Hand Painted Type

Curator: Jesse Reed
date: November 17, 2011
Categories: Promotional Design & Advertising, Typographic Design
Tags: digital, font, hand, india, ornament, script, Type

Painter Kureshi from hanif kureshi on Vimeo.

Hand Painted Type is an effort to preserve the ubiquitous sign lettering done by street painters in India. The project aims to collect as many typographic specimen sheets as possible, and digitize them before they become obsolete. Hanif Kureshi of Wieden+Kennedy New Delhi along with a handful of other contributors are the brains behind the operation.
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Soundsuit, 2011: Nick Cave

Curator: Molly Renda
date: October 7, 2011
Categories: Experience Design
Tags: art, Fashion, music, ornament, performance
Nick Cave’s work hit me like a ton of bricks. His art doesn’t inspire envy, it inspires action. The best art experiences—across genres—are those that can ignite the energy to process and understand the work through one’s own practice. Soundsuit, 2011 in his current show at the Jack Shainman Gallery, in collaboration with the Mary Boone Gallery, is no exception. 
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