Ryan Gander’s new public sculpture is on view from today. This is our second project with Public Art Fund: website (lots of great material), invitation, sign, street banners, and magazine advertising. The identity and website work as a kind of disjointed fairy tale.

Do Ho Suh’s new science fiction project The Perfect Home opened last night at Storefront for Art and Architecture (and will be open until December 7). His project proposes a home situated on a floating trans-Pacific bridge, halfway between New York and Seoul. We designed a 9-minute video loop which shows 16 years of global ocean current movement, drawn from NOAA's OSCAR satellite remote sensing project; as well as Do Ho’s own flight patterns over the years. About 64 million data points are represented. The screen alternates among four different ways of displaying the data, including waving lines, breathing eggs, spinning discs, and 95 kinds of pop currency... High-res stills, low-res video, medium-res video

Identity, printed matter, signage, and website for the Public Art Fund’s new outdoor exhibition, Statuesque. The exhibit focuses on contemporary figurative sculpture by Huma Bhabha, Thomas Houseago and others. Our identity stacks all the content on top of a base made of Albertus, a typeface from the 1930s inspired by raised bronze lettering in public inscriptions. We made it even more 3D. It’s installed in City Hall Park, right around the corner from our office; the work is great if you want to visit.

With Lana Cavar, we designed this year’s AIGA “365” show, which displays AIGA’s picks of the best graphic design of the year. We dropped the work off in the middle of the gallery, along with a pinup board, a bookcase, and a couple trolleys, and waited to see what would happen to it… The show is open through February. AIGA has provided comfortable couches and free wifi for the duration, and Mark and Lia the receptionists finally get to play their iPods. So stop by if you want to kill some time. Thanks Lisa, Dariusz, Gabriela, Ric. More pictures.

This picture is from the Yale graphic design 2007 MFA show; Dan taught the class. The premise of the show was:

• Every student selects their own sites within the gallery for each project they want to show.
• Every site must somehow be right for that site’s project: the site must activate the project, or the project must help you see that location in the gallery in a new way.
• If necessary, adapt projects to work better with their locations.
• Be opportunistic, and in case an opportunity doesn’t present, at least be economical.

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Dan taught the GD MFA exhibition class at Yale. The 2006 show was 13,000 letter-size printouts.

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This exhibition, at Stroom Gallery in The Hague, showed the results of an international competition seeking new ideas about the combination of technology and public space. We decided to show all 307 competition entries. To make this possible we invented display methods and pursued a two-fold approach to space, structuring the content as both a “database” and a “cityscape.” With Min and Sulki Choi. Thanks Huub, Ron, Jo, & Jouke!