Fan Letter NYC, pt 2 (& hi!)
So, being the dutiful new (been working at Rumors for a month now… hi! I’m Ho-Mui.) intern, I went to support Holly at Fan Letter last night at The Cooper Union. It was delightful.
Y – yay, hollyg!!! go womyn.
Fan Letter NYC
If you’re in the New York City area on Tuesday evening, we hope you can join us at Fan Letter NYC. The event is being held in conjunction with the book launch of Lettering & Type, by Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals of Post Typography. Twenty-six local, national, and internationally-based designers and artists give a two-minute ode to an alphabet letter or typographic character, and we’ll be talking about the letter Y.
Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
The Herb Lubalin Study Center Gallery at The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
Reception and book signing at 7:00, Fan Letter begins at 7:45.
This event is free and open to the public.
More info here.
Hope to see you there!
West Coast Tour
We’re excited to be presenting our work at a few colleges in California over the next week. We hope you can join us at either of our talks:
Thurs. Nov. 5th at 7pm
California College of the Arts
5212 Broadway, Oakland
Update: We had the location wrong! Its at the San Francisco campus, Graduate Building 1111 8th St.
Mon. Nov. 9th at 7pm
CalArts Graphic Design Visiting Artist Lecture Series
24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia
Many thanks to Jon Sueda from CCA and Caroline Park from CalArts! We’ll also be giving a workshop at Otis College of Art and Design on Wednesday—thanks to Erin Hauber.
Goodbye Zack
We wish our summer intern Zack Seuberling best of luck with future endeavors. Zack, we’ve learned a lot from you, and we hoped you’ve learned something from us.
Among Zack’s Words of Wit and Wisdom:
“Rule #1: Stay Positive”—truer now than ever.
“Hot dogs certainly aren’t for everybody”—fact, not fiction.
“No blood, no foul— that’s all you need to know to play street ball”—no explanation necessary.
A toast to you, Zack, the man, the legend. We may have forced you to blog and join Twitter, but as you put it yesterday, “who knew after three months in New York I’d been eating dinner with Karel Martens and singing karaoke with Project Projects?” Future interns, you’ve got some pretty big shoes to fill.
Commercial Type blurb in Print magazine
James Gaddy wrote a nice little piece about the website we’ve been working on for Commercial Type In the October issue of Print. Sneak preview of the site below!
Illustration in the New York Times magazine
We were so excited to contribute to this past Sunday’s New York Times magazine, an article by Clive Thompson that provides “a look inside the emerging science of social contagion.” Other designers / illustrators / artists who did an amazing job: Carin Goldberg, Julia Hasting, CatalogTree, Nomoco, Julia Hasting, and Shout. The cover typography was created by Chester Jenkins.
“Is Happiness Catching?” 9.13.09 Check out our interpretation here.
The Many Faces of Kurt Russell
In honor of the man, the myth, the legend, every Tuesday for the month of September, the Adapted, Rumors and Chad studio will be showing a curated collection of Kurt Russell. Details inside.
Sorry about last time
I forgot to introduce myself. I am Zack, the Rumors intern. I came from Ohio and now I live here.
Yesterday, in a heat induced rage, Renda broke the basketball hoop. (Sorry to break it to you this way, Andy). We have a passive aggressive note wall for a reason, but I guess she just couldn’t take it anymore.
Update: Renda’s official statement is that she broke it trying to save the planet. I just report the facts, people; you decide.
I’m freezing here
There were a lot of expectations for this inaugural post; I have to be funny and smart, right? I might get fired if it isn’t.
Note of interest: Rumors has fake fired me at least 3 times—once for not winning a single hand in poker (as if the shame weren’t enough). They later rehired me when I returned with potato chips. Then I dealt Andy four aces. Fire THAT.
Anyway, it’s not actually freezing right now. It’s after hours and the air conditioner is off. I don’t want to rack up a huge electric bill (and then get fired).
New Identity for Lift
We worked together with Rob Giampietro on a new identity for Lift. Previously known as National Student Partnerships, Lift is a national non-profit that connects college students with communities in need to combat poverty on an individual level.