From our recently published 2017: The Year According To series— Other Means’ #8: Don’t Even Think About Dating My Daughter...: Mike Devine made the best bumper sticker this year.
* * * Brooklyn-based graphic design studio Other Means has been pushing out a range of compelling and smart work for clients in the arts, architecture, fashion, and media sectors since 2012. They are deliberate with their time and work, dedicating much of their practice to teaching, lecturing, and writing. Their interest in the relationship between language, design, and pop culture traverses nicely between client projects and design education and vice versa.Collectively, they have nearly a decade of experience teaching and lecturing at schools such as Pratt, RISD, Yale, Parsons, CCS Bard, and École Cantonal D’Arte de Lausanne, among others. In 2013, they initiated the New York session ofTypography Summer School, an annual, weeklong intensive graphic design workshop and in 2014, alongside Roland Früh and Corina Neuenschwander, they set up Easy Lessoning, a series of casual talks by designers, artists, and curators in New York and Zurich.Recent clients include CCS Bard, Goethe-Institut New York, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, James Fuentes Gallery, and Pioneer Works. Since 2013, they have developed an ongoing relationship with the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, creating an evolving visual identity that like much of their work and thinking, responds to what came before: either to build continuity or signal a bigger change. Photo caption: Courtesy TXTbooks
