Making Connections

I have always been captivated by the culture and community of Craigslist. I am glad to announce a new ongoing project of mine, which takes advantage of the infamous “missed connections” section on the popular classifieds website.

For those of you uninitiated to the splendor that is “Missed Connections,” it is a section of the personal ads that is dedicated to the little connections we make with strangers on the street everyday. Say you see an attractive person everyday on your commute to work, or buy coffee from some hottie at your local cafe, but don’t have the nerve to say something. Missed Connections is a place where you can post these interests, in the hopes that the person you are talking about somehow finds your posting, feels the same way, and gets in contact with you: a romantic shot in the dark, an amorous hail-mary. I have decided to try my best to drastically increase the chances that these people actually get connected with each other by extending the message from a mere online posting in a niche section of Craigslist to a series of small, targeted print campaigns.

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Harry Caul, Jazz Performer Sketches

Some posters for my boy Harry Caul. These will help him further deceive his booty call.
This is one part of a pretty extensive branding system that is currently in progress, but I thought I would share these.

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Haiti Posters for Sale!

My poster for the Haiti Poster Project, along with hundreds of others, went up for sale today. There are some seriously awesome posters by some seriously talented people up for sale, and everything starts at just $25, so check it out, furnish your living quarters with some sweet posters, and help those who could really use it all at the same time!

Participation in the Haiti Poster Project

Oh, how I have neglected you, Mr. Blog! I have a lot of work that hasn’t been documented or is currently in progress, a new site planned for the beginning of the summer (tardy, I know), as well as some exciting news to announce: I will be apprenticing with Jim Croft, my far-and-away favorite practicing book artist, this summer in Idaho for a whole month! I expect to learn a bunch of new things and make some cool stuff, and I’ll be sure to share it with you all. I apologize for the lack of updates as of late, please stay tuned!

Now, in actually important news, I am proud to announce my participation in the Haiti Poster Project.

I have designed the above poster, which was screen printed by The Half and Half, and donated a signed edition of 50 to the project. They go on sale in two weeks, at $25 a piece, and all of the profits will go to Doctors Without Borders. This also marks the first time anything I have designed solo will be sold; exciting stuff!

View my poster on the project site

Globe Posters

Photo by Becky Slogeris

Today, I had the pleasure of taking a tour of Globe with my letterpress class. I of course forgot my camera on said life-changing tour, but luckily the amazing Becky Slogeris had her’s and was snapping away.

I was absolutely in awe of the equipment, tools, wood type and presses in the Globe shop. It was humbling to see the workspace of such authentic craftsmen, and very sad to see it so dusty and unused. In its prime, Globe was a premier provider of show and carnival posters, among other things. They have an enormous collection of wood type, one-of-a-kind etchings and wood cuts, not to mention a prestigious portfolio of work. Globe is a family run business, and unfortunately doesn’t have the money to get their huge poster presses running again just yet. They do sell stunning screen-printed re-issues of their classic posters, and they are available here: Globe Poster Classics

The posters are cheap, beautifully printed, unique and supporting an incredible business that has sadly fallen off the map in many ways. Holidays are approaching, I’m just sayyyiinnnn’. (so is Becky)

Becky’s Pictures

Objectified Screening at MICA

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Poster for MICA’s Screening of Objectified (in progress)

I am creating a poster for MICA‘s screening of Gary Hustwit’s latest documentary, Objectified. In order to do this, I tracked pretty much every object I touched throughout the course of a day and then proceeded to illustrate each one. I wanted to allude to Build‘s poster for the film, but take the basic idea a bit further and put a concept behind it. I will post the final and printed version in my portfolio.

P.S. That image above is massive, just re-sized on this page. Download it or view it in it’s own window to see some more detail.

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Every Single Object I Touched Today

I will be making a poster for MICA‘s screening of Gary Hustwitt’s new film, “Objectified“, and I was inspired by this quote from Mr. Hustwitt…

On an average day, each of us uses hundreds of objects. (Don’t believe it? Start counting: alarm clock, light switch, faucet, shampoo bottle, toothbrush, razor…) Who makes all these things, and why do they look and feel the way they do? All of these objects are “designed,” but how can good design make them, and our lives, better?

… so I decided that for my poster I would track all of the objects I use in a single day. This is pretty much everything I touch or use, excluding food, architecture, and mother earth. I know the evening is young, but here is the list I have compiled:

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Your Recession is My Renaissance.

Had this bouncing around my head for some time and threw it together. I think it, or something similar would make a fine screen print. Thoughts?

Thievery Corporation at Ram’s Head Live