Another night of inneraction

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The Inneract Project, with support from the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA, hosts its annual fundraiser A Night of Inneraction on December 8, 2011. Tickets available for purchase online or at the door include wine, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, DJ, and 2 raffle tickets.

Raffle items include: signed 7 x 7″ prints Hills like white elephants, Untitled (Montpelier), and Untitled (owl) (L to R, above); a signed copy of Paula Scher’s new book Maps; signed books from Stephen Heller, James Victore, Carolina de Bartolo and Erik Spiekermann; signed posters from Michael Beirut and Eric Heiman; and three titles from local publisher Chronicle Books.

When: Thursday, December 8, 2010 from 7-10 p.m.
Where: 144 King Street (across the street from AT&T Park), San Francisco

Inneract Project is an AIGASF professionally-supported program providing free design classes and workshops to inner-city youth to foster interest in design fields and help channel kids’ creativity into viable career paths.

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Clean

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An experiment with layering and transparency. In this image, the Boy Scout Law was hand drawn, then cut from paper and layered over a photograph, behind lightbulbs.

Letters and lightbulbs and presidents, oh my!

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I hope this finds everyone well post-Thanksgiving. I’ve been busy creating new drawings for prAna’s Spring and Summer ’12 apparel catalogs, as well as the February issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. And I relaunched my website earlier this month to better feature a portfolio of lettering, portraits, animals, and spot illustration. Stop by if you have time—I’d be honored if you’d take a look.

 

You will obtain your goal if you maintain your course

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You will obtain your goal if you maintain your course is the sixth entry to a series featuring fortunes. Photographs were taken at Cato’s Ale House in Oakland, California, in 2011.

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They’re not going to get us

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Featured in Fingerprint No. 2

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Seven recent projects are included in Fingerprint No. 2, The Evolution of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design, released August 11, 2011 by HOW Books. Authored by Chen Design Associates, the book features work from 85 agencies and individual artists including Taxi Studio, Stefan Sagmeister, Volume Inc., Jason Munn, Elixir Design, Altitude, Helms Workshop, Brezinka Design and Landor Associates, among others.

The book follows on the success of Fingerprint (2006) and—as its title suggests—showcases the evolution of handmade design since. The 224 page hardcover is available for purchase here.

Page 78: Back to school, detail from We’ll eat you up—we love you so!

Page 79 (clockwise L to R): Untitled from Yosemite, detail from The Mallards of Gill Bridge, Everything will now come your way, London Calling, Hills like white elephants.

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Everything Is Going to Be OK

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I am pleased to be included in Everything Is Going To Be OK, a new release from San Francisco’s Chronicle Books. A diverse group of creative talent—including Rigo 23, Jen Renninger, Vlatka Horvat, Mike Perry, Anthony Burrill and many others—enliven the hardcover book’s 96 pages with artworks bearing positive and inspirational texts.

From the author: In letterpress, photoshop, pen and ink, needle and thread, the artists in this book dare to wear their hearts on their sleeves; dare to shake off negativity and cynicism; dare to hope, to dream, and dare you to do the same.

You’ll find Stop searching forever, happiness is just next to you on page 75.

Everything Is Going To Be OK is available now at Chronicle Books, Urban Outfitters, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and a host of independent stores.

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Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought

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Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought is the fifth entry to a series of fortunes, each hand-drawn and overlaid onto photographs of my sons. Photographs were taken in Truckee, California, in February 2010.

Initiated in late-2009, the ongoing series includes: Stop searching forever, happiness is just next to you; Everything will now come your way; Sing and rejoice, fortune is smiling on you; and Long life with friends & family is yours.

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A Night of Inneraction

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The Inneract Project and the San Francisco Chapter of AIGA will be hosting A Night of Inneraction on December 9, 2010. The event is a fundraiser for Inneract Project, the professionally-supported program providing free graphic design and architecture classes for inner city youth.

Attendees will enjoy a raffle, wine, hors d’oeuvres and music by DJ Jack Frost. The first 50 people to arrive will receive free letterpress cards of artwork created by Inneract Project students. In addition, silk-screened limited edition signed prints by designers Kit Hinrichs and Woody Pirtle will be available for purchase for $45 each. All proceeds go to the Inneract Project to help keep classes free and to turn kids’ love for art into design careers.

The raffle will include a signed 6 x 18″ print of Seasonal Migration (shown above) as well as signed books by Michael Beirut and Stephen Heller, signed posters by Paula Scher and Milton Glaser, and (4) VIP tickets to the deYoung & Legion of Honor among many other items.

When: Thursday, December 9, 2010 from 7-10 p.m.
Where: Project One, 251 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

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Vespers

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Vespers is a recent collaboration with my wife, Jennifer Tolo Pierce. The series was photographed at Cato’s Ale House in Oakland, California.

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Vespers
By Jennifer Tolo Pierce

Rewind
past the piles
of unwashed laundry
the too-small bed crowded
with the sleeping sprawl
of children—
Past the broken toy
cars, the missing buttons,
the gummy mouths wet
with spit
Rewind past the barkeep’s
last call,
the half-drunk beer leaving
its sweaty beaded frown
Past initials carved
roughly into wood—
It began with a “J” and met
with a “K” and led
here, to this room in Paris
above the Square Caillancourt
where the church bells clang
upon the hill and a stain
the color of tea blossoms
across the ceiling—something
Holy— something that much closer
to God.

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