HipHop Weekly, my night job

Hip Hop Weekly Wins "Best Magazine" at Urban Music Awards - Mixtapekings.com News

I design for them. We got an award. Check out the article. Toot!

Build me a letterpress. Do it.

Build a Letterpress & Use It to Print Things - More DIY How To Projects

Creepy can be charming

I have said it before, but I must once again recommend Steven Clay and Rodney Phillips’ A Secret Location on the Lower East Side. I reread it and it is as informative and fascinating as ever. This book, more than any other, shaped my understanding of the little magazine in the post World War II era. The pictures and bibliographies are fantastic, not to mention essential, for the Burroughs collector.
Before Clay’s book, I believed that the magazines and books of the mimeograph revolution were all made on mimeographs. Actually, only roughly half of the magazines in Secret Location were produced with that technology. The introduction states, “Direct access to mimeograph machines, letterpress, and inexpensive offset made these publishing ventures possible, putting the means of production in the hands of the poet.” Secret Location encouraged me to delve more deeply into the technologies behind the little magazine boom.

Figure it out, bitch.

Neville Brody designed the August subscriber cover for Wallpaper*. He says it's a coded reference to how he feels about his work. I can relate! I love that when I look at this I feel like I just opened a refreshing bottle of Mickeys and found the riddle under the bottle cap. P.S. The answer is I HATE DESIGN.

Non-Format, thank you for blowing my mind.

The July issue of Computer Arts has a cover design by Non-Format, featuring embossing and die-cuts that fold out to spell the word ‘BIRTH’. Portfolio: www.non-format.com