date of the PNCA lecture and workshop has been changed to the 11th of December. That’s tomorrow. If you want in, show up at PNCA Commons at 3PM.

Some new work has been added: the print identity for Néojaponisme and the postcard set for Meeting Modernity.

I will be in Portland for the better part of the month, as well as half of January.

Just finished:  website for Seattle-based film production company, Cross Films. They are the proud parents of Cooper.

Two color business cards for online cultural journal Néojaponisme. Instead of printing four separate cards for each editor, we chose to create a “choose your own adventure” approach”. The cards were printed by a rather questionable printer in Bali and the two color plates floated rather significantly, creating a number of pleasing accidents.

A series of 4/1 postcards reproducing eight select images from Meeting Modernity, a traveling exhibition of found photography documenting Japan as it engaged with modernization and commercial photography in the Meiji and Taisho Periods of history. The Meeting Modernity series is comprised of portrait photography in particular. Meeting Modernity is the focus of my online cultural journal Néojaponisme’s first traveling exhibition. The postcard set was produced in an edition of 300 for the Los Angeles debut of the exhibition at Young Art. The rice paper envelope was designed and produced by Kate Hillseth and Paul Forney of Young Art.

Capabilities pamphlet art direction and design for trend analysis and market research agency, Five By Fifty.

I’ll be giving a lecture and doing a design workshop with Pete McCracken’s BFA design seminar class at Pacific Northwest College of Art on December 16.

A sampler of assorted logos designed for companies big and small– from sportswear giants to tragically unknown indie rock groups to award-winning directors and film companies over the past decade.

Business cards for Tokyo-based American researcher and documentary-maker Dwayne Dixon. Printed offset using metallic inks on toothy, uncoated stock.

CD packaging for Tokyo-based American singer/songwriter Adrían Zapata.

Just launched: the new and improved website! There’s a bunch of new work in here and a number of older pieces have been edited out. Ninja coding skills by the inimitable Paul Sather helped bring this puppy to life, as did expert photography by the unstoppable Jeremy Lanig. Thanks to both of these fine, fine gentlemen!

As of this week I’ve joined Temple University Japan as adjunct graphic design faculty. Pretty exciting stuff.

Below are a number of publications I had design work published in over the last year or so. I’ve had a stack piling up and sweet-talked a certain guy into shooting them for me last week.

Onward and upward…