It’s been a bit since I’ve updated. So much going on!

1. Used my gocco to individually silkscreen almost 2,000 coasters that Nina Mettler designed for her amazing wedding:

2. Photographed a great Southern Wedding for Selena Faye Hodge:

3. Became a band booking agent and started booking shows for the bands Nightmare Cats, Unorganism, Centennial, and The Goddamn Team-Players

Yes, this really happened, here is the evidence:

Nightmare Cats playing at Monkey Town

Unorganism playing at Death By Audio

Bruce of Centennial playing at Monkey Town

Nightmare Cats and Wilson Novitzki playing at Pianos!

Even got to letterpress some posters for the shows!

4. Working at Johnson and Johnson for the past few months as a designer on the Oral Care team. I have a new found appreciation for my teeth and all things Listerine!!

very different from today’s listerine, found via design muse

5. Teaching at Pratt’s Manhattan campus! I’m excited to post some work from my students last semester, as well as post work from the coming semester as well. If all goes as planned, we’ll get to go on some amazing studio visits!

Looking forward to posting more than I have been, and going to see Mixtape at the Jen Bekman Gallery before the show closes on January 9th!! Come with!

Feelingstape #2 by Kate Bingaman Burt

I’ve been keeping myself pretty busy and far away from the internet (okay, so maybe not that far).

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and Alexander Campos organized a show at the Center for Book Arts called Racism: An American Family Value. The show was amazing, and I’ll be posting some pictures soon. If you are living or visiting in NYC, you should be sure to go check out the exhibit before it closes.

For opening night, Amos printed some amazing postcards.



The Jen Bekman Gallery has a new show up that I checked out on its opening night. Summer Reading has work from some of my current favorite artists & photographers such as Kate Bingaman-Burt, Kelly Shimoda, and Alec Soth.

I have to admit I really enjoyed Kelly’s I guess you don’t want to talk to me anymore series:



Since I moved back to New York, I’ve also been going to see a good bit of music.

Last night I saw a band called Buke and Gass. It was one of the best sounding live shows I’ve been to this year, and I can’t wait to see them again soon. They’ve got some pretty interesting instrumentation (I think). If you’re in New York on August 29th, you should come with me to see them.

Photograph by Grant Cornett for Buke and Gass (stolen from their myspace):



Today some of my favorite people (Christopher Doyle & John Banister) are in performing Rhys Chatham’s “A Crimson Grail” along with 198 other guitarists and 16 bassists at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park Bandshell. The New York Times has a nice write up about the event.


I’m also in the process of uploading some vernacular type images from my Mississippi to Colorado trip. Check some of them out!

whew.

Key lime cheesecake? Check.
Artichoke Casserole? Check.
Coconut Pancakes?? Triple Check.

As I began my “I will cook all my meals or else” journey, one of my friends suggested that I check out Taste Spotting. When I asked her what it was, she replied with: ” Sarah, it’s totally food porn.”

Taste Spotting is a ” community driven visual potluck.” The description is fitting. I dare you to take a look at it, and tell me you don’t want to make everything and anything that you see pop up. It’s setup like we love typography, but instead of type lovin’, you get a whole lot of foooooooood lovin’.

Here’s what I made this weekend:

The Center for Vernacular Typography defines vernacular type as: “Letterforms selected, created, or applied by persons whose occupation is not derived from regular work with letterforms. ”

The dictum of CVT is “Document, catalog, research, and share.” Hopefully I’ll be building quite a library of vernacular typography to share!

Southern Typography Photographs



West Coast Photographs



North East Photographs

Flickr Group for adding Vernacular Typography photographs!

If you were a runner on the track at McCarren Park on either day of the fair, you probably also got a sweet look at the goods for sale. Many of the tents were set up around the track.

Overall the fair showcased handmade jewelry, stationery, limited edition prints, and clothing (of course there was lots of other stuff too). I photographed a few of my favorite things while I was there:

Skylark Studio











Cleo Dee’s














Nervous System








Photosynthesis








Up In the Air Somewhere








V & M











and lastly,
Bow & Arrow

Yeah!

On the way, Christopher and I made stops in Nashville, D.C., and Philadelphia to see friends and one of my two sisters. In Philadelphia I got to meet up with an awesome textile designer and super good friend, Alexis McVicker. She showed me some of the patterns/etc. she’d designed while working at Anthroplogie and Urban Outfitters. Alexis wearing one of my favorites:

Somebody want to buy this for me? Please?

It was a lazy trip to the city, as I didn’t go crazy to see all the sites. I mostly concentrated on seeing friends, the few interviews that I had, and . . . the FOOD.

I really like to eat.

Some of the really amazing places I went were:

Blackbird Parlour in Williamsburg

Miracle in Parkslope

Soho Natural in Soho

I’m excited to be back there in two weeks for at least the next two months. It’s too bad that I’ve challenged myself to not eat out for one month. We’ll see how that goes.

this post actually dates: May 19th, 2009

MSU AIGA group (I was their faculty advisor. Be aware, this is but one sixth of the group):

Pix(elated!) Opening (MSU AIGA 4th Annual National Student Competition and Show):

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Letterpress Workshop:

An Independent study I did with Carl Carbonell called Get American:

And Finally, a Letterpress Workshop with Brad Vetter from Hatch Show Print:

this post actually dates: May 4th, 2009