last spring i volunteered at the green fab up at ssbx - the sustainable south bronx. the program there is for high school students coming from the bronx guild school - they can apply to the green fab program and learn all about bits and atoms and sustainability.
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well it’s been a long time since i’ve seen anything that touches the spirit of the simple, bold and amazing graphics of otl aicher for the 1972 munich olympics, seen above.
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so i will be in the company of some fellow makers tomorrow at this market! jackson heights, queens from 10am - 2pm… a small window so make sure you get there early for all the goods! swigg merch is priced to mooooove…
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my mom was in town this week and we took the opportunity to visit the new MAD or museum of art and design where we checked out the slash exhibit. everything was made from cut paper and the sheer patience it takes to create these works was impressive. lee was captivated by adam fowler’s explanation of the ‘quiet intensity and concentration that comes from a meditative state’. lee likened it to ‘a thumb suck’ whereby the artist is metaphorically the baby. i highly recommend going to columbus circle to check it out - the architecture of the new space is equally enlightening - make sure to start at the top floor and walk down the stairs as there is no shortage of interest there! loving their logo too…
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so we have the honor of being featured in another book called made & sold. it was curated and designed by the folks over at FL@33 in london. we can be found in the toys section as well as the miscellaneous section. curt meissner from small factory design is also featured as we collaborated on the pandabox collection together! we are surrounded by many talented designers thru-out the book - make sure and check it out! it can be purchased at amazon but also look for it at your favorite independent book seller!
swigg critters, swigg fungi sculptures, swigg stars and the little twin cub and the big twin cub from pandabox collection are featured.
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continuing with the theme of bringing the studio site header to life, this assembly of drafting instruments seems to fit in well. i got a few of them from my grandfather who used to do a lot of measuring for fine woodworking. additionally i got some from my parents who used to run their own interior design company together. now my mom does interior renovation design on her own and my dad oversees welding fabrication. they both let me design their logos!
VIEW: work: identity: joan wenzel
VIEW: work: identity: fcf
one thing that helped me decide on the studio site header was that it could be openly interpreted depending on the viewer… is it a bookshelf? the city skyline? trees in the forest? a group of colored pencils? the answer is yes to all of those things. the plan is to gather as many analogies as possible… your feedback is welcome!
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in the course of creating a new space for swigg studio to live online, we have also done some re-arranging of the studio itself. lots of editing and making room for more, well… inspiration. some times being surrounded by so many projects can not only clutter your surroundings, but also your mind. so we took the time to assess, organize and simplify…
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been working on this new experiment with daily responses and indexing of color which can be entered into my personal database called ‘dailybase’. don’t have all the sections figured out but more to come soon… any ideas or suggestions, feel free to comment!
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