T-Shirt Witticism by Jodi Dean.
Customized typeface, vinyl heat press.

Organic food, veganism, florescent light, farming, yoga —all practices that can benefit our daily life. The value of such practices end exactly where they begin in our lives.

Individual, lifestyle choice (consumer choice) will never challenge the very power structures that engender them.

You can watch the lecture that the original quote came from here: http://vimeo.com/27327373 (great piece!)

Occupied Real Estate
Tuesday May 8 - Saturday May 12
@ Exit Art
475 10th Avenue
New York, New York

Occupied Real Estate: Installation & Workshops @ Exit Art | not an alternative

The contemporary city is contested: the boundaries of public and private are blurred; the interests of the 99% and 1% in conflict. The battleground of contestation takes place in the streets, in the media and in public consciousness. As Occupiers capture imaginations and attention around the world, they enter the battleground in a forceful way, destabilizing ideas about ownership and use of space. This new class of ‘real estate agents’ comes equipped with the tools of their trade: those of media production and material construction. From foreclosed homes to public/private parks, to warehoused buildings and bank-owned lots, the movement reveals invisible spaces, exposing exclusions and power relations. Through anonymous acts, interventions and appropriations, they activate these spaces, building a new world in the shell of the old.

The Occupied Real Estate workshop is an architectural set that puts the production of this world on display. It is both a workshop and a studio set. Agents converge at assembly-line workstations to manufacture tools for the movement and document their practice along the way. In turning the lens on themselves, they perform a material function with an awareness of its immaterial implications.

Occupied

Been making a bunch of flyers with only a few hours to turn around. B+W flyers are intended to be printed on yellow paper, colored flyers on white.
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Radical Economies: construction, building, public infrastructure

1T Day: Horror films, B-movies

M15: construction code (yellow and barricade tape), symbolic possibility (sunbeams), highlighted traffic signs, advertising and city symbols calls our attention to the immaterial world which influences material value and market value

Six posters, two weeks, design directed content. One week on development and info architecture. DIY mobilization. Yeeesss.

Nothin’ fancy

Doing like I do, makin’ buttons.

National student debt has exceeded 1 trillion dollars

This is a first draft. The final will be 1 color (black) printed on thin, yellow card stock. Bold typography, large graphics and bit map serve to set it apart from party and OWS flyers while still referencing aesthetics associated with the movement and subculture trends.

The build out is almost complete

And I am feeling good and fortunate about working in a studio office I helped design and create.

A labor of love, No↔Space is the home-base of ∅Not An Alternative. Behind the frosted door is our multi-use room where we have our main book shelves, conference table and materials, vinylcutter, etc. for occasions like events or screenings we pack conference table and all, pull down the the projector screen and roll out the chairs.

Solar One, 2011 Program Report

With a tight budget I decided to print digitally in order to save enough costs to print with soy ink on 100% post consumer product paper through Rolling Press (they are my favorite). The cover will be printed on a special 120lbs stock with mild tooth.

See below to view spreads.

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Net-zero water and wetlands systems

Starting to develop diagrams of a Net-zero water waste system for NYC’s first Net-zero energy and water building, Solar 2. The architectural diagram is a combination of actual representative and abstracted features, essentially cut the over-technical to keep it readable.

Quick turn-over illustration

This cookbook cover celebrates international pie day as hosted in Portland, Maine by the Official Portland Pie Council. I created a heavily referential mash-up aesthetic for the cover that would appeal to a wide audience of Portland and kept it simple to compliment rather than call out the limited printing budget.

Building out a new collaborative office in Greenpoint

Made largely from found or salvaged materials. Old warehouse beams (the wooden archway with slick sliding doors) found in w’burg, Summer Streets billboards, hollow core doors as well as bits and pieces from the old co-working space. —Oh, and we’re doing it all from scratch, right down to frosting our own plexi. Huge thanks to Build It Green for many of our materials, we <3 them.

We’re just getting started but everything is already looking beautiful. 

Minimalist Website 

Working on a full website re-design; minimalist design with lots of breathing room, custom typography (based on the brand identity), and various needs informed by staff interviews.

This site is going to replace the present one, solar1.org. 

Animation snippet 

Inspired by the Open Source Ecology engineering/farm project.

Visit their site: http://opensourceecology.org/

Macinto-do!

My new Mac just came in the mail. This beast cost more than the car I bought in high school (Ford Escort 98’), it’s a crazy thing to reconcile. However, I am looking forward to a new future virtually beach-ball of doom free.