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Aaron Horkey is a phenomenal illustrator and poster artist who grew up in rural Minnesota. His hand-drawn, obsessively detailed typography never ceases to amaze me. When we interviewed Aaron for issue one, he offered helpful advice about avoiding mistakes.
Don’t try a half cab flip right out the gate just because your high school crush happens to be watching - you will roll your ankle and end up in a shameful heap.
2 comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in art, featured, poster, profile on 18 August 2008.
Fill/Stroke Branding Experiments, Part 1, Shorty
To take the edge off a drab Monday morning, we present part 1 of an ongoing investigation of branding.
1 comment. Posted by Fill/Stroke in branding, conceptual, experimentation on 18 August 2008.
Roughly two hundred pages of soon-to-be designed content. Getting to this point has been much more cumbersome than we originally anticipated, what with: near deportation, fifty percent face paralysis, family sickness and nuptials. The summer has been tough, to say the least.
Even so, we’re still on track for a fall release. Pictures of the progress after the jump, including shots of our new editor.
1 comment. Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1 on 10 August 2008.
Ed Fella is an inspiring designer, vernacular artist and educator based in central California. Inspired by his innovative body of work, we kindly asked him to contribute his responses to the Fill/Stroke issue 1 questionnaire.
“Don’t buy into the big status commodity culture that designers generally aspire to: food, dress, cars, lifestyle. Live modestly when faced with lots of money that you have to say no to.”
Read more. →
No comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1, profile on 20 July 2008.
We’re sharing a few more answers from our questionnaire, just a few snippets of wisdom while we keep working hard to get Issue 1 to the presses. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1 on 20 July 2008.
I’ve spent the better part of the morning refamiliarizing myself with the archives at chromogenic. Dude’s got talent and we’re glad to have had him answer the questionnaire for issue 1.
2 comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1, photography on 18 July 2008.
We’ve collected some great content over the last year or so for the first printed release of Fill/Stroke and have recently begun laying it out. In the coming weeks, we’ll be releasing some previews of what you can expect to read, preorder information and more.
Keep your eyes on the prize if you want more information. (The prize, of course, being this blog.)
No comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1 on 13 July 2008.
Content Preview 1: Questionnaire
A few responses to whet your palette
No comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1 on 13 July 2008.
Coming soon: short video about chairs!
No comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in motion on 13 July 2008.
Ladies and Germs,
So, here we are. Week 1. We’ve dusted off the old keyboard and mouse and (finally) put the finishing touches on our web GUI.
What can you expect to find in these parts? (Thanks for asking.) Its hard to forsee what this blog will become. But since you insist, I’ll take a stab: news about our printed publication, preorder information, stuff that just didn’t fit in the magazine, web contests, delicious recipes, inappropriate photographs, ridiculous observations, good design, interesting links, loads of ego and perhaps pictures of our scars, depending on how saucy we’re feeling. I guess we’ll see what boils up.
I’ll leave it at that. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave us a comment with material you suggest we post.
Yours, Tanner
No comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1 on 9 July 2008.
