Project description coming soon.

Complete re-design, with new logotype, typographic system and grid for the second issue (Winter 2013) of MAKER Magazine, a biannual art and fashion showcase.

We designed mini-catalogues for two separate exhibitions in the New Museum’s lobby gallery — one for Judith Bernstein’s show ‘Hard’, and the other for Erika Vogt’s show ‘Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll.’

Each mini-catalog was formatted in the same way, with a roll-fold that opened up into a large poster. Both include an interview with the artist and a selection of images.

Each design highlighted an aspect of each artist’s work — Bernstein being more bold, with neon orange day-glo spot color, and Vogt being more subdued, balanced and contemplative.

For our submission to Typoshow, an exhibition of typographic posters traveling to universities throughout China and the US, we created a poster about Chinese internet censorship.

We wrote a story by stringing together a series of nonsense words from the “Grass-Mud Horse” Lexicon. The Lexicon is an online catalog of words and phrases that bypass Chinese cyberspace censors. Some terms sound like vulgarities when spoken aloud in Chinese, but when written have a different, innocent meaning, and thus evade the censors’ searches. The Lexicon is an absurdist, biting, and growing language of protest. After creating an oversized xerox of the story (with footnotes revealing all double meanings) we then had the Chinese translation drawn on top of the terms from the Lexicon. During the process we experimented with different ways of rendering the Chinese text, including hand drawn lettering by our friend Stacy Wang as well as using a range of paint markers on an old pen plotter, making each poster unique.