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…

I was interviewed in the inaugural issue of the Task Newsletter along with a bunch of other emigrés.

Identity package for fine artist and educator David Schafer.

Self-titled EP for Kind of Like Spitting.

Brochure design for Tokyo-based travel consulting and publishing group, Bespoke Tokyo.

Published by Pao&Paws in Taiwan, this book is bound in mauve, white, rose, or purple faux-crushed velvet covers. 

Edited and curated by Joshua Berger and Imin Pao

In the age of digital typography a designer has literally thousands of typefaces available to choose from. 30 Essential Typefaces is a book focused on thirty of the most useful and functional typefaces in use today. The typeface selections were arrived at after questioning of design department chairs at RISD, Art Center, Basel, Yale, and St. Martin. In an era where fonts go in and out of style in months not years, these thirty typefaces stand the test of time. 

30 Essential Typefaces collects leading contemporary design examples highlighting the usage of each of the typefaces. Each typeface contains historical information and specimen samples. The examples of usage vary greatly—and at times diverge completely from the type designer’s original intent.

Content includes essays by Cyrus Highsmith, Hank Van Assen, Wolfgang Weingart, Stanley Moss, Akira Kobayashi, and an interview with Matthew Carter. Featured works by Build, Lust, Chris Ashworth, Why Not Associates, Stephen Doyle, Margo Chase, Paul Sahre, Art Chantry, Rebeca Mendez, and others.

Within is also the results of an experiment I did by interpolating and combining all 30 typefaces, refining it into on globby piece of typographic PostScript muck. A brief essay I wrote accompanies the experiment.

Commissioned video piece for Scion’s 2008/2009 Installation tour. See the film here.

Art Space Tokyo acts as your 272 page personal guide and interpreter, connecting you with the neighborhoods and figures behind some of the most inspiring art spaces in this colossal city.

Each of the featured spaces has been rendered as a striking illustration by Nobumasa Takahashi. The book covers art spaces in neighborhoods all over Tokyo.

The neighborhood surrounding each art space has been meticulously mapped with recommendations for the best food, coffee and sights to enjoy in an afternoon of art viewing.

I contributed an essay to this book which discusses graffiti artist Barry McGee’s influence on a generation of young graffiti writers working in Tokyo, and looks at the way in which graffiti articulates the urban environment of Tokyo.