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Come to DC

4 million people are descending upon Washington DC for the presidential inauguration. We're hoping that at least 60 of them will come to our conference: The Inaugural Salon: a gathering on the eve of change. Please join us on January 19, 2009. Chad Evans and I are bringing together brilliant and talented friends and colleagues to share aspirations, question assumptions and engage in conversations about the roles culture, politics, economics, sustainability and the built environment will play in shaping the coming years.

We're doing it at a gorgeous location on the Potomac -- the House of Sweden. All proceeds (registration is $100) will be donated (100%!) to City Year DC, in the spirit of community and grassroots giving we hope our event will inspire.

Join us in DC, and if you can't, please consider contributing to City Year DC at the Salon site. Thanks.

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| Posted on December 18, 2008 12:25 PM | Permalink

2009

Today, Erik is at The Center for Book Arts printing the Soulellis Studio holiday card on a Vandercook letterpress. He's using Crane's Lettra paper and Soulellis Studio red ink (Toyo 0113). If you don't get a card from us soon just ask and we'll send you one.

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| Posted on December 16, 2008 3:13 PM | Permalink

The Grid System

It is, as it says: "The ultimate resource in grid systems." Freshly launched, by Antonio Carusone, of AisleOne. Soulellis Studio is listed under "Inspiration." Thanks Antonio!

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| Posted on December 2, 2008 12:19 PM | Permalink

Collage city.

Here's issue #5 of the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning alumni newsletter, fresh from the printer. I really love our cover on this one, totally conceived by Erik. The collage features student work from last semester's South Africa studio, plus 23 images of students, faculty, staff, Dean Kleinman and guest lecturer José Oubrerie. A few hundred of these were spread out all over the party at the New Museum last night, and the bright purple-pink Pantone 807 was perfect.

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| Posted on October 27, 2008 6:08 PM | Permalink

510 photos.

Tonight, Cornell University alumni welcome the new Dean for Architecture, Art and Planning at a party at the New Museum. They asked us to do a mural representing the entire college, so we asked every student, faculty and staff member to email us photos and we assembled the results, which was output on vinyl (22.5 ft. x 11 ft.). More here.

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| Posted on October 26, 2008 3:55 PM | Permalink

Sam sent us a poster.

Sam Mallett is a talented guy in South Wales, UK and he sent us a few bits in exchange for some Cornell posters. I really admire his work. He's experimenting with letterpress printing and original wood type, and the results are beautiful. Thanks Sam!

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| Posted on October 22, 2008 12:35 PM | Permalink

This is what it looks like when we diagram a website.

Can't really talk about this one yet, but it's a nice glimpse into the process we go through when we evaluate site architecture. More soon.

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| Posted on October 22, 2008 12:02 PM | Permalink

Blogging the city.

The Municipal Art Society of New York quietly relaunched MAS.org last month. Soulellis Studio designed the site as part of the re-branding, but MAS built it entirely in-house. At its core it's a highly-functional blog reporting on urban planning and preservation issues in NYC, in real time. But it's also their most visible communications channel, and we helped them extend that reach with a branded email blast that goes out weekly (also administered in-house by MAS).

MAS showed me the stats last week, and the traffic has gone through the roof — since the relaunch, it's more than doubled. That will get even better as they refine their online voice. This is a client who understands how non-profits need to communicate.

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| Posted on October 16, 2008 11:44 AM | Permalink

A color combination chart for layered clothing.

No. 1221613. A color combination chart for layered clothing, by Yoshiyuki Hagino, 1868.

I just got turned on to the digitized image collections of The New York Public Library. Wow. Six hundred thousand images in all kinds of specialized collections. Menus, charts, maps, photographs, illustrations, advertisements, cigarette cards, diagrams, costumes. I could spend hours in here (I just did).

No. 468952. Menu cover for the National Wholesale Druggists Association Banquet, 1900.

No. 1221643. An illustration of horses. Yoshiyuki Hagino, 1908.

No. 96883. Prismes 17. E. A. Seguy, 1931.

No. 473220. Menu, Portland, ME, 1908.

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| Posted on October 8, 2008 5:14 PM | Permalink

Wurman 1975.

One of Richard Saul Wurman's first books, Cities: Comparison of Form and Scale. His students made scale models of cities in white plasticine and photographed them from above, and reproduced the images in the book at exactly the same scale for comparison. All of RSW's ideas about visualization and comparative data have their start in this book. 19.20.21., his latest big idea, can also be traced back to this gem.

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| Posted on September 29, 2008 1:46 PM | Permalink

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