The ballot box is stuffed with a monkey vote: blue for OBAMA. In the interest of fairness, there are some red monkey votes for those clowns on the GOP ticket, but in a percentage that should pretty accurately reflect how people will vote in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.


If you favor Obama, please remember to vote. Especially if you live in Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, or any of those other fence-sitting states. But if you are a Republican, sit this one out. Have a beer, watch the game or Fox or whatever, but don't sweat it. Take the night off for the good of our country's future.

Art director Melanie Feindt invited me to contribute to an exhibition of postcards sent to Japan from around the world. The rules required one to remake an actual postcard. Finding a Brooklyn postcard was unexpectedly tough. I used an postcard flyer for cosmetic dentist with an office on Flatbush.

Melanie posted all the cards online. There are some great ones and each is worth seeing.

The spot hosting the exhibition, Sunshine Studio, has a really nice logo:

I read the design blogs The Ministry of Type and Ace Jet 170 at least once a week. Both focus on the beautiful and well-crafted, new and old. They are nicely designed and fantastically written with a curious, friendly and educated tone.

I wrote Ministry of Type to volunteer some info on Herb Lubalin last week. When we got some props for our logo it really made my day!

A logo by Herb Lubalin I found in the Lubalin archive at the Cooper Union.

Many of the Monkey Town calendars have secret or not-so-secret meetings specific to the time of their creation. This month, we intended to honor Montgomery Knott, mayor of Monkey Town. He's done a lot of great stuff to town, and it's looking tight.

Our friend Alex ruled the silkscreen when we printed the cards. Looking back, the image could also be about the way she wore her hair that day.

Brooklyn-based illustrator Tanya Newton-John and I just finished a mural/installation in the last bathroom at Monkey Town.

We're calling it Nrrrzrrp. It's an alien planet that's a lot like Brooklyn and Manhattan. The composition is created by wheatpasted units, prepared at the studio and arranged almost improvisationally.

I just finished designing a series of prints that I'd like to silkscreen this fall. They combine botanical photographs with some wet paint experiments from the Rthrtha video we created.

Dana and I both do a lot of visual research for when designing graphics. Some potential clients present such an opportunity to dig around that I start the research before the proposal is finalized. This is not recommended as a business practice, but, hey, it's fun.

Last winter a potential client expressed interest in 70s era graphics, cars and sci-fi. This spoke to the 8-10 year old still inside of me. The project has yet to materialize, but you never know. Regardless, it was an opportunity to unearth things like the ad above. What a rubber!

The ad came from the New York City Picture Library's Picture Collection, one of the many reasons I love NY. Support your pubic library.

Just finished this seven color silkscreen in a limited edition of twelve. Each print is a bit different compositionally.

Ryan Junell and I just finished a video for one of my favorite bands playing today, The Octopus Project, commissioned by the consistently great Peek-A-Boo Records. Dana McClure contributed some invaluable animations: her blown ink and blown paint sequences are the highpoint of the video. Fantastic illustrator Tanya Newton-John lent her sure hand to some fun two-person butterfly animations.

The video is posted at The Spirit Farm. Ryan also posted a Flickr page showing our process.

We'll be screening the video at Monkey Town this Monday, around 6:30. Please come by and say hi.