Copious amounts of new projects for print and web added in to the appropriate sections on here, as well as some older pieces that haven’t been made public as of yet.

Typeface and lettering design reproduced in the catalog for Alphabet. Official press release:

Focusing on an ordinary subject that we see each day, often by the hundreds of thousands, Alphabet presents 26 letters as more than just shapes for conveying information. The 51 artists and designers in this show conceive and interpret the alphabet in surprising and inventive ways, ranging from graceful and polished to witty and unconventional. The 63 alphabets featured in Alphabet were created by artists in North America, Europe, and Asia, and represent work from well-known typographers and designers as well as rising artists and design students.

The alphabets in the exhibition reflect a range of thinking about letters that encompasses the conceptual, illustrative, typographic, and beyond. Some of the artists have created their alphabets from a variety of non-traditional media or found objects, while others render their forms with pen and ink in obsessive detail. By presenting each alphabet removed from the context of words and typography, we focus on these 26 shapes as forms unto themselves rather than just the building blocks of words. The alphabets in the exhibition (all received through an open call) are shown dissected into their base elements–A through Z–freeing the artists and designers from the confines of legibility. At the same time, they are challenged to expand the experiment (usually created only to form a single word or image) into a complete system that goes beyond a short headline, the realm to which such experimentation is usually relegated.

Alphabet opened in Baltimore in conjunction with the city’s 2005 Artscape festival, and is traveling nationally through 2009. Alphabet was curated by Post Typography and organized by Artscape.

After traveling around the United States for the past three and a half years, the Post Typography-curated, Artscape organized show, Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering & Experimental Typography is returning to Baltimore in April.

Alphabet will be on display at Baltimore’s Current Gallery from April 3 – 26 with a reception the evening of April 10. The exhibition presents alphabets created by 51 international artists and designers, from well-known typographers to rising artists and design students. Alphabet opened in Baltimore in conjunction with the city’s 2005 Artscape festival, and is traveling nationally through 2009.

Current Gallery
30 South Calvert Street
Baltimore Md 21202

We’ve been cranking away on a number of web design projects as of late.

Just launched:

The brand spanking new Lullatone website. We worked extra-hard with Shawn and Yoshimi to realize their vision of how they want their band and sound design business to appear online. Print identity in the works, as well.

Also new:

Website launched for Tokyo-based WIFM Magazine, a bilingual publication that targets the most discerning of Tokyo’s populace. WIFM is published quarterly.

Tuesdays 19 May – 21 July
19:10-21:00

I will be teaching a ten-week intensive introductory typography seminar at Temple University Japan

All About Typography teaches the connotations of type & typography: the visual reading of language.

The class is an in-depth look at typography (designing with fonts) for both beginners and experienced practitioners. The class is a working examination of Western typography including lectures on type history, type classification, and contemporary practice. Practical exercises, as well as in-class critiques will help broaden students’ understanding of typography practically and critically.

All About Typography’s syllabus is based on a handful of proven typographic education projects developed by design faculty from the best graphic design departments in the world: Yale, CalArts, London College of Printing, and Cranbrook.

The class will conduct projects to explore typographic expression, learn correct typesetting practices, and increase design acumen: how to say things clearly with graphic design.

The class will host guest lectures by some of Japan’s top graphic designers.

The class is Mac-based, but will apply equally to PC-based environments.

Course reading:
Thinking with Type, Ellen Lupton
Assorted handouts

More information:
www.tuj.ac.jp/cont-ed

The past two weeks have seen both Craig Mod and the AQ crew lecture the web design class I teach at Temple University. Thanks, Craig, Chris, Paul, and Eiko!

My commercial typefaces are now available through Plazmfonts.

Yacht? Yacht!

New tour shirts for 31 Knots European Tour in the Apparel section. New identity for SEPTAP, the Special Education PTA of Portland in the Identity section.

My typeface Rubber Vloeren is now being distributed by Linotype.

I’ve been working with friend and producer Ryotaro Bordini Chikushi to create these new sweatshirts. The prototypes came in recently:

The garments are a custom cut by current Rehare fashion director/former Issey Miyake fashion director Erika Ohashi. They feature a typographic pattern that I curated and designed. The concept behind the pattern is “World Peace”. Ryo got a number of popular designers from all over the world to contribute the word “peace” in their particular written language system, which I then wove into a roll pattern. The contributing designers:

• Stefan Sagmeister – Latin 
• Alexander Gelman – Russian 
• Oded Ezer – Hebrew 
• Behrouz Hairiri – Farsi 
• Ahn Song-Soo – Korean 
• Da Wang – Chinese 
• Dai Nippon Type Organization – Japanese

The sweaters will go on sale this spring, limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide for men and women. You can read more about the project here.

Supergraphic for Cafe Pause‘s 5th Anniversary, taken from the recent tea tin labels, are now up at the Cafe in Ikebukuro.

New tea tin packaging is out for Cafe Pause in Ikebukuro.

Just finished the “Tokyo Fashion & Inspiration Handbook Tokyo 2009” for Five By Fifty for Pret a Porter 2009. The Handbook includes introductions, maps and essays about five of the most inspiring places in Tokyo.

Just launched: the freshly redesigned Rap-Up.com.

Some old typefaces are in the Type Design section now, as well.

The fine folks over at Pinball Publishing just posted an interview with me for their awesome company blog, CoinOp. Thanks, Laura!

Just completed a brand spanking new website for Nicole Fall, co-founder of urban safari company Bespoke Tokyo and trend analysis & market research agency Five By Fifty. Five by Fifty will be representing Tokyo this year at Prêt à Porter Paris.

Home after a month-plus jaunt across the U.S.

I was lucky to be included in Scion’s latest Installation art tour and was flown out for Miami Art Basel along with all of the other artists on the tour. The opening was really nice and I met a ton of really interesting folks as well as seeing some old friends. Thanks very much to Ray and Karen for inviting me to be on the tour and making it all happen. I appreciate it very much. Thanks to Ray, Acme, TTJ, Patrick, Yem, Codak and Skypage for ferrying me around Miami. You guys rule.

The tour will be stopping in Phoenix, DC, Minneapolis, NYC, San Jose, Philly, PDX, and LA. Check out the schedule here.

I got to design the eighth in Pinball Publishing’s designer card series recently and they came off the press the other day. Hot pink and lime green soy inks on recycled white cardstock with rounded corners. More pics soon!

The text from the brief for my recent workshop at Pacific Northwest College of Art following my lecture to the senior undergraduate students:

“A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.”

-R. Buckminster Fuller

The city of the Future needs to be peopled with utopian citizens, humans seeking to realize their ultimate potential in the utopian city.

As the graphic designers of the future operating at the crossroads of culture in the city of tomorrow, what other cultural roles will you incorporate into your Utopian City/Self? 

We will work together to create and illustrate aspects of a collective, modular potential citizenry of the future. We will be projecting ourselves into the future to design our ultimate selves of tomorrow.

The students, the instructor Pete McCracken, and I worked together to create a modular poster/supergraphic utilizing analog processes. It was really fun.
Thanks to Pete, Paul, and the radical PNCA participants!

The Meeting Modernity series of found photographs is the focus of Néojaponisme’s first traveling exhibition.

Recently unearthed outside of the city of Sano in Tochigi-ken, this series of pictures documents Japan as it engaged with modernization and commercial photography in the Meiji and Taishō Periods. The series is comprised of portrait photography in particular.

The exhibition makes it’s sophomore appearance at Reading Frenzy, a small press emporium and gallery in Portland, Oregon (kitty-corner from Powell’s Books) on this very Thursday. Meeting Modernity is accompanied by a trio of essays by Ian Lynam, W. David Marx, and Matt Treyvaud reflecting the collection of photographs, the history of Japanese photography, commercial art, and Japanese society.

A limited edition of full-color Meeting Modernity postcard sets from the previous exhibition in Los Angeles’ Young Art will be available at Reading Frenzy.

MEETING MODERNITY
January 8–February 1 2009

Opening Reception: Thursday January 8, 2009 6–9pm

More: Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak St. Portland, OR 97205 If you are in Portland, we heartily encourage you to visit the exhibition.

In other news…

I have an essay that I wrote and design in the latest issue of Idea Magazine about the current state of logo design. The issue is titled “How does graphic design CHANGE?“.

Probably the last post of 2008. New work added in Print + Product: boombox & packaging design for Rap-Up and Lasonic’s limited edition ghetto blaster and a one-off skateboard for Lesque. New in Apparel: an old shirt for Point Line Plane.

Also, James Chae interviewed me for Graphic Hug here.

For December, the final month of 2008, Néojaponisme has only been running “2008: The Year in Review” mini pieces, covering various topics from the year that is/was. Within, we discuss the finer points of Japan’s economy, political system, pop culture, and technological progress!

If you happen to be in Sundance country in less than a month, go peep The Clone Returns Home, directed by Kanji Nakajima, executive produced by Wim Wenders, produced by the wondrous Hikari, and graphic design by myself. Hikari and I just returned from a wondrous international sojourn across borders and deadlines to bring the film an updated name and identity informed by JAXA’s early identity explorations as much as Dutch Modernism. If you are in town, GO SEE THE MOVIE! You’ll be pleasantly surprised – it’s in a similar vein to Paris, Texas‘ rheumy/rummy displacement combined with Cha No Aji‘s timing. I’m super-duper-amped to be associated with this film in one fashion or another. I love work from the dawn of sci-fi and this film carries that torch unabashedly while being wide-eyed and beautiful and wholly original. The cinematography is insane and I was happy to give it the graphic workup it so needed.

Someone went and got twin tattoos of the logo I designed for Yacht! Other folks have gotten tattoos of other band logos and artwork I’ve done, but this is the first photographic evidence in the past few years. Good stuff.

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.

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.

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.

I have a number of logos I designed featured and analyzed with expert care in the Rockport book Really Good Logos Explained.

Artwork for Wieden + Kennedy’s new book W+K Tokyo Lab Tokyo Ten. I worked on the Hifana “Disconnect” video included on the DVD.

Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein of Klein Dytham architecture, clients extraordinaire, are on the cover of Axis Magazine at present… and lo and behold, Mark’s wearing the shirt I designed for them.

A collaborative project by Edith Abeyta and Judith Thissen part of the CO-OPs program initiated by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) seeking to understand the processes of commercialization in the cultural field by launching an art beer. The brewery and atelier is located at the University of Utrecht. Robert Tower is the brewer.

My collaborative beer sleeve that was designed and conceptualized with Michael Gentleman was featured in the exhibition and exhibition catalog.

Néojaponisme was given a glowing writeup in Theme Magazine a while ago. Our writing and design got the thumbs up. Whew!

Step Magazine gave my book Parallel Strokes a really nice write-up.

I had a few work samples printed in the Laurence King title One Hundred @ 360.

I had my Tokyo.Future video featured in Grafik Magazine’s article on QOOB.

New essay about Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica published in Idea Magazine No. 331. 
New interview with the mighty Lullatone on PingMag. 
A number of my logos were published in Los Logos 4.
I have a piece in this new show in Brooklyn.
I also have a piece in this new show of WKTokyoLab work in Los Angeles.
Meeting Modernity, the new Néojaponisme traveling exhibition of found photography, debuted at Young Art in Los Angeles. It opens next on January 8th in Portland, Oregon at Reading Frenzy.
New website for White Rabbit Press’ Tokyo Realtime.
New logo revealed for the 2009 PDX Film Fest.
Otherwise, still manning the helm at VLU and Néojaponisme.

Ricardo Cordoba wrote a really comprehensive review of my book Parallel Strokes on the design criticism website Speak Up. It is probably the “best” review of the book that has been published in that it looks at the book holistically and face-forward, giving honest criticism and being very thoughtful.

New line of board graphics for Tokyo-based skateboard powerhouseLesque. See the Instrument and Letterscape boards here. See Shinichi Ito’s and Junichi Arahata’s pro models here. Itoshin is the sickest pro in Japan today- check it!

New essay in the latest issue of Idea about the movie Beautiful Losers. 
New video for the song “Day Ditty” by Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think) and E#Vax (Ratatat). 
New tee shirt for Graniph.
Opening next month in Los Angeles for Meeting Modernity, Néojaponisme’s first travelling exhibition.
Moji Salvage, a new series of mini-essays and historical samples of lettering for Néojaponisme.
A new podcast of Japanese punk, hardcore, thrash, and d-beat for Néojaponisme.
A new sketchbook, greeting card set, mini notebooks, and another greeting card set for Tenth and Grant.
Music video and design/illustration work in the much heralded new book, Tokyo.Ten, from Wieden + Kennedy’s WKTokyoLab.
Also, a new poster in the WKTokyoLab show at Claska in Tokyo.
New logo for Yacht.
Upcoming: 
An essay for the first Brand New School monograph.
Video installation for Scion’s latest Installation tour. It opens in Detroit at C Pop Gallery on October 4th. The tour will also be exhibiting at Art Basel Miami.
New website for photographer Patrick Tsai.

The first news update in 5 months. Ouch. Lots has been happening, but have been much too busy to update this site properly. With luck, a site redesign will happen at some point sooner than later, along with a major content update/turnover. What’s been up:
– Rap-Up magazine got a major facelift and Rap-Up TV launched with anew intro animation
– PDX Film Fest 2008 identity, ads, bumper, and apparel
– Strategy music video
– animated short film for Qoob/Alfa Romeo
– Open Hands Acupucture (Portland, OR) identity
– Norman Lazerine Architecture identity
– poster for the Arroyo Arts Collective (Los Angeles, CA)
– identity refresh for Klein Dytham Architecture (Tokyo, Japan)
– identity for DreamForce One (Johannesburg/Tokyo)
– assorted stationery for Tenth and Grant (Portland, OR)
– identity for Field Office Films (Portland, OR)
– a new, not quite ready website for Black Wagon (Portland, OR)
– posters for a group show in St. Louis, MO
– identity for Atelier Christely (Paris)
– identity for Igloo Projects (NYC)
– brand books and product books for Nike Asia South Pacific
– book design and logo refresh for Yacht
– essays for Art Space Tokyo, Idea, and others
– new pattern series, photo series, and essays for Neojaponisme
and a ton of other stuff. It’s been a busy 5 months!

My new book, Parallel Strokes, is available now via the book website. It isn’t officially being released for a week, but…

About Parallel Strokes:
Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering. Interviews within include conversations with pan-European type design collecitve Underware, Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi, American graffiti writer and fine artist Barry McGee/Twist, German graffiti writers Daim and Seak, American lettering artist, graphic designer and design eductor Ed Fella, among others. Parallel Strokes is an enquiry into the history, context, and development of lettering today, both culturally approved and illicit.

Full list of interviewees: 

• Akira Kobayashi 
• Underware 
• Ed Fella 
• Delta
• Jerry Inscoe/Joker
• Jens Gehlhaar 
• Daim
• Seak 
• Jonas Williamsson 
• Handselecta 
• Tauba Auerbach 
• Lady Pink 
• She One
• Eklips AWR/MSK 
• Eskae
• Renos 
• Mike Giant
• Chaz Bojorquez 
• Barry McGee/Twist

The result of six years of research in the combined arts of lettering, graffiti, and typeface design, Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews some of the best letterform creators in the world today.

Chaz Bojorquez talks about the origins of barrio graffiti in Los Angeles and the evolution of the craft. Fellow Angeleno, vernacular graphic designer Ed Fella, speaks about his history in lettering and how he earned the title “The King of Zing” in Detroit design and illustration circles. Famed Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashidiscusses Roman and Japanese letterforms while showcasing a lifetime of type design work. European graffiti writers Daim, Seak, and Deltashare their thoughts on dimensional graffiti lettering while American graffiti writer Mike Giant talks about vernacular lettering, typeface design, and the evolution of graffiti handstyles.

Parallel Strokes is richly illustrated throughout, featuring copious previously unpublished work by the interviewed artists, as well as supplementary illustrations and photographs detailing contemporary and historical trends in graffiti and type design. The first 100 orders come with a two color 17″ x 20″ Parallel Strokes poster printed using recycled paper and soy inks at Portland, Oregon’s Pinball Publishing.

Parallel Strokes is 244 pages thick and available for $20 with free shipping worldwide.

The holidays are the best time for catching up on unfinished projects and getting around to things like updating websites. A number of new pieces of work have been added to the Print, Publication, Web, Apparel, and Identity sections. Projects include an identity for Tokyo-based writer Jean Snow’s production company M31; the art direction and design of the monograph Pecha Kucha Night: A Celebration for Klein Dytham architecture (along with apparel, event, and print design); tee shirts for AFI; a poster for Cafe Pause in Ikebukuro; and a website for San Francisco photographer John Mullin.
Not included in the update but coming soon: a website for former PingMag editor Uleshka, a number of RFP projects for Nike SE Asia, identity for NY/LA film production company HKM, identity for Portland film production company Field Office, a CD for Marxy, and a lot more.
It was a good quarter for writing and getting work published. I have a few projects featured in the new monograph One Hundred at 360°, was interviewed in Task, had work in Grafik and Territory magazines, and a few other places. The first installment of a new 3-part visual essay I did is up at Néojaonisme about the year 1974. An interview withUnderware was posted there recently, as well. Art direction, illustration, and editing remains a weekly effort. I urge you to spend some time there. We have a number of amazing articles coming up including work by Amos Klausner, E*Rock, David Schafer, and others. The supplementary print version will be released in the upcoming year, as well.
And speaking of print projects….

Feature on LePigeon in the New York Times. It’s a really great feeling to see your work in established places like the Grey Lady. My biggest hope when I started designing was to be able to help shape visual culture for interesting independent clients, and it’s great to see it working.

New article up on Neojaponisme interviewing typographic masermind Jens Gehlhaar.
I made some fiery background movies for YACHT‘s live shows- go see him in your town!
Finished a RFP broadcast redesign for GOOD magazine recently- only certain parts are being used so far, but hopefully more in the future!

I started a little record label a few months ago. It is called Mold. The first release is a 7 inch record by Craig Wedren (of Shudder To Think) and E#Vax (of Ratatat). It is on splattered green vinyl with an etching on the B-side. It is a limited edition of 300, 200 of which are now gone (primarily here in Tokyo- surprise!). Releases by YACHTand E*Rock are forthcoming.

Just updated with a bunch of work from the last six months. Added a mini Motion section that will be added to in time. Waiting for a few things to be released first.
Neojaponisme just launched. It is a new online magazine edited byDavid Marx, Jean Snow, and myself. It will be a regular compendium of writing on culture, history, and design, as well as featuring new work by artists and illustrators. I’ll be making editorial graphics/illustrations regularly, as well, and it’s been great so far- a series of same-size illustrations using the same color palette and deconstructed typography. Those will start rolling out tomorrow with a series of articles.
The Alphabet show will be opening soon at Cooper Union in New York. Info:
Houghton Gallery, 2nd Floor
7 East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue
New York NY
October 11 through 27, 2007
Gallery Hours: Weekdays 11am-7pm, Saturday 12pm-5pm
Opening: Thursday, October 11, 6-8pm

Still never gonna be able to update. It’s like Struggle Inc. up in here!
Just finished the identity for Nke SB Films, who are about to drop their first release, Nothing But the Truth– the most anticipated skate film since Yeah Right.
Also, congratulations to LePigeon for being chosen as the top restaurant in the Pacific Northwest by Bon Appetit magazine!
Recently completed this video for WKTokyoLab’s instrumental hiphop duo Hifana, as well as contributing to the packaging/identity design for the “Connect” CD+DVD.
Thanks to Charlotte, Simon, Matt, and Simon for a rad stay in the UK!! Whooo!

Never going to be be able to update!!
I posted a bunch of new video work here. It includes all of the PDX Film Fest videos, including the web debut of the 2007 bumper, and a PSA for GOOD Magazine on Electronic Waste.
In progress: identity for Nike, mini-documentaries for GOOD Magazine, Rap-Up’s latest issue, identity for Robin Frank Management, websites for Indecent Exposure, Shine Advertising and Cardinal Communications, as well as a bunch of other stuff…
I am currently designing a certain design and cultural criticism publication that will be launching shortly, as well. More on that in a week or two.

Too busy to update still. The former Beautiful/Decay font is now the house font for YACHT, one of my favorite musicians in Portland. I made an identity suite for him recently including a fancy insignia, the typeface, and some other goodies to be revealed later on down the road. 
Finishing up this year’s Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Fest stuff now… go see the shows!!!

Busy busy busy. Proper update won’t happen for a while- big things going on. New article here.

New motion piece up here. I did sound for the “Love” piece, as well.

Kyle Evan Lynam R.I.P. You are missed.

I had a type design experiment, a bit of writing, and some work I designed published recently in the book 30 Essential Typefaces for a Lifetime. I can’t really vouch for the book, as I haven’t seen a copy, yet, but I hope so. Cyrus Highsmith, Akira Kobayashi, Wolfgang Weingart, Matthew Carter, and Josh Berger all have writing in there, as well, so I have high hopes that it’s rad.

In Sapporo for the Snow Festival. Just amazing.

Graniph just released my first sweatshirt design for them- a vintage-feel weathered velour pullover crewneck with a gold and black embroidered crest on the chest. Hot, hot, hot.

Just finished a music video for O. Lamm, whose new album just came out on Audio Dregs. E*Rock is on tour, so the video won’t go up on their site for a while. For the folks who actually check out this site on occasion, I have posted it here.

New article up over on PingMag titled “Toward Design Literacy:Essential Graphic Design Literature”.
Also, two new fonts of mine are available via Wordshape. The first is called Inversion and the second is called Vorganger Grotesk. Both are revivals of old German lettering.

New article up on PingMag about the life and times of Dutch design rocker Harmen Liemburg.
Garage Gear’s women’s line added to apparel section.

It appears that FontShop’s last issue of Font Magazine has sold out. You can download a pdf version of the feature article I wrote about graffiti for that issue here. Please download it to conserve bandwidth, as opposed to opening it via a browser- it is print-resolution and will take ages to view in a web browser.
Work-wise, doing a number of shirts for Velvet Revolver and some identity projects in the works.

Happy New Year! Looking forward to exciting stuff in the New Year.
Just finished up a rasher of apparel graphics for Meat Loaf and cooking up some other fun stuff.
I was just interviewed over at Portland’s fashion/style/culture blogUltra.

From Fontshop’s latest e-newsletter:
MADE WITH FONTFONT: THE BOOK
“Made with FontFont”, edited by FontShop co-founder Erik Spiekermann and Dutch writer-designer Jan Middendorp, showcases the history and influence of the award-winning foundry. The book is replete with real-world examples of FontFonts in use, from high-profile ad campaigns for big automakers and fast food giants to iconic poster designs for the Tyson/Tubbs heavyweight battle in Tokyo and New York’s Shakespeare in the Park.
“Made with FontFont” includes art and articles by Strange Attractors, John D. Berry, Peter Bilak, Neville Brody, Susanna Dulkinys, Eboy, Rian Hughes, Max Kisman, Akira Kobayashi, LettError, Ellen Lupton, Ian Lynam, Martin Majoor, Albert-Jan Pool, Paula Scher, Christian Schwartz, Nick Shinn, Fred Smeijers, Studio Dumbar, and xplicit.
“Made with FontFont” is a companion to “FiFFteen”, an exhibition celebrating FontFont and FUSE. The show has been traveling internationally, with previous stops including Barcelona, Berlin, Helsinki, London, and New York. “FiFFteen” will open in Los Angeles in the spring.

This weird string of apparel items for dead Beatles continues… new shirts for Geaorge Harrison in the Apparel section. Bizarro.
A new article up on PingMag about the life and times of designer Sean Tejaratchi and his clip art zine, Crap Hound.

New issue of Rap-Up on newsstands now and in the Periodical section. New tee shirt collections for the Beatles and John Lennon, as well as one more for the Dirtbag. Garage Gear women’s line dropping shortly.

I just finished an article for Ping about LOST, an amazing Los Angeles graffiti zine and about some aspects of L.A. graffiti that intrigue me. I am particularly interested in the influence of blackletter (often called Old English in the U.S.) lettering on L.A. graffiti. The article includes a world premiere film about the work of Atlas CBS, a highly influential and active L.A. writer. Due to the volume of information covered, Ping is using an edited version of the article. The full-length version is here.

4 new Garage Gear shirts added to Apparel section and a sampling of the Motorola iRadio genres design added to the Identity section.

Gocco print done for the Wurst’s I Heart Gocco show is featured front and center in Jill Bliss’ Gocco article in the inaugural issue ofCraft Magazine, published by the folks who publish Make magazine.

Identity for Portland clothing boutique Yes aded to Identity section. Just did a graphic for Digiki’s latest Polypunk, as well.

Five new shirts for Japanese clothing boutique chain/line Graniph are in the apparel section, as is a new shirt for Paul Stanley. The new Rap-Up is at the printer, and many projects are afoot!

Just finished this interview with Chris Duncan (Keepsake Society/Hot+Cold) for PingMag.
Developing identities for Gus Van Sant’s new feature film, “Paranoid Park” and for his new film production company, Tsetse Fly Film Co. Those logos have been added to the logo subsection of the Identity section. New shirts for Paul Stanley (KISS) added to apparel. New shirts for Bob Seger in the works. New logo for Entertainment Consumers Association, a video game advocacy group in the logo section.

Long needed, this site re-launches. Loads of new work in here, including a brand spankin’ new poster series for West Seattle Aikikai, fully developed identity system for Portland’s Le Pigeon restaurant including a new site design for them, as well as an extranet for the press, identity design for Garage Gear clothing, apparel graphic for Dirtbag Clothing, and more! A ton of new stuff in the works, as well. Identity design for Yes, an indie clothing boutique in Portland, apparel graphics for Barbra Streisand’s upcoming world tour (!), some stuff for Alice Cooper, identity design for Portland’s Renegade Food Club, and some new business cards for David Schafer.

The new issue of Rap-Up just hit newsstands. It has been added to the publication design section. New shirts for Sanrio posted in the Apparel section, as well.

New identity pieces posted for Bodhi Vela Cole and Le Pigeon. 

New article for Ping Mag up here.

New shirts for KISS posted, as well as shirts for The Cult in the apparel section. Recently finished redesigning Rap-Up’s new website.

Just finished up a website for amazing Portland/LA fine artist Anna Fidler. Her work is a mind-blowing adventure into the realms of form and craft. It must be seen in person to be believed. 

Also, new article for Ping Mag up here.

New article for Ping up here. The new issue of Font Magazine, Number 005, is out and features an article I wrote about graffiti. You can obtain a copy for free here.

The PDX Film Fest kicks off tomorrow. The animated bumper has been completed, as has all of the Festival identity materials. All will be posted here soon. 
Check out the Fest schedule here.

More info on the piece for Font here.

New stuff: latest issue of Rap-Up in the publications section, and a brand spankin’ new website for Colleen’s Bistro. 

Coming soon: tee shirts for the newly reformed Cars (sans Ocasek, unfortunately), shirts for Sanrio, apparel collection for Dirtbag, tees for metal phenoms 10 Years, and a ton more…

New York MOMA has acquired the entire Hot and Cold catalog, including the issue of Hot and Cold whose cover I designed, as well as the poster for Issue #7. 

New article for Ping up here.

Recently completed: identity design for Fever Films, a division of Canada’s largest film production company, Avion. The print work won’t be up here for a bit, but check their site here. They are really great at what they do, and severely nice folks, to boot! (If a client gives you the kind of unrequested shoutout as they did in their News section [discovered as I was typing this!], then you are a very happy designer.

Newly written and published in Tokyo’s PingMag: an interview with Akira Kobayashi, designer of FF Clifford and author of the best book on Western typography that you’ve never read.

Rubber Vloeren is now being distributed by Plazm, as well as Wordshape. The Fever Films ID work is up now, as well.

New logos up in the logo section for The Cult, 03 Cafe, Persona, Royal Cheapskate Clothing, Edith Abeyta’s show “Seems Familiar”, and the Expressions Art Festival.

I have some work up in a new show: I Heart Gocco at Half and Half, 923 SW Oak Street, in lovely Portland, Oregon. The show was curated by Jason Sturgill and his super-rad Wurst Gallery. It’s a Valentine and Gocco-themed show. A series of 50 signed and numbered three-color prints for the show are available through the Wurst.

I would like to formally announce that Wordshape, my new type foundry, is officially open. The first three releases are revivals of historical typefaces that I have finished over the past few years. A few new designs by myself and others will be released later this year, as well as some apparel and a few secret projects in the works. 
The coaster set that I designed for the Tenth and Grant product line is now available from their website, as well. They are printed on thick, 100% post-consumer recycled paper in 3 colors with soy inks. Each set contains 8 coasters each of 2 different patterns (16 coasters total) in custom die-cut packaging. The coaster patterns are inspired by European geometric patterns and Japanese illustrations from the 1950s and 1960s.
Recent type design project added for Bon Appetit Magazine.

Happy New Year! A passle of new work up here: apparel graphics for Billy Joel, a website for Dry-shod, and the new issue of Rap-Up is on newsstands now. 
Related: typeface design for Hofstra University that I helped Mr. Sloan out with a while ago. Also, some work I did was published in this fancy, naughty little book.

Two new websites launche d: ThoughtLab and Kilauea. 
Added: apparel collection for Royal Cheapskate in LA and apparel graphics for metal band Taproot. 
Some writing of mine will be published in the catalog for FIFTEEN, FontFont’s celebration of 15 years of existence as a type foundry. 
I will also be curating a section of the next issue of Font Magazine wi th Wesley Wong on graffiti and typography.

It only took three and a half years for the leopard to get an update.

Just launched: website for Grow. 
ID design for Grow, as well as their promotional book added to both Publication and Identity sections. 
I am currently developing a series of custom stationery sets, coasters, and datebook/organizers with Pinball Publishing for their new product line Tenth and Grant. I am very excited about the outcome.
I currently have work in The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves, and Sarcastic Hippies at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco that is open from October 7 to December 30 curated by Hot and Cold.

Bumper for PDX Film Fest 2005 now on here, as well as Carole Ambauen’s website. Six months later, artist and educator David Schafer’s websiteis finished and live, too. Rubber Vloeren typeface used in Destiny on the High Seas spot for The Pork Council.

The PLUSHTASTROPHE is landing in LA at Black Market this week. 
Just finished and soon to be posted: custom typeface for Hofstra University in N.Y. with Mark Sloan; identity design for Grow, a positioning consultancy in Portland, OR. 
BNS’ new reel uses a few examples of my typefaces, as well.

Finished up this site for FunFlopps of Santa Barbara this week. Some new logos for Yahoo Games, Manhattan Beach Brewing Company, Blogsmith, and a few others are up in the logos page, as well. 
There was a big article on Rap-Up in the New York Times last week, which had covers of the mag reproduced. That was pretty exciting, especially considering my snide comment in here a few weeks ago. 
Working on some new identity stuff which’ll be up here soon enough, as well as the new Rap-Up, which will feature illustration work by Upso and some other folks.

Just finished a SimpleViewer-driven mini-site for my dear friend and collaborator Carole Ambauen. A ton of new work in progress. Soon: a few new ID projects, the 2005 Peripheral Produce catalog, some apparel graphics, and a few websites, too. 
I just had a few fonts published in the catalog for Post Typography’sAlphabet show. I’d imagine copies’ll run about $5 postpaid from them. It’s a rad catalog with work by E*Rock, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Jean Larcher, Ken Barber, and Elaine Lustig Cohen, among others. Really cool project. 
I got interviewed for the New York Times Magazine’s article on Underware’s Bello two weeks ago, but got stuck with the title “one designer”. Pretty awesome. So much for national press coverage.

The always awesome and super-talented folks at Underware have somesamples of Bello in use that I did up on their site. Also, I have some work in this great show of type and letterforms in Baltimore currently.

Still no time to do a proper update. A ton of new work to be posted as soon as a free day happens. New stuff for loads of metal bands, the PDX Film Fest 2005, and a bunch of other projects. 
The latest installment of the Wordshape zine My Alphabet (vol.20) is being exhibited at Alter Ego, an exhibition of graphic design at CalArts as we speak.

Plushtastrophe show in Chicago! 
Just completed a series of shirts for the band ColdPlay, as well. Those’ll be posted after they get printed.

Moved to Tokyo fulltime yesterday. Please note the new contact address. Americanos, I will be checking my voicemail regularly, so feel free to leave messages and you will be called back promptly. 
Just finished and soon to be posted: Identity positioning and custom typeface family for Ignited Minds to launch shortly, tee shirt designs for Yahoo Games, and a few other projects. Check out a hint of what is to come for the PDX Film Fest here. 
I will be djing at Super Deluxe in Roppongi for the “Animal Lounge” #3event presented by Coin Coin Magazine with Mumbleboy, Koshiro Torisu,Otogai, and others on April 26th.

Just completed Pony’s mini-site for IBA World Heavyweight Champ James “Lights Out” Toney.This site was created with Preston Goforth and Steve Thompson for Pony. 
Just finished: Identity design for Rap-Up Magazine, illustrations for Mike Mills’ feature film “Thumbsucker”, 200 pattern designs for Boeing, and logo designs for Kapsule, Comcast , and a concert series being presented by Miller Lite and the Surfrider Foundation. All will be posted soon. One big change is going to happen first, though…

Costa Rica is nice. Go there. 
I will have work at BlackMarket Gallery in LA in September as part of the Plustastrophe travelling stuffed animal show that I have been participating in this year. A bunch of comics that I published in the 90s by Al Burian have been collected into a graphic novel by Microcosm. Al is a really amazing writer and cartoonist. His zine, Burn Collector, is one of the most astute and wry batches of writing out there. I cannot recommend it enough.

Busy month! Four new web projects about to launch for various companies. 
Curse of the Birthmark 7″ about to drop on 333 Recordings, as well as a new site for them soon, as well. Snatch one up before they get on eBay! 
Just finished up a logo design for Red Bull which can be viewed in the Logos section for a Holga camera photo contest that they will be having in short order. 
A number of other Red Bull projects will be posted shortly, too.

Just completed a revamp of the GBMI website.See it here. 
Posters by myself and Topher Sinkinson of makelike are available on eBay now. They are the posters for the PDX Film Festival and a film event by Matt McCormick and James Mercer of the Shins, as well as some other cool posters by Pinball Publishing. You can check them out here.

Two additions in the web section, one new and one old. New: portfolio site for 86 the onions. Old: website for Transworld Surf photographer Brian Bielmann.

NEC “U Can Change” campaign added to Motion/Broadcast section. New projects are currently underway and will be posted shortly.

Work added again: the Dieselfx identity typeface is in the type section.

Work has been added: ColleenÃs Cafe and the Tri typeface. 
Check this project that was done with Max Erdenberger and Logan. 
Work published in the latest CMYK. 
Ancient link: this was done maybe six years ago for Geoff Farina’s Cyborg page.

Work is currently in two exhibitions: 
Plushtastrophe! 
and 
The MEGA ZINE SHOW 
Sanctuary Artsite, Burlington, VT 
Sanctuary Artsite 
47 Maple St. 
Burlington, VT 05401 
(802) 864-5884 
Opening October 15th, 2004 
6-7pm Press / Media / V.I.P. 
7-9pm Public 
After party @ The Tiki Lounge 9pm – 2am

A lot of stuff is in the works. I just finished a modular typeface for a Loganproject for the WB TV show oeSteve HarveyOEs Big Time.” The typeface will debut in the portfolio section soon, along with the Dieselfx typeface. 
I finished the identity redesign for Colleen’s Cafe while in Portland a few weeks ago. The signage is in place, the cards will be at the printers shortly, the menus are already printed, and jpegs will be in here soon, as well. 
We are in the midst of making seven webfilms for NEC at 86 the onions, as well as doing some work for Simple shoes, Sobe, FuelTV, and a number of others. 
I just finished up so me tee shirt designs for M Publications there, as well. 
Check out 86’s fantastic photo editorial on the manufacturing process of the pencil in the newest issue of Big Magazine. 
Also up and running from 86: Project Hello.

Quickie: see the 333 Recordings minisite, logo, and jpegs of the 7 inch sleeve system I designed for them here. 
Records by Drop the Lime and Crack: We Are Rock out now, with a Deerhoof single up next.

4.20.04 
Welcome to the inaugural news entry. 
The latest issue of Beautiful/Decay magazine has hit the newsstand with my typefaces.
The PDX Film Festival was a smashing success- apparently the poster, ads, programs, and the titles were very well-received.