Conversation Starter
2008 postcard for the Yale University Art Gallery’s Parents’ Weekend schedule of events.
In Black and Gold: Kevin Lyons
Hip-hoppity goodness! It’s a new Yale University Art Gallery calendar cover for Spring 2009 by the formidable and wildly awesome Kevin Lyons! The man behind many a Nike, Adidas, and Arkitip designs (wowser, what a list, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg), Lyons created a delightfully whimsical cover that captures the sheer toothy good nature that greets Spring after a cold long winter. Lyons is a lion in the world of street-smart, DIY graphics, having manned the helm of Stussy Worldwide and directed the creative output of Urban Outfitters for several years, all the while pumping out a steady stream of solid fresh graphics. Nowadays, Lyons holds forth as Design Director for NYC’s Anomaly and is a proud father.
And They All Fall Down
Gluekit illustration for New York Magazine last fall. It originally accompanied a review of “A Tale of Two Cities,” a play whose Broadway run ended early in November.
Che
This is a recent illustration we did for Entertainment Weekly of Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh’s new epic film Che.
Print This: “C’mon, Feel the Drips”
During our work on the Print Magazine 2008 Regional Design Annual cover and interior spreads (!!), we generated hundreds of photographs documenting our approach and process for creating three-dimensional typographic scenes. Some of these images we loved for their simplicity–others for their spatial oddness, color play, or because of the exact moment they captured. This one? Well, we love drips crawling down a white wall. Drips and splatters do feature prominently in much of our work– tactile and messy and nearly always evidence of the process at hand. And in this photo you can also spot some of the stage markings we used to indicate placement for objects. In order to create some of the visual effects on the cover, we needed to calculate the right angle and position for the various components using a whole host of techniques.
Gluekit Goes Typo!
The November 2008 issue of Grafik magazine featured the Yale University Art Gallery’s Calender Cover Series! Here’s a snapshot of the spread, which showcased covers by Parra, Mike Perry, Ryan Waller, Todd St. John and Antoine+Manuel.
We’ll be posting the slate of awesome Spring 2009 covers, with work by Kate Moross, Kevin Lyons, Cody Hudson, and Labour, over the next few weeks.
Oh Yeah!
On this historic day, the 2009 presidential inauguration, Gluekit is pleased to say “Oh Yeah!” for Obama and his campaign team.
Featured above is the pin we designed during the 2008 Presidential face-off. The pin was part of the Obama Button Project, organized by our friends at Project No. 8.
Ever So Memorable
2008 Members’ Events postcard for the Yale University Art Gallery.
This postcard was featured as a winning entry in Print Magazine’s 2008 Regional Design Annual. The issue of the Annual was a very special one for us– we created the cover and the six spreads that introduced each regional section. It was quite an honor to work with the amazing staff at Print on this project, and we were thrilled with the chance to experiment with dimensional type in a way we’d only dreamed about, using the facilities at the Yale School of Art.
The Guide’s Top TV of 2008
Illustration by Gluekit for the UK Guardian’s The Guide! This was a spot illustration for the Guide’s end-of-the-year TV commentary.
Bouncing off the Ropes
Recent Gluekit illustration of Mickey Rourke’s new film The Wrestler for Entertainment Weekly magazine!
Gluekit Character Decks
Above: some skateboard proposals from the Gluekit factory. These decks aren’t printed (yet!) but… someday…
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The Guide’s Top Music of 2008
Illustration by Gluekit for the UK Guardian’s The Guide. Pop collages like this are always a lot of fun to work on!
Dancing With the Tennis Stars
Recent Gluekit illustration of Monica Seles for Tennis Magazine, playing up her stint on Dancing with the Stars. Sparkley!
Take a Note!
Back in September, we were thrilled to be asked to participate in a giant yellow sticky project by the kind folks of Elsewhere. Their project was a collaborative poster campaign that used the motif of stickies, created by various graphic designers and studios, to paste up design across London during the 2008 London Design Festival. The limited edition and in many cases completely unique posters were free for the collecting by intrepid festivel goers. The Elsewhere site has a photo set of the posters in situ.
Our contribution was a set of neon green stenciled “Stick Together” stickies, a hand-numbered edition of twenty. You can see one in the snapshot above of one of the site installation of the project, taken at the Design Museum, surrounded by contributions by other participants!
(Photo courtesy of Elsewhere : http://www.elsewhere.org.uk/)
The Snark Monster Attacks!
Our portrait of that scary THING lurking in the corner of all blogger hearts— the Snark Monster! This illustration appeared in New York magazine this week. It accompanied a book review by Adam Sternbergh of David Denby’s book Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation. We are not being snarky when we say we enjoyed every minute of working on this illustration.
The Guide’s Top Movies of 2008
Illustration by Gluekit for the UK Guardian’s The Guide! This photo-illustration originally accompanied a piece reviewing the top 10 movies of 2008.
Make Some (More) Noise
What better way to ring in the new year (Happy 2009!!) then by making some noise! And this handy tote, designed by Wyeth Hansen, can remind you to keep the beat strong throughout the whole year. A portion of the profits have been designated by Wyeth to go to the Fresno Arts Council.
Available from Part of It for $20 + shipping.
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