Hello friends! You’re busy, I’m busy, but we wanted to share a couple of things that are now Real. The design process is good & satisfying, but there’s nothing as thrilling as seeing a finished object.

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Bidoun

The new issue of Bidoun magazine is out on the shelves. We took over the art direction with this issue; there are many noticeable changes, but the key transformation was in the typography. We went with Lyon, the handsome & versatile Granjon-esque serif designed by our good friend Kai Bernau, equally handsome & versatile.

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Week in Review

Also: We were asked by Kelly Doe at the New York Times to develop an illustration accompanying the article “America’s Identity Crisis” (not the final headline), contextualizing the recent debates over curriculum ideologies.

Incidentally, this piece was drawn on a chalkboard slate, for which we spent half the day hunting. The slate, roughly 4 x 6′, was acquired from a friendly Father at a parish in Greenpoint. The Catholic school on the premises, St Cecilias, had recently been closed due to a slowly dwindling Catholic population, and some of the classroom chalkboards had been disassembled, slab by slab. After picking through the selection, we found one of ideal size and took it back to the office (not without struggle, either, the thing’s as heavy as a house). Upon propping it up, we realized it still had writing left on it:

St Cecilias Forever