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Tuesday Edition: Clifton Burt
Sunny Tuesday greetings, collectors! Youngna here, standing in for Jen who is briefly in San Francisco, but excited to be returning to New York very soon. Team 20x200 is slowly recovering from hectic schedules and that nasty flu that's been making its way around the city, which we're sorry to say has us a bit behind on our shipping. We're still catching up, so recent orders haven't shipped as speedily as they usually do and orders made on today's edition, think-make-think (second edition) by Clifton Burt will need a little bit of extra time too.
think-make-think may look familiar to you collectors because it's true: you've seen it here before. We initially released this edition just before we introduced our $50 size, and were immediately sad about the timing because it has continued to be a very popular and inspirational print. So, we are back with a special second edition celebrating the John Maeda-inspired words for continued creativity. Maeda—graphic designer, professor, author of The Laws of Simplicity and President of RISD—is himself a beacon of design inspiration. In April of 2007, he posted a haiku on his blog which inspired Clifton's edition seen here.
It was entitled think-make-think, and to me it fulfilled the potential of Maeda's simplicity. Over the next few months, that haiku often found its way to the forefront of my mind. When our studio acquired the remnants of a discarded arrow sign, it was clear to me that think-make-think was a perfect fit, both in form and function.
The words of think-make-think sent Clifton digging for arrow sign letters in a Mississippi junk store to bring you the words in this new and vibrant form. It joins other text-based messages encouraging the innovative powers within like Matt Jones' Get Excited and Make Things (shown right) and Trey Speegle's paint-by-numbers piece, Can You Imagine. All three editions open the door to the limitless possibilities of creating things and finding encouragement in simple and meaningful phrases.
We also thought it'd be apt to re-release this print in honor of Make/Think, this weekend's AIGA Design Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. Our own Jane Mount and the talented Kate Bingaman-Burt (Drawings from July 2009, shown left)—who just happens to be Clifton's wife—will both be speaking there, which makes Jen even sadder to miss the event. The weekend will be packed with presentations, roundtables, lectures, and workshops led by talented design-industry professionals celebrating the practice of making new things and really thinking about them.
AIGA Design Conference
October 8–11, 2009
Memphis, TN
Look for Kate from 7:45–8:45 a.m. this Friday, October 9th at a roundtable discussion with Andre Andreev, Dan Covert, Nick Law, Bobby Martin, and Paul Sahre.
Jane will be on the panel, Wisdom of Communities | Inspiring Communities with Jim Coudal, Liz Danzico, and Derek Powazek, also this Friday, October 9th from 2:15–3:30 p.m.
We'll be back tomorrow and Thursday with extra special editions—a benefit and new photography from an old favorite. So long 'til then!
Tuesday Edition: Clifton Burt
Sunny Tuesday greetings, collectors! Youngna here, standing in for Jen who is briefly in San Francisco, but excited to be returning to New York very soon. Team 20x200 is slowly recovering from hectic schedules and that nasty flu that's been making its way around the city, which we're sorry to say has us a bit behind on our shipping. We're still catching up, so recent orders haven't shipped as speedily as they usually do and orders made on today's edition, think-make-think (second edition) by Clifton Burt will need a little bit of extra time too.
think-make-think may look familiar to you collectors because it's true: you've seen it here before. We initially released this edition just before we introduced our $50 size, and were immediately sad about the timing because it has continued to be a very popular and inspirational print. So, we are back with a special second edition celebrating the John Maeda-inspired words for continued creativity. Maeda—graphic designer, professor, author of The Laws of Simplicity and President of RISD—is himself a beacon of design inspiration. In April of 2007, he posted a haiku on his blog which inspired Clifton's edition seen here.
It was entitled think-make-think, and to me it fulfilled the potential of Maeda's simplicity. Over the next few months, that haiku often found its way to the forefront of my mind. When our studio acquired the remnants of a discarded arrow sign, it was clear to me that think-make-think was a perfect fit, both in form and function.
The words of think-make-think sent Clifton digging for arrow sign letters in a Mississippi junk store to bring you the words in this new and vibrant form. It joins other text-based messages encouraging the innovative powers within like Matt Jones' Get Excited and Make Things (shown right) and Trey Speegle's paint-by-numbers piece, Can You Imagine. All three editions open the door to the limitless possibilities of creating things and finding encouragement in simple and meaningful phrases.
We also thought it'd be apt to re-release this print in honor of Make/Think, this weekend's AIGA Design Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. Our own Jane Mount and the talented Kate Bingaman-Burt (Drawings from July 2009, shown left)—who just happens to be Clifton's wife—will both be speaking there, which makes Jen even sadder to miss the event. The weekend will be packed with presentations, roundtables, lectures, and workshops led by talented design-industry professionals celebrating the practice of making new things and really thinking about them.
AIGA Design Conference
October 8–11, 2009
Memphis, TN
Look for Kate from 7:45–8:45 a.m. this Friday, October 9th at a roundtable discussion with Andre Andreev, Dan Covert, Nick Law, Bobby Martin, and Paul Sahre.
Jane will be on the panel, Wisdom of Communities | Inspiring Communities with Jim Coudal, Liz Danzico, and Derek Powazek, also this Friday, October 9th from 2:15–3:30 p.m.
We'll be back tomorrow and Thursday with extra special editions—a benefit and new photography from an old favorite. So long 'til then!