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Peter Kruty Editions tour on Printeresting
Our good friends Sayre Gaydos and Peter Kruty run Peter Kruty Editions, the hardest-workingest letterpress shop this side of 1940, in the wilds of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. There’s a tour of the shop on Printeresting today, which captures the essence of their operation and shows off a few of their presses, work, and collection of…
Former student Amelia Merrill
A new website showcasing the gorgeous work from the “fresh and fruity” hand of illustrator Amelia Merrill, who was my student at Pratt Institute.
Happy Birthday David Bowie and Stephen Hawking
Happy Birthday to David Bowie and Stephen Hawking! (Not to neglect José Ferrer, William Hartnell, the first Doctor from the UK’s Doctor Who, and Elvis Presley)
Kabuki-style Masks
Long before my transformation into a graphic designer, I studied theatre. Even now, I often approach the page and screen as a stage, and manipulate typography like actors. Jonathan Hoefler, designer of typefaces like Gotham and Knockout, once said that typography was the clothes that words wear. What a spectacular but simple way of looking…
More Rumpus! Illustration for Kristen Forbes’ “Dream Girl”
The Rumpus is my favorite literary spot on the Interwebs. Stephen Elliot runs an excellent ship over there. This piece, by writer Kristen Forbes, is right at home there and I was happy to illustrate it.
Illustration for Rachel Lehmann-Haupt in The Rumpus
Some of the most interesting writing on the interwebs lives at The Rumpus. I’ve created an illustration to accompany this piece by author Rachel Lehmann-Haupt. I’ve done a handful of others over the past few years.
Empiricist League event #3
The Empiricist League’s science-y goodness continues with The Bionic Science of Human Enhancement.
Rumors poster
I’ve been enjoying the opportunity to work with Emily Bolton Ditkovski, Director of the theatre program at the Williston-Northampton school. It was her production of Fiddler on the Roof that drove me to break out the watercolors for the first time in eons. Now I’m following up with the poster for Neil Simon’s Rumors, which…
Wandermonster returns: Fourth Grade!
Our long-running experiment / collaboration Wandermonster bounds into its fifth year. Every school day, I send my son off with something extra in his lunch box, next to the apple slices and juice box: a Lunch Post. It’s a post it note with half of a drawing and half of a caption. He (usually) finishes…