The Post Family

The Post Family has a monthly feature, "The Family Five", in this sweet new design mag called Design Bureau. We are asking the raddest designers out there 5 thought-provoking questions. The first in the series is an interview with the super talents, Sonnenzimmer. Check it yo.

The Family has just returned from an amazing trip to San Fran. We are all exhausted and refreshed at the same time. We spent a week at the Levi's Workshop/Printshop letter pressing and screen printing posters and that explore the mission of Creative Commons with the help of Craig Newmark. We presented a fresh new identity to the brilliant Green For All organization. We had some insane croissants from Tartine Bakery that made me have to take a nap. Indulged in some insane coffee from Blue Bottle. Went zine crazy at Needles & Pens. And most importantly, made some super rad friends!

We will be updating our flickr this week with some beautiful and possibly incriminating photographs so check back. Also, we will be loading up our shop with new prints from the workshop in the next few weeks.

Dan Funderburgh
Mike Perry
Sonnenzimmer
Seripop

at the
Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington, Chicago
August 6th - September 3rd 2010
Noon to 5pm Wed - Sat or by appointment

opening
Friday August 6th 2010
6-9pm

Both in their art and their attendant values these artists work tirelessly to sustain cultural entities. They blanket space with meaning and convert square footage into bold proclamations. The music world reaps the rewards of Sonnenzimmer's subtle, painterly gig posters while the apparel industry appropriate's Mike Perry's electric zine hallucinations into backpacks and Nike dunks. Both Dan Funderburgh and Seripop explore the limits of spatial adornment, Dan through the design of delicately intricate wallpaper that balances Moorish mosaic with American op art, and Seripop via enormous street poster collages, a medium they have evolved from their monstrous rock posters and describe as "the 'skin' of a city, growing and shedding organically."

This is going to be awesome my friends: Public Works

"Stunningly simple, these flat pack vinyl vases fade orange to turquoise and blue to violet. Part of the Hope Forever Blossoming series, set includes one of each vase. Great for indoor or outdoor use."

Super fresh. Get them at Unison!

'A shelter for wandering taoist monks, martial arts instructors, spare-time pathologists, daisypickers, vegan cooks, flute-playing shepherds, slightly aging anarcho-punks, ascetics and other zealots, off-season theme park enthusiasts and maggot-infested zombies, united by mutual intrests and passions.'

These dudes are totally awesome!

I really love the grotesk. If you share my love, you should check out this article over at I Love Typography comparing Founders with it's close relatives.

The 9 Hours is a capsule hotel: a Japanese hotel concept with sleeping pods instead of rooms, and shared bathrooms.

via Minimalissimo

The ideal live/work space to me is centered around integration and not separation, the art of balance and not of juggling. These images represents the most important elements I value in my own space and tried to depict how they can work together.

Lifework

That concludes our week of ideal live/work concepts at Herman Miller's Blog. We would like to thank Lifework for including us in this project. It's been a ton of fun!

"The month following September and preceding November."

Beautiful new work up on Siggi's site. I can't enough of this dude's work. Such an amazing balance of structure and expression not to mention color. Check it.

“I’ve been a skateboard rider for almost 20 years. I still have the urge to ride once in a while, but the only problem for me is getting to a good place to skate. Having a ramp in my living room would make for some great stress relieving sessions I’m sure. And with lots of natural light, I don’t think I’d ever need to leave my house.”

Lifework