We designed this op-chart for yesterday’s NY Times with an overview of 15 uses of budget reconciliation since 1980. A noticeable point being that current partisan opposition to the usage of the rule is rather hypocritical.
The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne mentioned (but didn’t show) the chart yesterday on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Even more mail from Bill
Thanks to Mimi Zeiger for including The Holster (our publishing project) in her essay about ‘mutant’ publishing in the current issue of Junk Jet:
“For Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner and Soner Ön, the Brooklyn-based trio who makes up The Holster, publishing is performative. It calls attention to the act of making, even if that act is really just stapling some laser printed sheets… Armed with laptop and printer, they publish in real time, straddling the gap between intimacy and automation.”
“An evening of films that might have been. I will try to explain why they were undertaken and why they were abandoned. It could be a lesson in how (or why not) to make films.”
Robert Gardner at Light Industry: Friday, February 23 from 7–10pm.
Thanks for the mail Bill!
We’ve just recently launched a new store phase of The Holster, a website that archives and distributes self-initiated publishing projects.
Happy birthday to my new niece, Margot Muriel Lubliner!
The Offending Adam launches today!
GOOD’s Most Popular Infographics of 2009, here.
A little feature from a collection of interviews with former TDC scholarship recipients.
(Thanks Ned!)
A couple of our illustrations made it into the New York Times’ really cool Notable Opinion Art of the Year feature. Thanks Kim (and whoever else was responsible)!
Bike rack outside the studio.
We did a little (large in scale) chart for today’s New York Times Op-Ed of some intriguing Army and Marine Corps survey responses. There’s a beautiful seasonal Ed Ruscha piece on the adjacent page in the print version.
In 1970, Italian performer Adriano Celentano created this song called “Prisencolinensinainciusol”, which roughly translates to “Universal Love”. I’ve often wondered what non-English-speaking people think American’s sound like. In the US, it is quite common to hear people speaking ignorant gibberish forms of Chinese, Italian, French, etc.. This is a piece touching on that concept, but I assume he already new some English. It’s quite remarkable. And Sasha Frere-Jones thought so too.
RIGHT NOW: 22°F, Feels Like 8°F
Photos by Michael Hutcherson of last night’s In & Out book reception in Cambridge, MA.
Charlie Rose talks with Nan Goldin, Luc Sante, and Whitney curator Elisabeth Sussman in 1996:
NAN: It comes from the Velvet Underground, early 70s. It was an enormous influence on me… as a teenager
CHARLIE: Just like the music? What?
NAN: No, it made me want to grow up and be a junkie.
Jim Henson, “Time Piece” (1965)
We designed a little ‘bug’ to accompany a new series of editorials for The New York Times discussing some rather significant political and fiscal issues going on under that Romanesque-Revival Capital Building roof in Albany. Read them here.
A quote from Phil:
“It’s like a spam email until it says something real”
I wrote a short thing about bridges as intermediate places for Middle of the Road, a collaborative poster project curated by Robin Cameron and Denise Schatz. It’s a really great project with amazing contributions from Jacqueline Di Milia, Jason Polan, David Horvitz and many more… check it out.
IRL kerning workshop for Typography I @ Pratt
Oct. 2-4, is the NY Art Book Fair put on by Printed Matter at PS1 in Long Island City. Our artist zine project, The Holster, will have a ‘Friendly Fire’ table where we’ll be featuring a new installment of zines to our Demand & Supply series. We’ll also be partaking in a conference session with Whitney Museum librarian, Carol Rusk, and fellow publishers TBWbooks and Evil Twin. The session, Is Print Really Dead? Artists (Still) Making Books, will take place Friday, Oct. 2 at 4pm at PS1.
Two project references in one.
I was searching Google Books for a scan of Shakespeare’s Henry V while researching an upcoming project and found this version, which must have been previously shelved in a middle school library. Click the thumbnail for the first few pages.
Jason Polan drawing on the ceiling last night.
I picked up Aram Saroyan Complete Minimal Poems from Ugly Duckling Presse at the Brooklyn Book Fest today (which was great). It’s hilarious and amazing and worth picking up.
“Big Brother with a happy face.”
Listen to Kurt Andersen discussing our contribution to a New York Times Op-Art about redesigning the Homeland Security Advisory System. We’re big fans of his, and of the other designers that contributed ideas, so this was a real honor.
Got $50 to spare? Why not support the AIGA? Scott Stowell and I are co-chairs of the after party for this year’s AIGA Design Legends Gala going down Thursday night at the Waldorf-Astoria. A guaranteed good time, and also Serifcan’s birthday.
According to the Observer, our back (Atlantic) yards are now going to be in the hands of New York City based architects SHoP. If this project is going to happen, we’re happy(er) to have it in their hands than the previous architecture firm. Although the article states this is to be a collaboration between the two???
We’re honored to be one of 16 recipients of the 2009 Ideas That Matter grant from Sappi. Funds from the grant will provide new communication materials for our identity redesign of the NYC-based educational NFP, Border Crossers. See the full list of recipients here.
Some stuff to read by David Grann (who wrote about Cameron Todd Willingham for the current issue of the New Yorker): An amazing profile of middle-aged child impersonator Frédéric Bourdin, and this piece about aryan prison gangs (PDF).
Found at Skyline Books over the weekend.
Please help us identify this intruder to our studio:
Just an enormous, green-eyed mosquito?
A mosquito from the Amazon? A pre-historic wasp? Email us with the answer and win a prize.
Mel Brooks, The Critic (1963)
We just posted a few photos we took at the Emeco factory back in February in the first phase of designing their 2009 catalog. Check ‘em out.
Welcoming Bark Hot Dogs to the hood/stomach.
His universe of nerds and jocks, socialites and misfits, rockers and rebels – not to mention overbearing principals, clueless teachers and absentee parents – influenced a generation of movie-goers and -makers, versing them in a common language of pop culture idioms that persists decades on.
Click here to download an unofficially republished ‘zine I designed in 2007 of Vacation ‘58, John Hughes’ 1979 short story that eventually became the screenplay for National Lampoon’s Vacation.
First Person #3 is almost done
Former Soft Skull publisher Richard Nash writes about what’s next for him and the book publishing industry. Read it.
Kevin Nguyen, of The Bygone Bureau, has a nice interview with us and fellow GOOD Magazine Transparency contributors.
Read “GOOD” Design
Walk-thru at the Waldorf-Astoria for the AIGA Gala afterparty.
Conversation with my dad while watching the 9th inning of Mark Buehrle’s perfect game.
Listening to:
If you’d like to see some more photos of our studio, our good friend Adrian Lai just posted a set of then on his Flickr. Check them out here.
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Machine Age
Studio7Arts
Overheard on the bench in front of our studio:
“I’m just going to sit here and rest. Before I go home I always sit here and rest. I don’t have a garden. I don’t have an outside. This is my outside.”
Rode up to Long Island City to visit a printer for the next issue of First Person. Stopped off to grab lunch at one of Brooklyn’s best Mexican spots on the way back to the studio:
Working on something:
“… he sees himself as a Jewish comedian working firmly in the tradition of Jewish comedy greats like Mel Brooks and Andy Kaufman, whom he considers to be great conceptual artists.”
Can’t wait to check out Dan Graham’s retrospective which opened last Thursday at the Whitney. There’s a great conversation between him, RoseLee Goldberg, and Ian and Matt of Japanther in a book we’re working on that documents their Performa ‘07 show at PS 122.
Flatbush Rainbow
Come visit us this weekend at the NYC Zine Fest. We’ll be there with a laptop, printer, stapler and paper cutter, offering a new collection of zines from some of our favorite artist friends as part of a print-on-demand project we initiated with our studio mate Soner Ön.
More sad news for the neighborhood: One of our local subway stops is getting a new name. We’re currently looking into renaming the Bergen 2/3 stop ‘Fogelson-Lubliner’, which would compete with another local stop and frequent movie set, Hoyt-Schermerhorn, for the weirdest station name in the entire subway system.
We’re currently working with DER, a documentary film distributor in Cambridge, MA. Among the hundreds of films they distribute is Robert Gardner’s Screening Room Series. A television show that aired in Boston during the 70s, that showcased experimental animators and filmmakers like John Whitney Sr., a pioneer in computer animation. This is from 1961 and was made entirely on a computer built from a converted WWII Anti Aircraft mechanisms.
Lunch at Freddy’s
Emeco Gehry Bench,
auction floor
Emeco Gehry Bench,
auction monitor
What we’re listening to:
Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Killing Joke: Peel Sessions 1979-1981
Girl Group Sounds: Lost and Found (One Kiss Can Lead to Another)
Soft Machine: The Soft Machine
King Crimson: Red
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Sings Newman
It’s very pretty, but so’s Maine.
Brooklyn Larder lunch
Studio Springtime
Now that Frank Gehry is gone,
the shadow that could potentially cast itself over our studio has gotten even darker. The Times calls the current plan for the Atlantic Yards “as glamorous as a storage warehouse,” which could be an overstatement given the charm of our local storage warehouses.
In semi-related news, a one-of-a-kind Emeco bench designed by Gehry is up for auction this Friday. All proceeds go to the Hereditary Disease Foundation. If you can come up with 500k, we’ll see you there.
Backwards Neons
Congratulations to Fanny Howe for receiving the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize. We’re currently working on a book with of a recent collaboration between Fanny and Robert Gardner that combines her words with 87 Polaroids he took during the filming of his 1988 documentary Ika Hands.
Two months after our one year anniversary we’re proud to finally launch this website. Forever a work in progress, please check back frequently for new work and daily updates.