Images scanned from books at the Gimbel Library, Parsons School of Design.

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My first YouTube video is a collage featuring a Baroness song and a bunch of old sci-fi movies.

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I saw a Viking gravestone from one thousand years ago that looks like it was made by Keith Haring.

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San Francisco’s Mission District has the strongest visual character of any neighborhood I’ve ever visited. Here’s a photo gallery of my visit there.

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Below are three photos of surf/movie graffiti that I took last week in Bolinas, California, followed by a photo of some Bolinas surfers. Can you name all three actors and films? The first two are easy… I was hoping to surf while I was in Bolinas but the water temperature was too frigid to enter [...]

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I recently completed a zine-making project with the art class I teach for visually impaired teenagers at the Lighthouse International. A zine is a DIY homemade magazine. Our zines consist of drawings, writing, photocopied collage, Braille, and lots of John Mayer jokes.

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David Pearson designed a series of fiercely beautiful book covers for Cormac McCarthy novels. I’m a huge McCarthy fan, having recently worked my way through the vast majority of his work. These covers use inventive, lovingly crafted typography to express a violence and beauty that the novels contain. They are the best typographic work I’ve [...]

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