Show and Tell

Eames Century Modern Released

In a few short hours, the event at the Eames Office will start, releasing the Eames Century Modern fonts to the world. Come join us tonight from 7 to 11 pm to celebrate.

The Eames Office, 850 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA
7–11pm
Free and Open to all

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Ben Kiel on March 11, 2010

Unpacking

Don’t forget tomorrow night is the opening of the Eames Century Modern show at the Eames Office. 7pm to 11pm. Free and open to all. Live music from The Mattson 2, screen printing on site with David Dodde and Fresh Pressed, and meet and greet with the Eames family, House Industries designers and Erik van Blokland.

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Ben Kiel on March 10, 2010

The Mattson 2 Live at the Eames Office

We did a House Industries AIGA LA gig back in 2006 and this guy with the name “Coach” embroidered on his jacket slips me a Mattson 2 demo and whispers, “hey man…I think you’ll dig this.” Needless to say it was dug and I’m stoked that the Mattson Bros. will be playing live at the House Industries Eames Office Opening Reception next Thursday. If you find yourself in Santa Monica on March 11, swing by. I think you’ll dig them.

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Andy Cruz on March 3, 2010

House Industries Eames Gallery Exhibition

Eames Exhibition

Opening Reception: March 11, 2010, 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Where: The Eames Office, 850 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA
Free and open to the public

  • Meet and greet with the Eames family and House Industries designers
  • Presentation about the Eames Century Modern Collection
  • Live music from The Mattson 2
  • Screen printing on site with David Dodde and Fresh Pressed

Exhibition Runs from March 12 through April 1, 2010

Please join us as we introduce the illustrative beauty and cumulative functionality of Eames Century Modern with a three-dimensional tactile typographic experience at the Eames Office Gallery in Santa Monica. A cornucopia of free-standing dimensional letterforms and hand-printed installations celebrate the intricate curves and stunning stroke contrast that are the building blocks of this new font collection.

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Ben Kiel on March 1, 2010

John Mayer & House Industries

Press proof for the first in a series of John Mayer tour posters we’ve been working on. Always a good idea to get the client to sign-off on this kinda stuff.

I thought that using something from the Photo-Lettering arsenal would be a decent fit for the two Madison Square Garden gigs. To my eyes, the high contrast and sweeping curves in Ed Benguiat’s Caslon epitomize the golden era of NYC typography.

Uncut sheet with the first pull of silver, gold and a semi-opaque ninja mix of fluorescent orange on French Paper’s Blacktop .

Screen printer/alchemist David Dodde brings it home again. Call us old guys, but until they come up with a JPEG format that makes metallics shimmer like a Solid Gold dancer’s outfit, there just isn’t a substitute for physcially walking around a serigraph and watching the light bouncing off metallic and fluorescent inks.

Thick and rich.

Limited run of 300 serigraphs for each Madison Square Garden show. Go here or to the NYC show tomorrow or Friday night to find out more…

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Andy Cruz on February 24, 2010

Printing the new old way

A quick video out-take from printing at Lead Graffiti last week. Nothing makes the case for keeping good old machinery around than printing on a Universal III (first made in 1959 for pulling reproduction proofs of metal type for offset printing in the days before photo type) with brand new digital type on photopolymer plates.

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Ben Kiel on February 22, 2010

Neutraface from the Schuylkill

Neutraface in use huge at the Philadelphia Art Museum for their Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris exhibition.

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Rich Roat on February 22, 2010

Polymer Graffiti

One of the advantages of working at House Industries is that you get to use new fonts before anyone else. Ben and I spent some quality time burning some midnight oil-based silver ink at Lead Graffiti printing a poster using a stencil font from our forthcoming Eames Century Modern collection.

The poster is for Richard Sachs. If you want one, Richard will be selling them next weekend at the NAHBS in Richmond.

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Rich Roat on February 17, 2010

Gold is for the Honeys

John Downer does some gilding at Reserve.

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AIGA Jacksonville
February 18, 2010 at 6:00pm
The Modis Building

More information here.

Bookmark and Share Share   Posted by Rich Roat on February 10, 2010