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A recent submission to a "call for design" by the publishers of Our American Nation.
Fiction
March 04, 2008
February 27, 2008
Typographical Apocrypha: a book review
A book review from the back page of imaginary Open Season Magazine. Posted on the web sites of courses related to typography.
February 18, 2008
Strange Totem
Three photographs for a fiction-based ethnographic project on people who, when it becomes necessary to remove a tree from the yard (because it is encroaching on the foundation, or the sewage system, or because it threatens to fall on the house in a storm), decide to leave its trunk standing.
All future photographs, as well as interviews and critical studies on partial tree owners will now be published by an imaginary person on her blog, the Yard Totem Project. Updates will not be posted here.
One extra, added despite a lack of ethnographic information on the residents of the house:
February 11, 2008
Smiling Lessons
Seen on various telephone poles throughout town.
February 10, 2008
January 28, 2008
Personal Ad
A scanned page from yesterday's Boston Messenger. The top left ad is in the name of an imaginary person. The others are worth reading as well.
January 20, 2008
Doing Hans a favor
Someone describes his encounter with the word "'glad' to Hans. Left taped together, the two papers are meant to have obviously taken different amounts of time to prepare. Why leave a design with a handwritten note?
Though many people describe the repetition of a word as having the effect of making it no longer seem like a word, this person believes it reveals that word's essence.
January 16, 2008
Anecdote for Hans
Email sent to the wrong recipient. Intended for someone random, but instead I picked someone I know so as not to deeply upset anyone. Sent from a newly made up address.
History of Trains
A page from an imaginary paper on the history of trains. Left in a library book on the history of trains.
January 13, 2008
Dust jacket for a missing book
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A dust jacket for a book about an imaginary genius. Cover flaps contain excerpts from the book. Quotes and publishing company are fabricated. The musical phrase on the cover is nonsense. The ISBN does not have the mathematical integrity of legitimate ISBNs. Left in several libraries. Where volumes of similar size are available (6"x10"x2"), left wrapped around them.
Meant to cause the anxiety of not recognizing the name of a famous person.
