Daily Book Graphics #364 / Is Paris Burning?

©1965 / Design: Chermayeff & Geismar

Daily Book Graphics #363 / Anatomy of a Metropolis

©1962 / Design: Gilbert Lesser

The only thing I was able to find out about Gilbert Lesser in the 2 minutes I dedicated to Googling him, was that he designed the logo for Studio 54 and this brilliant poster for Equus:

Secondary Occupants / Collected & Observed Opens

Thanks to everybody who came to the opening on Saturday. The show is up until May 28th so there is plenty of time to get to see it. The opening went well, people seemed engaged and interested. The weather was great, in the 70s during the day and the mid 60s at night.

photos by Colette

Colette and Me

We stayed at the Chelsea Hotel on Friday and Saturday night. It is the cheapest place in town if you are willing to share a bathroom (and we are) with several strangers. And if it is loud or dirty, it's still the Chelsea, so you can imagine Leonard Cohen or Dylan Thomas being in the same situation and that makes it seem kinda cool. The rows of tents and people below me in the picture above are comedians hoping to be contestants NBC's Last Comic Standing, that picture was taken on Saturday afternoon the auditions didn't start until the next day.

Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed Opens Tonight

Don't miss it!

I have some quick snaps of the interior installation below, but don't look at them if you are coming to the show.

Secondary Occupants / Collected & Observed
March 20 – May 28 / 2010
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 20th 6-9pm
Black & White Project Space
483 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Almost Finished with the Installation

I am almost ready for Saturday's opening, I just have a few more little details to take care of. The outside part of the show came together last night. It is amazing how easy it is to build a shed when you want it to look bad. More pictures to follow later today.

So how to I keep tension on the lines? This is what the inside of the shed looks like:

Will the tension last two months? I hope so.

On a different subject, I want to thank Will from A Journey Around My Skull for posting my book covers on his blog. He uncovers the rarest, most interesting visual book content. I urge you to check it out on a regular basis.

Making Progress - More Books from the Show

Installation in progress

I neglected to mention in my last post that these covers (many of them slipped into old plastic library covers), are meant to represent books from an imagined academic history concerned with the study of invertebrates and other animals as they relate to architecture and psychology. For a full statement /press release about the show, go here.

Yes, I recycled the Ecologies of Decay design (with some changes).

Installing in Brooklyn

Sorry for the long blog silence. I have been extremely busy preparing and installing my upcoming show Secondary Occupants Collected and Observed at Black & White Project Space (opening Saturday March 20th). I've been in Brooklyn since Tuesday working on the installation. Below are some of the fake books that are in the show (there are 13 in all). I should be back to regular book graphics blogging by the 22nd.

Daily Book Graphics #362 / Speech and Brain-Mechanisms

©1966 / Design: J. McMullan

Daily Book Graphics #361 / Political Economy

©1966