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2 January, 2019

Play Press: Communication Arts 2019 Typography Annual

Our GW monogram for Great Western Power Co. is included in Communication Arts’ 9th Typography Annual!

Great Western Power Co. is a rock climbing gym built inside a former power sub-station and steam heat plant in Oakland, California. We described it to our friends at Touchstone Climbing as “a little DC Comics: powerful and super-charged.” We hand-inked the symbol before building it in Illustrator.

Our GW monogram is one of 128 projects out of 1,653 entries that will appear in the January/February issue of Communication Arts.

5 November, 2018

Play Press: Fox and Wang interviewed by the Letterform Archive

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.

19 October, 2018

Play Press: The “Design of Dissent” Poster Exhibition in Romania

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).”

See our Trump 24K Gold-Plated poster and others under Design is Play Studio Posters.

26 September, 2018

Great Western Power Co. Identity

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.

25 August, 2018

Play Press: International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition in Ukraine

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 our “Tolerance” posters and others under Design is Play Studio Posters.

Photo courtesy of Rajko Božić.