This Friday is the opening reception for a collection of illustrations created by Zachary Granger Moldof at the AiAi gasa gallery in Brooklyn, NY. It would be lovely to see you there.

Friday, October 27th from 7-9pm
at AiAi gasa
274 5th Avenue in Brooklyn

One of the first projects I designed when Citizen Scholar had just begun was a character for the Fleurons of Hope typeface that was to be included in Building Letters Three. This issue building letters was to benefit those affected by the December 2004 Asian Tsunami.

I’m happy to say that Building Letters Three is now available. All the details are available over at buildingletters.org.
Run don’t walk, this issue includes 25 free fonts.

Our friend, photographer Luke Wolagiewicz, was in New York for a few days before taking of for seven weeks in South Africa. While there, he’s researching and shooting Ponte City, an anomale of a high rise in Johannesburg. Ponte was a desirable luxury apartment building, the tallest in Africa in fact, but since the middle-class dispersion into the suburbs since the fall of the Apartheid, rampant crime in the area has turned the building’s dream reality on its head. This article covers some of the eerieness.

Luke sent some amazing images, but I can’t share them yet. They’ll be available in some upcoming articles.

Stay safe Luke.

When I started working with Karrie Jacobs, there were two primary reasons for developing her web presence:

• Her new book, The Perfect $100,000 House was to be published by Viking in the next couple of months (it’s out now and sellling well)

• Her name is also the name of an adult film star, and, as you can imagine, the internet and therefore search engines, are quick to find such pervasive content. Karrie needed to re-claim her web I.D. by injecting her name into the mix and getting links in the places that would circulate.

  A month and a half after her site launch, Karrie notified me: her site is now #1 when you google “karrie jacobs.” We certainly can’t claim all the credit, Karrie’s recently been featured in The New York Times, the LA Times, I.D. Magazine, Metropolis, Good Magazine, the Design Within Reach newsletter, and more. Fortunately, all that publicity is leading visitors to her site and driving up the rankings. Keep it up!