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Just back from spending the last 4 days installing the House Industries Letters & Ligatures show at the Subliminal Gallery in LA. The show is up until December 5th. Here are few shots from the opening ceremony…
An 11ft character set.
Shepard Fairey and Andy Cruz.
Who else needs a 6ft ampersand?
Live Rust.
Numerology.
Coop with our design heros Marilyn & John Neuhart. The coolest lady in the place kept her shades on.
Adam Cruz through the ampersand.
Fonts for sale.
E is for Eames Demetrios.
Democratic Party or House Industries opening, Shepard gets the kids to dance.
House mobile.
Mr. Jalopy and Mr. Rich Roat
Lacquer House stencils.
Cast Iron Ampsersand.
Rusting Question Mark.
Tim Biskup after staring at the Ampersand scrims for too long.
Ampersand butcher block cutting boards.
Photos courtesy of Coach Camera Supply, Huntington Beach, CA.
Posted 9 days ago by Andy Cruz in events
A opening preview of the Letters & Ligatures show from Creativity.
Posted 12 days ago by Ben Kiel in from-the-crates
Some out-takes from the aforementioned Why Wait project. Today is Election Day here in the United States, if you didn’t vote early, today is the day to vote. Don’t wait, get out and vote today!
Posted 15 days ago by Ben Kiel in from-the-crates
As I picked through paint swatches for our upcoming show at Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Gallery, I couldn’t resist using what kids used call army green.
Posted 19 days ago by Andy Cruz in events
If you had a thousand bucks laying around during the Great Depression and you spent it all on some Sears stock, your childrens’ children would still be kickin’ it at some exclusive private school and heli-skiing out of the family’s chalet in Vail on twenty inches of fresh powder. Anyway, while everybody’s running scared right now, we figured that we should do a little stimulus package of our own. Our fonts are a good investment when you think about it. You can use them forever, we’ll float you new versions for free if you ask, and we put a lot of thought into them so they never go out of style.
Posted 20 days ago by Rich Roat in House-Products
Ken will tell me that it’s lettering and not type, but I couldn’t resist the alliteration. Besides, I didn’t want to put our readers off with “Self Licking Lettering” right off the bat so here it is in the body copy. Back to the post: Our friend Mark Borden at FastCompany magazine somehow convinced his senior editors that the House Industries typographic, lettering and cultural business empire warranted a fair amount of ink in their Masters of Design issue. As we blogged before, FastCompany commissioned us to create tasteful and professional lettering treatment for the opening spread of the article. Using the business acumen we absorbed by reading about FastCompany’s design masters, we decided that it would be a great idea to create a line of T-shirts just in time for the next issue to hit the newsstand. So, for any of you FastCompany readers out there who just came across this blistering rapture of luscious lettering and you have a few extra Alex Hamiltons floating around in your pocket, here are the shirts.
Posted 23 days ago by Rich Roat in House-Products
Declare Yourself asked us to design a logo for their Why Wait campaign so we put together a few pieces from the forthcoming Photo-Lettering collection and added some gratuitous stripes. The short story is that you can vote early in 31 states, starting today. Seems like a good idea. Unfortunately we cannot vote early in Delaware, so I will have to wait a few weeks to step into my old middle school gym, suffer memories of pre-teen angst and pull the lever.
Posted 26 days ago by Rich Roat in events
An interesting sign, even if it’s not that well-executed. (I suppose the photo isn’t much better.)
Posted 37 days ago by Ken Barber in from-the-crates
Together again for the very first time! Jeremy Dean and House at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design on October 23rd.
Posted 41 days ago by Andy Cruz in lectures
I’m not entirely sure of the reason for the trend, but St. Petersburg is loaded with signs featuring French Clarendons, tuscans and other styles typically associated with 19th century wood type. Reminds me of Las Vegas Nugget, a playful take on the reversed slab serif.
Posted 47 days ago by Ken Barber in from-the-crates
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House Industries Show at Subliminal Projects
A new exhibition of prints, patterns, installations and sculptures based on House Industries’ 15-year excursion into the alphabetical world.
November 8 – December 5, 2008
http://www.subliminalprojects.com/
Posted 9 days ago by Rich Roat in events
Besides ordering the secret potato at Musso & Franks and wrecking exotic cars in Malibu, the hippest thing to do in LA these days is to screen-print your own T-shirts at Fresh-Pressed in Los Feliz. We worked with the Fresh-Pressed folks to develop a Font Kiosk, a free-standing machine that allows users to set T-shirt art in select House Industries typefaces. Now even the most pithy one-liner will abound with renewed typographic and cultural relevance. Stop by during regular store hours to give it a try!
Fresh Pressed
4646 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Feliz, California
Posted 23 days ago by Rich Roat in events
Ken’s Blaktur font and Studio Lettering collection were honored by the Type Directors Club as part of the organization’s 2008 type design competition.
Posted 268 days ago by Ken Barber in About-House
When we started working on Neutraface in 1999, we took our first cues from the geometric lettering Richard Neutra specified for many of his commercial building designs. The challenge was to strike a balance between the sensibilities of Richard and his son, Dion, and the realities of the regimented world of typography. With the help of Christian Schwartz, we achieved this balance in what has become one of the most ubiquitous typefaces in today’s visual landscape.
Neutraface No. 2 is an extension of the Neutra legacy, where form and function meet at the nexus of practicality and versatility. It is by no means intended as an improvement or replacement of the original Neutraface, but as an expansion of the original concept. Neutra’s highly sought-after residential and commercial designs have stood the test of time, as will the typography that bears his name.
Posted 391 days ago by Rich Roat in House-Products