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Joyous Design Is Not Apolitical Perforated risograph, 2-color, 2016

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Typefarce 1 was a show of satirical and critical design pointed at and embedded within Typeforce, then in it's 6th year. Typeforce is an annual design show centered around the creative use of typography. The goal of Typefarce, which was independently curated by the design house Dgenerator, was to both empower designers to use satire and social critique while also calling into question it's effectiveness within the medium. Where does design fail to be critical?

#risograph #risography #printmaking #typeforce #typeforce 6 #Dgenerator #critical design #postcard #graphic design #design

Pattern Design 2016

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#pattern design #pattern #repeat #textile #motion graphics #animated gif #geometric #colorful #wallpaper #background

Generate Conference London

Genrate is a two-day conference in London and New Yorkfor web designers herein madeover as GENR8 with a suite of colorful branding collateral spanning apps and print.

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#graphic design #conference #branding #logo #ui #ux #ui design #mobile app #typography

Do Make Break 2015, Displayed at The Design Show 2015, The Chicago Art Department Laser prints, plexiglass trash bin, artist tape Behance Link

What do we value most in design? Is it cleanliness, organization, purpose, or something else? Do Make Break poses a question to each of these values by allowing participants control over a shared design space. Provided with tiled laser prints, text, tape, and the permission to remove or alter anything they dislike, gallery-goers were given the opportunity to either make design or make a mess. Like much of my work, the ultimate goal of the piece was to explore alternative strategies of design. In the piece, there are two major zones of composition; the 4x4' square delineated by tape as well as the 3D zone of the clear trash bin.

#Chicago Art Department #Installation #graphic design #destroy graphic design forever okay #Jacob Blank #SAIC #Visual Communication Design

Party Aphorisms (For David McDiarmid) 2014-2015 Displayed at Typeforce Chicago, February 14 – 25 Screenprints on chipboard, vinyl on mylar balloons, digitally printed party hats

Party Aphorisms addresses issues of continuing a queer visual and political lineage after the AIDS crisis. The work of David McDiarmid is pointedly political, acerbically humorous, and incredibly important to me despite only having access to his story and work through the Internet. For this piece, I borrowed heavily from his Rainbow Aphorisms series in an attempt to funnel it through the experiences, traumas, and trajectory of my own generation. The result is a failure to memorialize and instead is a critical reimagining which I believe is a very queer way to access history. I’ve decided to document this work through collecting photos from Instagram to further activate the idea of generation loss/re-contextualization.

#David McDiarmid #printmaking #screenprint #balloons #Typeforce #Typeforce Chicago #appropriation #installation art #queer art

Good news!

Just got news that some new work of mine will be in Typeforce 6.

It opens Friday, February 13 at 6:00pm at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago.

Facebook event

#Typeforce #Chicago #pagehide

Digital garbage / cutouts from screen-printed stickers on holographic paper, processed.

#scraps

N-Space Video, 2:29

#N-Space #Jacob Blank #SAIC #Animated Gif #Graphic Design #Performance Art #Video art #saic #VISCOM

N-Space Gif Preview

#N-Space #animated gif #epilepsy warning #graphic design #video art

Sass Trip Shift, 2014

OOHH MMYY GGAAWWDD. Sass Trip Shift is a 17-page photo zine complete with special gifts (a button+sticker). Laser and Inkjet, bound with pink, blue, red, and green thread. Pre-Order

#animated gif #zine #book #graphic design #photography #epilepsy warning

Tourism Piece, 2014, Performance resulting in photographs

I asked 24 people to take my photo in front of and inside Cloud Gate in order to capture the presence of both myself and my unknown collaborators. Alternatively, I attempted to insert myself into the travel photographs of others. To date, this is the only publicly available, independently produced photograph of my presence.

#performance art #disposable camera #one hour photo #cloud gate #the bean #photography

Blank #1 is my first zine for sale! It comes in a black on black cover (my favorite) and black on blue. Essentially, it's 16 pages of crunchy, hypnotic imagery made from the imagery of vintage computer graphics. Plus, it's hand-stitched with silver thread, comes in a handmade envelope, and includes some GUI icon cut-outs. All this beauty is only $3.50! Limited to 24.

#zine #digital art #artists on tumblr #pagehide