Excited to launch a new website and branding system for Tower 49 Gallery in NYC. Opening with a beautiful exhibition, Free Fall by Cordy Ryman in May www.tower49gallery.com

After two years of construction, Tower 49 opened its doors to a roster of international and high profile tenants in 1984. Tower 49 is designed by the renown architectural company, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The original tenants included, The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse), Saks Fifth Avenue and Bank Generale. Many of the original tenants and successors continue to occupy or lease space more than 25 years after Tower 49 opened.

In 1992, Tower 49 began art programming in the main lobby, establishing Tower 49 Gallery. The expansive wall and ceiling heights are a great space for exhibiting site-specific installations, paintings and sculptures. Over the years, Tower 49 Gallery has exhibited artists including: Frank Stella, Mark Di Suvero Jules Olitski and Shigeno Ichimura. For the past 7 years Tower 49 Gallery has been working with The Arts Student League of New York as well.

Launched new website for Hunter East Harlem Gallery

Hunter East Harlem Gallery is a multidisciplinary space for art exhibitions and socially minded projects. Located on the ground floor of Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work at 119th Street and Third Avenue, the gallery presents exhibitions and public events that foster academic collaborations at Hunter College while addressing subjects relevant to the East Harlem community and greater New York City. The Gallery seeks to initiate partnerships with publicly oriented organizations and focuses on showcasing artists who are engaging in social practice, public interventions, community projects, and alternative forms of public art. Since its inception in 2011, all exhibitions and programs at Hunter East Harlem Gallery are free and open to the public.

Thrilled to be working with Henrik Vibskov on a branding design method project with my Visual Design department students at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation School of Design aka KADK. 

I designed a new logo design for 205 Hudson Gallery for Hunter College Art Galleries
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I designed the wayfinding and branding for the Elective Affinities: A Library exhibition at 205 Hudson Gallery part of Hunter College Art Galleries

Elective Affinities: A Library
Curated by Jocelyn Spaar and Sarah Watson

February 18–April 9, 2017

205 Hudson Gallery
Hunter College Art Galleries
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
Entrance on the south side of Canal Street between Hudson and Watts
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 1–6pm

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one—but no one at all—can tell you what to read and when and how. ­­—Doris Lessing

The library includes selections from Archipelago Books, Blonde Art Books, Ediciones Popolet, Explorers Club of Enrique de Malacca, Melville House, Miniature Garden, New Directions, Primary Information, Purgatory Pie Press, Roof Books, Seven Stories Press, Small Editions, The Song Cave, Stonecutter, Ugly Duckling Presse, Verso, Wendy’s Subway and Word Up Books, with works by artists Erica Baum, Joey Carducci, Kevin Everson, Barbara Hammer, Shigeko Kubota, Sondra Perry, and Bryan Zanisnik.

Just returned from a Study Field Trip around Denmark with 53 students from the Kadk Visual Design department.

We visited The Islands of Nyord and Møn, the frescos at Elmelunde Church and Møns Klint (Cliffs). Stayed overnight at  Møns Klint Campsite. The next morning we drove to Jutland for a two day stay in Aarhus. Visiting the Narayana printing press, Hello Monday, Aros and Moesgaard Museums. Sunday, back to Copenhagen with stops at Trapholt Museum in Kolding and the Clay Museum for ceramics on the Island of Fyn.

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Excited to be working with Aarstiderne on a packaging design project with my Visual Design department students at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation School of Design aka KADK. 

Excited that Jonathan Lux, whose Marlborough catalog I designed will be showing at VOLTA Art Fair in Basel next week with Beers London Gallery.

An experimental book design project the Visual Design department bachelor students designed from KADK. The topic covered is Danish Drinking and Bukowski interpretations.

I designed the communication materials for the Daniel Buren site-specific work "Bayadères for Two Skywalks" organized by Hunter College Art Galleries on the Upper East Side, New York until September 2016. Photograph by Bill Orcutt.

A creative infographic Fixhub Festival Event project designed by a few of my Visual Design department students from KADK.

Attended a KADK Architecture department lecture by the innovative Sir Peter Cook RA, founder of Archigram, former Director the Institute for Contemporary Art and Bartlett School of Architecture at University College and partner of Crab Studio, London.

Participated in a KADK Gaming department workshop and lecture on "Designing for a Play Community" by Bernie DeKoven, a legendary game designer of playful, physical and analog games. Deep Fun Website.

Attended an inspiring lecture on "Showing Making" by Daniel Charny, guest professor at CODE at Codesign KADK. Daniel Charny is a curator and design educator. He is a founding director at From Now On, a creative and cultural consultancy based in London.

Color studies for the Beer Culture with Carlsberg project designed by some of my Visual Design department students at KADK.

The ABC book I designed for Knud Romer and John Kørner is represented among the 200 books at the “World Book Design 2015” exhibition in Tokyo, 1st ever from Denmark.

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