The Usual No.2
Wow I can’t believe I am so late posting issue No.2 of The Usual! Edited by my BFF Yasha Wallin and designed by yours truly, this seasonal “love letter to Montauk,” focuses on the people and places that make the easternmost tip of Long Island so special. Issue No.2 features a photo essay by Rachel Chandler; interviews with designer Rogan, surf pioneer Tom Curren, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith, daughter of music royalty Savannah Buffett, artist David Matterhorn and The Postelles. Additional contributions by Ken Miller, Seth Herzog, Phil Winser and Ben Towill of Fat Radish/Ruschmeyer’s, Will Adler and Joe Curren.
How does a magazine get printed? Check out our behind-the-scenes video of printing The Usual No.2, shot by the incredibly talented Julien Rodrigues of Invert Production.
How does a magazine get printed? Check out our behind-the-scenes video of printing The Usual No.2, shot by the incredibly talented Julien Rodrigues of Invert Production.
The Usual blows up!
I’m half a year late posting this but ‘THE USUAL BLOWS UP!’ Facehunter included an interview with us in their Montauk video. If it gets too annoying, fast forward to 4:20 to watch our section. And I use the word ‘interview’ loosely… stay tuned for issues No.3-5 that are coming in 2012!
Happy New Year from The Usual X King + Grove
My partner-in-crime Yasha and I were commissioned to do a New Years Resolutions list for King+Grove, the publishers of The Usual. Read and enjoy!
The Usual No.1
At the beginning of the summer, before it got warm enough for us to consider surfing, my best friend Yasha and I decided to pitch the idea of a magazine, to our favorite Montauk hangout, The Surf Lodge. Long story short, they said yes, gave us complete editorial and creative control, and agreed to be our publishers. In July we launched our first issue of The Usual, a short-run, limited-edition “love letter to Montauk.” The publication highlighted the people and places that make the Easternmost tip of Long Island so brilliant, through interviews, profiles, photography and illustration. Printed in nostalgic tabloid format, the design and content reflected the spirit of this seaside community.
140 pages in three days a.k.a the Freight + Volume Magazine Issue 3
The Freight + Volume magazine launched at Pulse Art Fair in May. I wasn’t there celebrating however. I was in bed sleeping seeing I had just created a 100 page magazine from scratch in under a week! The mag had a great response, sold out, and a new batch is being printed. About the magazine: Freight + Volume magazine gives four artists represented by its namesake Freight + Volume gallery, an opportunity to showcase their new work and interview four other people expose readers to their work too.
MORE IMAGES COMING SOON!
The Armory Show, NYC 2011
When I was 21 I moved to New York to become a famous artist and work in the art world, when the Armory Show was in town I’d spend days wandering round the booths and offshoot fairs, feverishly taking notes and pictures, and networking at cheese and wine events. Fast-forward eight years, I now work in advertising and the Armory Show represents a week-long bender with me getting really drunk at over-the-top after-parties in New York’s trendiest new bars and hotels and having competitions with my friends on who can snog the most painters in a night. I designed a magazine for Freight + Volume Publishers (post coming soon), which launched at Pulse so that was the only fair I actually went to. Here are some of my highlights:
Goodbye Twenty Ten
2010 was probably my best year I’ve had in America. There weren’t too many posts because I spent pretty much the whole year traveling. I would like to say that it was being paid to fly round the world art directing photoshoots and consulting on amazing branding projects, but sadly I spent all my own money; surfing and skiing exotic locations, and working on my perma-tan. Here’s how those wasted days broke down:
In The Mean Time
Yasha Wallin is a great editor AND best friend but on this project, Anthony Hayden-Guest’s new book of Cartoons and Rhymes “In the Mean Time,” she neglected to tell me I would have to art direct, design the book, retouch 186 images, get the book approved, and to the printers in a few short weeks for not a million dollars. Anyway. I did it, it turned out so beautiful and Anthony had a great book launch party at Art Basel in Miami.
This link from Art Lovers New York is a very nice review of the book. Thanks guys. [click on images to see them larger. More pics coming soon.]
UPDATE 02/13: Anthony Haden-Guest’s book “In the Mean Time” made it to the NYTimes today, woohoo! The Other Valentines Day: ”There’s a big gift list for the happily mated, romantically inclined and reasonably solvent. Here is one for the rest of us.”
Send your secret partner in secret crime Anthony Haden-Guest’s witty new book of dystopic verses,”In the Mean Time,” bookmarked to its charmingly illustrated examples of when an indiscretion “doesn’t count” (Page 51). Available at Freight + Volume, 530 West 24th Street, and soon from Amazon. And look for Haden-Guest’s “I (scull) NY” T-shirt, based on one of the cover’s graphics, coming in March to Barneys and the museum-shop circuit. Book: $20; T-shirt, $40.
