Boom, our latest publication has finally landed! A work of art that explores the relationship between nature, motion and sound, The Interpretation takes us on a languid journey through a slowly flourishing forest. Hinting at vague memories of microbiology and rotating through a cool organic spectrum of greens, blues, browns, blacks and whites; this motion-based work will entrance its viewer as the forest evolves. The Interpretation is set to a minimal score filled with authentic sounds of nature, complimenting the environmental essence of the visuals. One of the movies on this DVD also features a soundtrack composed by various Ghostly Records musicians.
NowNow is an Australian born collective hosting an onslaught of exhibitions, features, mixes, interviews, and get this… they even put out their own magazine! /explosion noise.
I have been getting into graphic design from Iran again and there is a name that I always love seeeing, Ghobad Shiva. His work is varies from illustration to modernist with a strong sense of typography.
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He has a site that shows all of his works, here. Ghobad also has a new book out on his works that shows almost his complete body of work. For sure worth a visit and a bookmark.
Cinco de Mayo is a regional holiday in Mexico, primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico. The holiday commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza SeguÃn.
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I thought I would put together a list of essential latin-themed lps that can get you in the mood to celebrate (I know a lot of them are from Puerto Rico but whatever):
Mike Davis works just down the hall from us so there’s a pretty good dialogue back and forth between our office and Burlesque where he works. He’s also a huge nerd for classic graphic design and runs a blog , So Much Pileup, devoted to digging up the greatest of graphic ephemera from the high modern to post modern years (Definitely worth following). And, we should also probably mention that he’s a talented club DJ (Mike2600).
Short explanation of what you do or who you are, one or two sentences.
Burlesque is a group of graphic designers, illustrators and screenprinters. Headquartered in Minneapolis, we create graphic art for mainly music-based clients, host art exhibitsin our First Amendment art gallery, and put out music releases on our BRLSQOTHEQUE record label
Color: woodgrain
Music: Black Sabbath, Public Enemy, The Kinks, Wild Style soundtrack, MSTRKRFT
Book: Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer, Typographer
Designer: Herb.
Animal: Cobra Kitten
Website: friendster.com
Place: Space
Shape: Obelisk (no homo)
Artist: Chuck Close
Typeface: Helvetica Bold
Movie: Raging Bull, Empire Strikes Back, Goonies, When We Were Kings
Work: What?
Word: What!
Season: Autumn, even though I live in a city where the space between Summer and Winter lasts 30 seconds
Magazine: Plumpers
Guilty Pleasure: MC battles, 21st century Pro Wrestling
Distraction: The internets
Love: Hate
Hate: Love
What are you working on right now?
Cuckoo clock art print, two gig posters for Flight of the Conchords, CD artwork for anticon
What career would you switch to if you had to stop your current profession?
A.M. Cassandre produced the typeface Bifur for Peignot in 1929. Bifur broke from rigid typographic forms by combining Art Deco principles of obsessive geometry with the line and stroke of letter forms. Skute picks up Cassandre’s spirit and carries it onward in YWFT hand set fashion. And we are happy to give it out to you. Yep, that’s right, we’re giving Skute to you for your own personal use! Should you need to use Skute for a commercial project or want more letters, buy the enhanced Pro version, Skute Pro.
Yale is on point, lots of great grad work coming out of there (Hi Vance!) Neil Donnelly’s 100 Warm Jets project for instance, is an interesting exercise in process, organization, and presentation.
Artist Zanis Waldheims was born in Latvia in 1909. A whopping hundred years later I discover his amazing body of geometric work… thanks to Kevin Byrd via It’s Nice That.
 
