GUMPTION and PLUCK. DRAGONS and LUCK. ’11-’12

SEASON’S GREETINGS TO YOU AND YOURS. MAY THE DRAGONS BE KIND IN THE NEW YEAR!

A few shots from some of this year’s HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS. And as tradition calls, SUBJECT-OBJECT delivers HOLIDAY ’11-’12! Check out ARCHIVED POSTS for PAST EXAMPLES. Have yourselves a good time and greet the DRAGONS WAITING at the GATE with OPEN ARMS. Thinking of many of you. GOOD FORTUNE and GOOD HEALTH in the coming year! S-O.

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FEATURED! : COLLECTION ‘o6

IMAGE of COLLECTION ’06 Department Show Campaign FEATURED
on COROFLOT Portfolio Site. Yes, it’s shameless self-promotion, but flattering nonetheless.

Ten years after graduating from the APPAREL DEPARTMENT at RISD,
it was a privilege to get to do this project, just as a sort of… moment. The CAMPAIGN encompassed a POSTER, BROCHURES, a DVD COVER,
a T-SHIRT PROPOSAL, and a few other pieces. In any case, you can find
a lot of WORK from WWW.SUBJECT-OBJECT.NET more READILY ACCESSIBLE as a PORTFOLIO of IMAGES at WWW.COROFLOT.COM/TRATANAWORK. Today, the overall image
of the COLLECTION ’06 CAMPAIGN was featured on their MEMBER GALLERY PAGE. (THANKS, COROFLOT!) http://www.coroflot.com/public/project_home.asp

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THINGS THAT NO LONGER DELIGHT ME

THINGS THAT NO LONGER DELIGHT ME, COVER PROPOSAL for a BOOK of POETRY by LESLIE CHANG and FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS. (unused)

Sometimes projects don’t work out, but they can produce some HAPPY RESULTS. The tone and meaning of LESLIE CHANG’s correspondence and approach inspired the IMAGERY. Working through ideas of MEMORY, IMMIGRATION, TRADITION, FAMILY, and HISTORY led to this PROPOSAL, which calls upon the mystical potential of Chinese firecrackers. But given the widespread laws that make them contraband, a HOME-MADE, CRAFTIER SOLUTION was used. What RESULTED was something FUN, DRY, and STILL LITERARY. (One hopes! THANKS, LESLIE.)

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Filed under: Art Direction, Book, Photography, Print, asterisk, chinese firecracker, cover, family, fordham press, leslie chang, memory, poetry, sparks, tradition, typography

HAPPY WHICH HOLIDAY

NON-DENOMINATIONAL, ALL-INCLUSIVE, POLITICALLY PEACEFUL, WINTER HOLIDAY CARD 0910!

Whatever the belief system, whomever the audience, every year culminates in one event at SUBJECT-OBJECT — the DESIGNER HOLIDAY CARD. Seemingly random in nature, loose with themes, and either abstract or obscure in meaning, they are a thrill to produce and invested with as much care as any project. Here’s to the end of ’09 and the arrival of a new year : the TIGER, GRRRRRR! (oh, and MIND CANDY UPDATED at WWW.SUBJECT-OBJECT.NET)

For a stroll through HOLIDAYS PAST, have a look below.

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Filed under: Art Direction, Photography, Print, Profile, Uncategorized, 0910, Art Direction, card, color, craft, design, graphic design, henny penny, holiday, illustration, new year, Photography, red, red light, styling, typography

BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, AFTER a FASHION

TYPOGRAPHY + ART DIRECTION for TENNIS MAGAZINE FALL FASHION, 2007, with photography by SARAH WILMER.

So how surprising was it to open up the FEBRUARY ’09 issue of COMMUNICATION ARTS MAGAZINE and find a feature on the very talented SARAH WILMER! (www.sarahwilmer.com) She was kind enough to share credit, including TENNIS’s Photo Editor, DAVID ROSENBERG.

But what’s REALLY worth mentioning about this shoot (ON FILM, by the way), is not the safari-like trek through the wilds of Prospect Park’s drug pushers, hustlers, or even the weeks worth of location scouting when we saw where DEEP THROAT was filmed, as well as a squirrel fall flat out of a tree like a rubber water bottle splat… Rather, we had a HATE CRIME COMMITTED! Near the end of a very long day, with every weather condition imaginable, in broad-ish daylight, witnesses galore, in front of the AUDUBON SOCIETY of all places, David got JUMPED by a gaggle of teens who apparently travel in packs looking to make assumptions and bust people up. POLICE, AMBULANCES, REPORTS, ARRESTS… Who said fashion isn’t BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS?

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Filed under: Art Direction, Fashion, Print, editorial, graphic design, Photography, prospect park, sarah wilmer, tennis, typography