We are delighted to be profiled in today’s blog post at the Letterform Archive. Florence Fu surveys our body of agitprop over the last 25 year—with an eye on our differences: So. Cal vs. Taipei; English vs. Mandarin; Bob Dylan vs. Janet Jackson.
Read the interview online at Letterform Archive News.
Unirii Square in Timișoara, Romania
We are honored that our 2016 poster Trump 24K Gold-Plated is featured in Mirko Ilić’s Design of Dissent poster exhibition, which opened in Timișoara, Romania on October 19th.
From the exhibition statement: “The Design of Dissent is a survey of prominent graphic works of social and political protest and critique spanning the last fifty years, initiated by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilić. The exhibition in Timișoara includes a selection of graphic works created by Atelier Nous Travaillons Ensemble (France), Péter Pócs (Hungary), Yossi Lemel (Israel), Cedomir Kostović (USA), Barbara Kruger (USA), Parisa Tashakori (Iran), Jose Luis Lopez (Ecuador), Coco Cerrella (Argentina), Vitaliy Shostya, Elena Batenko, Svetlana Koshkina, Marina Chikaliuk (Ukraine), Anur Hadžiomerspahić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Chun-liang Leo Lin (Taiwan), Andrew Lewis (Canada), Natalia Delgado Avila (Mexico), Mohammad Sharaf (Kuwait), Chris Serrano (USA), Ramzi Moutran, Sabia Fatayri, Christopher Hunt (USA), Yue Chen (USA), Mark Fox, Angie Wang (USA), Juan F. Miranda (Argentina), Bruno Rivera (Bolivia), Dalida Karić-Hadžiahmetović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Wesam Mazhar Haddad (Jordan), Dugudus (France), Bukheyproject/Bulkin S., Mikheeva E. (Russia).”
Photos: © 2018 Paula Duta.
A GW monogram for Great Western Power Co., a rock climbing gym built inside a former power sub-station and steam heat plant in Oakland, California. We described it to our client as “a little DC Comics: powerful and super-charged.” We hand-inked the symbol before building it in Illustrator.
Our work is included in Mirko Ilić’s “Tolerance” traveling poster show that opened at The MostFest 2.0 in Konstantinovka, Ukraine, on August 25th. (Mark’s poster can be seen in the lower left.) We love that the posters on this wall were placed to cover earlier neo-Nazi graffiti.
Other designers whose work is also on this wall include Garth Walker, Edel Rodriguez, Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, and Max Kisman.
See both posters in our May 15, 2018 post.
Photo courtesy of Rajko Božić.
“It is extremely difficult for large, multinational corporations to credibly exemplify craft because their very structure and reason for being are generally in opposition to it. Just because a product or process is deemed ‘bespoke’ or ‘artisanal’ in a strategy document doesn’t mean that it is. Caveat emptor.”
From “Craft in action: the case for graphic designers to start with analog methods,” an interview with Allyson Marrs via The Drum in which I discuss the role of craft in design.
Read full interview online. [MF]