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Category: Art

  • Arte Agora Second Printing

    Today I received delivery of 400 copies of the second printing of my book, Arte Agora: Art made, sold, or placed in the public way.

  • Chasing Landscapes

    Chasing Landscapes

    Today I published a new essay: Chasing Landscapes: A Practical Study in the Removal of Arte Agora from the Public Way, as a limited edition 10-copy booklet. It’s a new form of participatory art criticism– I documented the existence and removal of items in an extended public art project. Here’s the introduction: This month, Vertical…

  • Arte Agora Lessons at SAE

    Today I did my first Arte Agora lessons at Morgan Sayer’s art class st the SAE Institute Chicago. Two weeks before the session, introduce the concept of Arte Agora to the students. Define the term using the first portion of the book, provide a PDF of book, assign reading, and have a general discussion that…

  • Arte Agora

    Arte Agora

    I wrote this book, which defines a new genre of American art that is “made, sold, or placed in the public way”, in May 2019. Here’s an excerpt: You can read the entire volume here: https://www.arteagorabook.com/ or purchase here on Amazon:

  • Documentation: Public Health Illustrations at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

    Here’s a post I wrote about how a public health department can use local legends. http://www.derivativeworks.com/2018/04/these-public-health-illustrations-by-jack-davis-are-my-current-fascination.html

  • The Shining Girls

    The Shining Girls

    This book, by Lauren Beukes, is set in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood, and I lived there with my family starting in 1985. I spent some time giving Lauren background on what it was like to live here at that time:

  • PANEL: Ezio Manzini Lecture on Social Innovation

    Tonight I participated in a panel discussion following a lecture by Ezio Manzini, a leading expert on desgin and sustainability titled, “”Small Projects, Large Changes: Scaling Up Sustainable Solutions”. It was great to see someone pull together the many threads we’ve seen in city life around cooperative development, hacking the infrastructure, and generally making things…

  • POLITICAL AD: Make Hoffman Your Constant

    I made this ad for election day. It’s meant to be an homage to an ad I did with my Juggernautco partner Jonny Stepping back in November 1992:

  • “Wide Right Turn”Collection Covered in AIGA

    Here’s a great article on the AIGA blog– “Keep on Truckin’, With Caution” that covers the design of wide right turn signs. The author covers my collection and my email convo with Mark Bender pretty extensively: Others have taken an interest in these truck decals, too. Not long ago I came across a web site…

  • Wide Right Turns

    Wide Right Turns

    I collect images of signs on the backs of trucks that indicate that the truck will go slightly wide when turning right. It hit MetaFilter today.