Linked by Air is the graphic design partnership of Tamara Maletic and Dan Michaelson. Our approach is practical, hands-on and collaborative. We are experienced in several media, including print, online, and installations in the environment. We specialize in the design and production of public space both physical and online. We often do programming in-house so that design and technology are intertwined inventive processes.

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Statuesque  06/03/10  (0 comments)

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 interior and exterior signage system for ZPC (Zagrebački Plesni Centar), a new dance theater in Zagreb (architects: 3LHD). The exterior signs had to help people find the theater, inside a courtyard, from the street; a huge Z draws that line, then joins with a P in the courtyard, and a C that winds its way into the building. Inside, underlines on a single datum create a giant rhythm through the building by forming an irregularly dashed line. We thought dance is about discontinuity as much as continuity. More photos.

All points  09/03/08  (0 comments)

All Points is a proposal for a small set of unofficial wayfinding and orientation points physically embedded in New York’s urban fabric, each about the size of a person’s hand. Each small display will be based on the same networked computing platform, set of content genres, and special stochastic pixel matrix. But as well as bearing location- and time-specific content and vectors, the shape of each display will be custom fabricated to fit or patch a unique local condition – a form appropriate to a mutable city of patches, reuse, and myriad pedestrian practices, and an argument that locative computing need not itself be mobile in order to engage mobility.

Wall  06/20/08  (0 comments)

    

Two proposals: Interruption and Weathervane

Only  05/19/08  (0 comments)

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