Super sweltering hotness! Time to break out the bikinis, and what better to page through when you’re lounging in the shade than a fresh and juicy new issue of Faesthetic!? This is a golden issue chockful of infinite goodness from a whole smackload of artists, including our own contribution (sneaky peek above). Rad Mountain provided a bright and shiny cover which we just adore.
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This is an alternate sketch for an illustration Gluekit did last year for Wired magazine, for a short piece reviewing the the Star Trek DVD box set. We still talk about making the Party Like a Robot shirt that we created for Data. This was a super fun sketch to mock-up (lots of scissoring and cut paper fun), but we really liked the final version that ran too.
New Gluekit poster joy! New type!
Gluekit was recently commissioned to create a very special concert poster for a new band hailing from lovely North East Pennsylvania, featuring a Gluekit relation (Brother Andy) and former Bedford bandmate (Mister Bob Lewis). The poster is for a show this Saturday, May 3, at Cafe Metropolis in Wilkes-Barre, PA. $7. All Ages. Awesome!
Gluekit likes making band posters, and we love making type.
Recent Gluekit poster for the Yale University Art Gallery!
This is for “Sound Installation: 1968/2008,” an event commemorating the “fortieth anniversary of the creative activism and public protest that occurred in the charged year of 1968.” Graduate students in theatrical sound design at the Yale School of Drama are to create three temporary sound installations, exploring political demonstrations, the division of historical and cultural experience, and the complex nature of time, place and memory.
The Yarn Flier was our stab at making a concert poster for a local production company who brings a lot of great shows to our area, including this Owen show. One ball of yarn + one upcoming show + masking tape = hours of Gluekit fun. This was a really neat poster to undertake, and we hoped that perhaps it would inspire further knit graffiti on our part. Not so (at least yet). We did like a number of photographs that we took of the project, so we are sharing both the final product (incorporated into the flier) and some close-ups.
Poster designed for a Yale University Art Gallery workshop focused on new music and art. Renowned composer Alvin Lucier (whose 1965 composition Music for a Solo Performer had EEG electrodes attached to the performer’s scalp in order to detect bursts of alpha waves– let’s just say he pushes experimental music boundaries) and I G I G I (Yale’s undergraduate organization devoted to music composition) will present performances of pieces written by Yale student composers in response to works of art in the Gallery’s collection.
Lucier actually wrote a piece last fall to commemorate his friend and fellow artist Sol LeWitt. The new work was composed in response to LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #11, which has been on view in the Gallery’s lobby– there’s a nice podcast about the performance here.
It’s really great to see artists of all kinds engaging with the work of others– a kind of cross-fertilization of ideas and inspiration– music flowing from paintings, sculpture flowing from music, paintings bursting from photographs and installations mixing everything up.
Gluekit likes when math and music mix, and when the pieces fall together just right.
Here we have a poster designed by Gluekit for a Yale University Art Gallery event that takes a closer look at great works of art by women.
We especially liked designing this type because of the contrast between the bulbous rounds and the sharp angled letter forms. X marks the spot where it all comes together– crossing boundaries, invoking new contexts, building up an alphabet bit by bit.
Gluekit loves typography.
The title pretty much says it all. This is a she-monster though. There’s also a nice sketch of a he-monster wearing the nice warm scarf she’s a-knitting, but that’s for another post on another day.
Gluekit likes notebook dreaming and scribbling droll images during excruciating long plane delays!
The above image shows a striking poster tacked up on a bulletin board and designed by Yale School of Art Graphic Design MFA students Daniel Harding and Tomas Celizna, for a talk by Dutch designer Daniel van der Velden. The poster plays with van der Velden’s play with the iconic imagery of the Principality of Sealand.
We made our own alterations to the photograph with a diagonal overlay of color which references the covers van der Velden did for Archis magazine which we were quite smitten with.
Gluekit likes those Dutch design lectures!
Faesthetic #7 just dropped and is now available, friendly folks. Buy it now and check out the reams of great art, including our piece above. The issue is a super doomsday art feast and is guaranteed to rock your world in red, black and white. Isn’t that a zebra reading a newspaper?
Here at Gluekit, we are really stoked about our submission. Honestly, Doomsday was a little dark for us. So after grappling in the dark and at the sewing machine, we went back to our roots. It worked for us, and we hope folks will enjoy the finished project.
Gluekit likes hand-drawn pattern-making, photography, and default graphic design!
Gluekit was excited to be asked to create a cover for the Fall 2007 issue of the RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. And here it is!
The issue focused on collecting and documenting the histories of diverse communities, and we tried to create a cover that illuminates how identity is constructed from component parts; it’s through various configurations, and assorted, collective efforts that diversity roots itself and takes hold. Whoo-hoo!
Gluekit loves bricks. Blank walls too.
In the spirit of our Ping Pong tee, here’s a proposal for another Gluekit shirt we hope to make some day soon. There’s just something about simple lines and spare design that makes us woozy. Bricks and stones may dress our bones, and new designs always make us chuckle.
Gluekit still loves the spreads we did for the now defunct magazine The Drama. These photo-pictorials are some of the most challenging, and most rewarding, projects we’ve done. Honestly, we’d love more chances to costume ourselves and play with language in a physical space.
We’re completely stoked that spreads from the Beating a Dead Horse project are published under Gluekit’s profile in Contemporary Graphic Design, just out on Taschen. It’s truly an honor to be included in the book.
Gluekit likes cavorting in big open white spaces!
Another band that Gluekit’s been luvin’ lately is Oh No! Oh My!
In tribute, we designed this limited edition (of one) shirt. The design’s super abstract and we’re missing the exclamation points and some key words, yes, but our hearts were dancing along with the poppy Whirlitzer goodness of ON!OM!’s 2006 self-titled album when we made this, and its blue softliness captures the bright blue purity of their melodies– so we’d like to think.
The band’s on tour right now, making some beautiful folk-pop. We hope they’ll come back to New England after their CMJ stint this October. We could to with some earnest beauty in our neck of the woods.
Gluekit hearts sweet songs and hand-claps in between.
