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