VOX POP LA

I am pleased to be presenting tomorrow at VOX POP LA, hosted by the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography at ArtCenter College of Design. This symposium gives some airtime to alternate American narratives, and is filled with amazing posters I look forward to examining more closely tomorrow. But wait! Isn’t that work in the front window from St. Louis? Art Center is hosting the suite of posters we made for Cast and Recast, an exhibition about St. Louis’ type houses Central and Inland type foundries. For this project, my friend and collaborator Ben Kiel made a revival of Gustav Schroeder’s 1880 typeface, Geometric Italic and we released beta versions of the face to St. Louis designers who made 23 political type specimen posters with the new face. We were proud to give more than half of the proceeds from poster sales to the Ferguson School district, as a tribute to the kind of change we would all like to champion through education in our city. Thanks to Ben and all the St. Louis designers who gave their time and talent to this project.

I spent the night in Pasadena and LA catching up with old friends and making several new ones and generally galavanting around the city. My CalArts classmates Daniela Marx and Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton and I spent part of the day visiting the posters of our hero, Sister Corita Kent of Immaculate Heart Academy in Los Angeles. Corita is the original teacher with a calling, who taught her students to give a damn, and to approach the world with curiosity, careful close observation, faith, and passion. If you don’t already know about Sister Corita, you can see her amazing posters here.