Clifton Burt

April 4th 2012

We recently teamed up with the legendary Hatch Show Print to make this terrific poster announcing that the Rural Studio is now taking applications for next year’s outreach program! Hatch dug a bunch of weights of Franklin Gothic out of their type cases for us! Thanks, Hatch folks!

Apps are due on April 15th, do you know somebody that should apply? If so, get on it!

epicenter:

The Rural Studio, located deep in the heart of Hale County Alabama, is currently accepting applications for their Outreach Program. Auburn University Rural Studio’s Outreach Program was designed as a way to bring students and collaborators from outside Auburn University into the fold of the Studio. Since its establishment in 1999, the Outreach program has evolved from often individualized, community-driven projects to a single team project: the 20K House.

One of the most challenging of all Rural Studio projects, the 20K house seeks to provide a well-built, affordable housing alternative to the ubiquitous mobile home for local clients. The homes are built for $20,000 where around $12,000 is allocated for materials and the remaining $8,000 would cover labor costs and contractor profit. Unlike other Rural Studio projects, the aim of the $20K House is to create a line of homes which could be built by contractors and have a greater impact on local communities.

Approximately 4 positions are available each year, and the program year is August through May/June ($6,000/semester). Applications are due on April 15, 2012 (for the 2012-2013 school year). To apply, please visit the Rural Studio Outreach page and click Outreach Application PDF (in the middle of the page) to download an application. For questions, please contact us at rstudio@auburn.edu or call 334.624.4483

To learn more about the Rural Studio, we suggest watching Citizen Architect, and reading Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency and Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee.

Posted at 10:37am and tagged with: ruralstudio, letterpress, alabama, architecture,.

We recently teamed up with the legendary Hatch Show Print to make this terrific poster announcing that the Rural Studio is now taking applications for next year’s outreach program! Hatch dug a bunch of weights of Franklin Gothic out of their type cases for us! Thanks, Hatch folks!

Apps are due on April 15th, do you know somebody that should apply? If so, get on it!

epicenter:

The Rural Studio, located deep in the heart of Hale County Alabama, is currently accepting applications for their Outreach Program. Auburn University Rural Studio’s Outreach Program was designed as a way to bring students and collaborators from outside Auburn University into the fold of the Studio. Since its establishment in 1999, the Outreach program has evolved from often individualized, community-driven projects to a single team project: the 20K House.

One of the most challenging of all Rural Studio projects, the 20K house seeks to provide a well-built, affordable housing alternative to the ubiquitous mobile home for local clients. The homes are built for $20,000 where around $12,000 is allocated for materials and the remaining $8,000 would cover labor costs and contractor profit. Unlike other Rural Studio projects, the aim of the $20K House is to create a line of homes which could be built by contractors and have a greater impact on local communities.

Approximately 4 positions are available each year, and the program year is August through May/June ($6,000/semester). Applications are due on April 15, 2012 (for the 2012-2013 school year). To apply, please visit the Rural Studio Outreach page and click Outreach Application PDF (in the middle of the page) to download an application. For questions, please contact us at rstudio@auburn.edu or call 334.624.4483

To learn more about the Rural Studio, we suggest watching Citizen Architect, and reading Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency and Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee.

January 24th 2012

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Radical listening at PNCA’s Applied Craft + Design. #y12k #typetuesday (Taken with instagram)

Posted at 8:47pm and tagged with: y12k, typetuesday,.

January 19th 2012

Reblogged from movingthings|473 notes

movingthings:

jakestangel:

oh my god i love this so much. so much.

jennilee:

the phone stack / thanks niall!

We usually take a pretty hard line against phones at dinner, but a new trick just popped up that gives us hope for the future. It’s called a phone stack, and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten.

It works like this: as you arrive, each person places their phone facedown in the center of the table. (If you’re feeling theatrical, you can go for a stack like this one, but it’s not required.) As the meal goes on, you’ll hear various texts and emails arriving… and you’ll do absolutely nothing. You’ll face temptation—maybe even a few involuntary reaches toward the middle of the table—but you’ll be bound by the single, all-important rule of the phone stack. Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill.

This is brilliant.

Posted at 8:36pm.

movingthings:

jakestangel:

oh my god i love this so much. so much.
jennilee:

the phone stack / thanks niall!
We usually take a pretty hard line against phones at dinner, but a new trick just popped up that gives us hope for the future. It’s called a phone stack, and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten.
It works like this: as you arrive, each person places their phone facedown in the center of the table. (If you’re feeling theatrical, you can go for a stack like this one, but it’s not required.) As the meal goes on, you’ll hear various texts and emails arriving… and you’ll do absolutely nothing. You’ll face temptation—maybe even a few involuntary reaches toward the middle of the table—but you’ll be bound by the single, all-important rule of the phone stack. Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill.

This is brilliant.

January 3rd 2012

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Rules are meant to be…followed! Kate and I made up a rule-based project / game for Instagram in this new year. We’ve given ourselves a photographic assignment for each day of the work week. We call it #y12k which is meant to indicate the year 2012. Turns out that it literally translates to the Year Twelve Thousand which makes it even more awesome.

Here are the rules:

Monday #mondaycolor

Take a photo of something containing a color. Each week rotates through ROY G. BIV. The first week was Red, this week was Orange (we actually started #y12k the last week of December ‘11), next Monday will be Yellow, and so on.

Tuesday #typetuesday

Photograph some typography that catches your eye.

Wednesday #patternwednesday

Photograph, you know, a pattern.

Thursday #thursdaything

Take a picture of a singular object. It can be anything as long as it’s a self-contained thing and you find it interesting. Tell us about it (this applies to all of them by the way)

Friday #fridayfocus

This one’s about focusing on the media you’re into at the moment. It can be music, movies, tv shows, books. Just take a picture of it and share it with us all.

Here’s what the #y12k collection looks like so far: http://ink361.com/#/photos/tag/y12k

So that’s #y12k for ya. Oh, and you can add your photos to the #y12k pile too. It’s as easy as tagging it.

Posted at 4:15pm and tagged with: instagram, y12k, 2012,.

Rules are meant to be…followed! Kate and I made up a rule-based project / game for Instagram in this new year. We’ve given ourselves a photographic assignment for each day of the work week. We call it #y12k which is meant to indicate the year 2012. Turns out that it literally translates to the Year Twelve Thousand which makes it even more awesome.

Here are the rules:

Monday #mondaycolor

Take a photo of something containing a color. Each week rotates through ROY G. BIV. The first week was Red, this week was Orange (we actually started #y12k the last week of December ‘11), next Monday will be Yellow, and so on.

Tuesday #typetuesday

Photograph some typography that catches your eye.

Wednesday #patternwednesday

Photograph, you know, a pattern.

Thursday #thursdaything

Take a picture of a singular object. It can be anything as long as it’s a self-contained thing and you find it interesting. Tell us about it (this applies to all of them by the way)

Friday #fridayfocus

This one’s about focusing on the media you’re into at the moment. It can be music, movies, tv shows, books. Just take a picture of it and share it with us all.

Here’s what the #y12k collection looks like so far:
http://ink361.com/#/photos/tag/y12k

So that’s #y12k for ya. Oh, and you can add your photos to the #y12k pile too. It’s as easy as tagging it.

December 29th 2011

Reblogged from theokbb|40 notes

theokbb:

My buddies Will Bryant and OMFGco put together a cringe inducing, yet AWESOME shirt with a solid, never forget message: HAIL SAFETY! Edition of 30 and proceeds go to the ever awesome ADX!

Order one HERE!

Posted at 12:59pm and tagged with: ADX,.

theokbb:

My buddies Will Bryant and OMFGco put together a cringe inducing, yet AWESOME shirt with a solid, never forget message: HAIL SAFETY! Edition of 30 and proceeds go to the ever awesome ADX!
Order one HERE!

October 6th 2011

Reblogged from superamit|8,568 notes

Help Amit! Let’s do this, Internet!

Amit Gupta was recently diagnosed with Leukemia. He’ll be one step closer to curing it if he can find a genetic match of South Asian descent.

Here’s the best thing you can do to help right now:

If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.

If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event his friends are putting on.

If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above. Thank you.

You can read Amit’s full message here. Please spread the word by reblogging this post.

(Source: jayparkinsonmd)

Posted at 9:37am.

Help Amit! Let’s do this, Internet!

Amit Gupta was recently diagnosed with Leukemia. He’ll be one step closer to curing it if he can find a genetic match of South Asian descent.

Here’s the best thing you can do to help right now:

If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.

If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event his friends are putting on.

If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above. Thank you.

You can read Amit’s full message here. Please spread the word by reblogging this post.

October 5th 2011

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“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Thank you, Steve Jobs. Rest in Peace.

Posted at 5:23pm.

September 22nd 2011

Reblogged from theokbb|27 notes

Hey wait, I’d be in this group photo too but I had a thing.

theokbb:

Carlie Armstrong worked her lovely photo magic and shot our workspace for her blog work.place. THANK YOU CARLIE!

Posted at 6:37pm and tagged with: teamprojects,.

September 19th 2011

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Sooper excited about our studio-mate Will Bryant’s New York Times Magazine cover this week. Hot dog!

Posted at 10:34am.

August 31st 2011

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The OCB, Em Space, and ADX have been working in partnership to do something we’ve long dreamt about: produce letterpress wood type. We recently completed our first test type which exceeded our, well my, expectations. The idea is to use modern equipment to clear away the waste wood and use hand finishing to complete each letter. Our test cut has even unexpectedly wound up being included in Wood Type, Evolved: Experimental Letterpress & Relief Printing in the 21st Century, an exhibition curated by April Sheridan and Nick Sherman at Columbia College.

Hot dog! Now onto the next test cuts!

Posted at 2:28pm and tagged with: Wood Type, typography, ADX, letterpress,.

July 15th 2011

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This song is stuck in my head today and now I need for it to be stuck in yours.

Posted at 5:29am.

June 24th 2011

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My sketchnotes from Jennifer Daniel’s talk at the Cleaners in Portland in May.

Posted at 12:24pm and tagged with: sketchnotes, garfield,.

June 13th 2011

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Nicole Lavelle is riding across the country on a bike —a bike made of Alabama bamboo. While she was in Greensboro, AL constructing her ride, she mailed us some ephemera that she found. Apparently the contents of someone’s desk drawer, there are grocery receipts, telephone receipts and other fascinating artifacts from rural Alabama circa 1919.

Posted at 4:33pm and tagged with: Alabama,, typography,.