Alex Pines
Jan 15, ’14
1:24 AM
What are you thinking about these days? What ideas are important to you in your practice?
Super generic but I’ve been thinking about print and digital publishing. I was turned on to this book recently (http://monoskop.org/images/a/a6/Ludovico,_Alessandro_-_Post-Digital_Print._The_Mutation_of_Publishing_Since_1894.pdf) by Silas Munro. Ideas important to my practice is the idea of a shadow practice, thanks to Ed. Picking up the remnants my graduate thesis and trying to find ways to put a bow on them.
Is your leisure influencing your labor, or vice versa? Do you feel like you’re leading a double life?
I am absolutely leading a double life. I tried to reconcile my background and involvement with hardcore music in to something more general and failed epically. With that being said, the visual forms from hardcore punk records and flyers inform my practice today. Which has its roots in old commercial art and design tools and production.
Bio:
Alex Pines is a designer for SCI-Arc’s Office of Publications. His interests include early 80′s hardcore punk, skateboarding and pizza snobriety.
J. Stephen Lee
Jan 15, ’14
1:11 AM
Bio:
J. Stephen Lee is an illustrator, graphic designer, animator, and educator. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Wonk
Jan 15, ’14
1:03 AM
Wonk is a versatile and quirky typeface and ornament system that combines geometric, biomorphic, and 2- and 3-D forms. Spontaneous or controlled, this modular typeface enables a user to construct various simple or complex shapes into letterforms. Its diverse palette of parts allows for a built-in process of play and enables discovery and imagination. Conceptually, this font is a type treatment that both subverts a kit-of-parts and subverts parts into a kit. These posters reflect how other designers have engineered Wonk. The phrase “I am apart (a part) of the system” highlights the irony of creating something that appears to be unique or customized, when in fact it’s made from basic uniformed components.
Typeface and project organized by David Karwan, 2013
Facebook Artists in Residence Program Fall 2012
Dec 27, ’13
9:05 PM
The Facebook Artist in Residence program brings in a diverse range of artists to work on campus alongside employees as a means to energize, inspire, and challenge the community. We value the contagious nature of creative production and the connection made when witnessing a work in progress. Bringing in relevant art projects to the campus reinforces our ideal work environment and encourages original thinking. The catalog is a documentation of our first group of artists.
