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solar decathlon stools
i made 2 of these folding barstools over the summer for the carnegie mellon solar decathlon team house. i wasn’t too happy with how they came out, so i never took very professional shots of them. this one image was shot on-site in washington dc by neha thatte, showing the unfolded chair. when folded up, the whole chair becomes a single slab of white oak, with two aluminum cross-pieces.
i am almost finished with a “real” version of this chair design, made out of ash, in regular seating proportions. i’ll post pictures after i give it one more coat of finish, hopefully by the end of the week.
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Tags: chair, furniture, solar decathlon
typeface
after years of taking notes and drawing in graph paper notebooks, i’ve developed an ultra-simple, all-uppercase style of writing. i’ve been slowly building a portfolio website over the past week or so, and it occured to me to try to reproduce my lettering style in the design. i couldn’t find any fonts that really worked (print clearly was pretty close, but not quite), so i decided to make my own typeface using illustrator. i haven’t implemented it on the site yet, but here’s a sample, with the underlying graph paper grid.
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Tags: font, graphic design, type
infinity plus
for some reason i was obsessed with this symbol i found in a book of op art last summer (repeated 4 times here). i can’t really say why, but the expression “infinity plus” always goes through my head when i look at it.
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light fixture
when the light fixture in my room got full of dead bugs, i decided to take it down, and make one of my own.
it’s made out of:
- a 12×12″ square of acrylic (purchased at a flea market)
- a page of slides of the german countryside (purchased as part of a record set at jerry’s records in pittsburgh)
- an insanely yellow holly branch (found while walking in squirrel hill)
it’s been there for over a year, but i just now happened to take some decent pictures.
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Tags: design, light
pgh camo
2 summers ago, i made an attempt at creating a camo swatch based on pittsburgh imagery, colors, and map shapes. the results were interesting, but not especially polished. you can see the steelers logo and the 3 rivers pretty clearly in the designs. ted galperin made a similar attempt later that year, since the idea had been born in a conversation between us. if i can get ahold of it, i will post what he came up with as well.
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Tags: camo, camouflage, pgh, pittsburgh
more book covers
a few more interesting covers i picked up today at east end community thrift, on penn ave.
this is a grim one. i love the weird purple chosen for the woodcut part.
this is actually the back cover of what i think is a biography of francis ponge, part of a series. the french phrases and “architectural” fake perspective are very strange, with almost no heirarchy of information.
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Tags: archival, book covers, books, graphic design, modern
modern book covers
a collection of several vintage, modern bookcovers. book collecting is a hobby of mine, but i must admit i often buy books based solely on the charm of their covers.
found at half-price books, dated 1962. bought in the gift store, as evidenced by a type-written card found inside asking for visitors to refrain from photography.
a classic book, with an oppressive, bold cover. found at a thrift store somewhere.
ultra-simple 3 color cover. very interesting contextual criticism, as well. bought at a church rummage sale.
i’ve never even read this one. it was printed in the 80s, but looks much older to me. bought at east end thrift, in pittsburgh.
what could be simpler? bought at a sidewalk book sale, carnegie mellon university, pittsburgh.
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Tags: archival, book covers, books, graphic design, modern
anew
a host of objects and images, amassed and aggregated, curated and classified by daniel letson
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