Parra’s recent cover for the Summer 2008 Yale University Art Gallery calendar cover series.
We are big fans of Parra and love his sexy lines whether they are black and gold or hot pink, orange and electric blue!
Hey there, friends! A great new project for a super good cause– the Friends of P site is now live!
The brainchild of Yvonne Jukes, Garrett Morin, & Ryan Waller, Friends of P is an awesome project to raise funds for the Lupus Foundation of America, in honor of their mutual friend P. The site features a great cover of The Rentals song “Friends of P” done by Toyko Police Club (watch the little record-player spin!) and the first fifty donations of $15.00 receive a complimentary (and hottt!) tote bag with a limited edition design by Garrett and Ryan, both highly admired contributors to our Part of It project. Help out a good cause and donate today!
And for those who aren’t among the first fifty donations? The tote is now available at the Part of It site.
We’re proud and very happy to announce that Wyeth Hansen’s design for Part of It, “Make Some Noise!” is now available on both natural tote bags (above, $20) and comfy unisex t-shirts ($28). The shirts are a bright white tee, which is perfect for summer sporting! It’s a really sparkling design sure to amp up enthusiasm wherever it goes! A portion of the profits will go to Wyeth’s chosen recipient, the Fresno Arts Council in Fresno, California.
Available now at Part of It. Check it out!
Here’s a postcard featuring some type play that Gluekit created for the Yale University Art Gallery. The event being promoted with this postcard was an end-of-the-year celebration for students involved at the Gallery, and their families. The play with angles and curves– which often occurs in type created for the Gallery– reference the Louis Kahn building in which part of the Gallery is housed.
Stripes still make us happy over here in Gluekit land!
By the way, the design we did for Threadless is on sale this week as part of their giganto Summer Blockbuster Sale for a delicious $12.00!
We just got ours in the mail today and are so happy with the way they turned out. We hope you will be too if you decide to order one– Threadless prints in separate editions so this is your chance to snap up a first edition of the tee!
Summer 2008 has brought another onslaught of brilliant designs for the Yale University Art Gallery’s Calendar Cover Series. Three artists created designs for this season’s calendar, which we’ll be rolling out this week for your viewing pleasure!
Our first design is from Seymour Chwast, and features his current interest in intricate all-over patterning. Chwast founded Pushpin Studios in 1954, and together with co-founders Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel, went on to create some of the most sizzling graphics of the late twentieth century. Gluekit is a huge fan of the studio’s Push Pin Graphic, which paved the way for many of the studio and designer zines of today. Great stuff– and look out below!
Last Spring, Mr. Ryan Waller did a most excellent and spring-a-licious design for the Yale University Art Gallery’s Calendar Cover Series. As he does so well, Ryan brought a sense of humor and a fine eye for detail and fun to the party. Here at Gluekit, we just loved his use of patterns– stripes, dots, and boxes– for this piece.
Also be sure to check out Ryan’s shirts and totebags (Library and Museum), available from Part of it.
We are soooo excited to release the next product for the Part of It project– smashing “Let’s Be Honest” tees and totes designed by graphic designers Ken Meier and David Yun.
We think it’s a statement everyone can support, especially in this all-important election year in the States. The totes, as above, are printed on a ravishing apple red with white Caslon type ($20), while the tees are on a fine azure blue ($28). On a purely personal level, both items are a great reminder in any context that honesty is the best policy. A portion of the sales benefit Free Press, a US-based, non-partisan organization that promotes decentralized broadcasting and works to reform the media.
Available now at Part of It!
Gluekit recently designed the cover for the 200th anniversary of the fabulous Greek film magazine Cinema. This was the first typographic cover we’ve been asked to create, and it was an absolute blast!
Here’s a Gluekit cover sketch for Dave Eggers’s novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
It’s a departure from the other book covers we were sketching out early last year, but we felt this book deserved something a little different and a little less constricted. So we went for it! For those who don’t know the plot, this novel is about a mad and grieving quest by two friends to distribute a whole lot of money according to a half-baked but thoroughly complex plan after the death of a close friend. It’s a sad, weird book that trades in emotion and oddness. It’s a book that’s also about the best-laid plans going awry, and a general unsticking of the characters in the reality they occupy. There’s a rapidity and unraveling rhythm to the plot, which inspired both the smudging of Eggers byline, and the haphazard use of taped-up type. One sequence of scenes in particular has stayed with us: the friends, in Africa, desperately trying to rid themselves of money, attempt to tape money to animals, people, and passing objects. It’s all inspiration…
Gluekit’s loving bright yellow these days!
Recent Gluekit type work for the Yale University Art Gallery.
Mike Perry’s most excellent Yale University Art Gallery calendar cover, part of an on-going typographic series which invites designers to render “Yale University Art Gallery” for seasonal calendar provided by the Gallery to students, patrons, and the public. For other contributions to the series by a serious roster of talented and imaginative artists, click here. And check out Mike’s site, Midwestisbest, for a closer look at his work.
Mike is also a participating designer in the Part of It project, for which he designed a classic tee, “It’s Just You and Me.” And as we reported last month, his design was also featured in the American Airways in-flight magazine.
Mike’s work is popping up everywhere, and we are thrilled to be able to feature some of his work here!
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.
