109 Herbert & Joella Bayer According to Todd Weikel 2024
Edition of 30 20 pages 7 × 8 in Stitchbound digital offset with tipped-in plates
Interview with Santa Barbara carpenter Todd Weikel on working for artist and Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer and his wife and business partner Joella Bayer at their home in Montecito during the last years of their lives.
Introduction by his son, Henry Weikel; interview conducted on June 1, 2024 by Henry and myself.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles February 10–March 10 (extended through April 7)
The exhibition is organized by Wendy Yao as part of the museum’s Ooga Booga residency, and presents editions and ephemera from the past decade of the imprint.
Installation photos: Hannah Mjølsnes
K.73r Public Type 2024
Available to license from Public Type, with additional symbols and alternates and updated type table of over 10,500 glyphs. K.73r is both functional and experimental, and can be set as body or display type. Included in the font are upper and lowercase letters, lining and oldstyle figures, basic punctuation, math symbols, currency, diacritics, and ligatures. If there were an ideal typesetter for it, they would tightrope what it can do in terms of legible writing with its potential to work as graphic art.
Silkscreen on vinyl sticker for Kima ten year anniversary
105 K.73r 2023
Started in February 2021, K.73r is a geometric sans type family in 5 styles. Continuing early Modernist exercises about modular typography, it is constructed of square, circle, triangle in counterpoint. Unlike those types, and as a working font file created a full century later, K.73r’s ultra-expansive type table is made up of 9,989 glyphs, with up to 100 alternates per character. K.73r is both functional and experimental. Its highly legible base style should interact with its stylistic counterparts to affirm the poetic and practical potential of all intelligently designed language.
Specimen
Edition of 30 44 pages 9 × 12 in Stitchbound digital print
Edition of 4 + 2 AP Tag 2.5 × 11 in Bell diameter 1.625 in Nambu cast iron wind chime with 2-sided hand silkscreened cotton tag
Opening melody of Joe Hisaishi’s “A Town with an Ocean View.”
101 Mantis 2022
Short film 18 min 10 sec
Director Nathan Rickard
Art director Lauren Graycar
Cast Tracy Nguyen Trang Nguyen
Over a series of trips to visit Nathan’s father in Arizona, we filmed a portrait of daily life with his step sister and her mother. Over time, we observed their relationship and documented the environment surrounding their intersecting family ties.
Edition of 16 12 pages 7.375 × 10.75 in Hand silkscreen each page on stitchbound high gloss digital print
Cover lettering from Johann Schönsperger the Younger’s 1529 edition of Ein new getruckt model Büchli: earliest known textile pattern book and first printed fashion publication.
Edition of 7 Cotton mock neck shirt US medium only Custom embroidery
Ornamentation drawn from the Hawaii State Public Library System motif. Clothing tags include section of traditional Slovak kroj ribbon made in the Czech Republic.
85 Places to Visit 2020
Edition of 24 12 pages 6.5 × 10.125 in book 12 × 7.5 in poster Stitchbound digital print with newsprint poster insert
2019 in movies and snacks. Poster still from Hong Sang-soo’s Grass, 2018.
My grandfather’s original Slovak last name in custom drawn type after the work of Martin Benka (b. 1888, Kostolište, Slovakia). Made in the Czech Republic.
82 For NRG 2019
Edition of 50 + 10 AP 28 pages 7 × 10 in Stitchbound digital print with glassine endsheets
Photographs by Zoë Ghertner
81 How We Used to Live 2019
Edition of 20 20 pages 5.75 × 9 in Stitchbound digital print
Collected interviews with Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne on being young, going on benders, and loving David Essex.
Edition of 18 + 3 AP 20 pages 9 × 12 in 8 × 10 in C-print Stitchbound digital offset print and single C-print in hand silkscreened butcher paper wrapping
Edition of 20 16 pages 6.25 × 9 in Stitchbound digital print
75 Almost No Memory 2019
Edition of 12 + 4 AP 8.5 × 12.5 in Digital offset prints in hand silkscreened portfolio 9 digital offset prints (8 × 12 in) 1 newsprint poster (12 × 16 in)
Photographs by Nathan Rickard taken in Los Angeles and Taiwan
Edition of 15 12 pages 6.1875 × 9 in Stitchbound digital print
Journey to Italy, Roberto Rossellini, 1954; Theorem, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968; La Danse, Frederick Wiseman, 2009; A Good Marriage, Éric Rohmer, 1982; Secrets of Women, Ingmar Bergman, 1952.
C-pop, HK-pop, and cha cha compilation by James Elaine, artist and curator in Beijing.
64 A few steps ahead, a cherry stone. In my mouth, the taste of cherry. A few steps behind, the cherry tree. 2017
Edition of 25 16 pages 5.25 × 8 in Stitchbound digital print with cover tipped-in plate
Films from verse. Featuring Address, Sohrab Sepehri (Where is the Friend’s Home?, Abbas Kiarostami), Book of Revelation 8:1, 6 (The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman), Age of Bloom, Zhou Xuan (In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai).
Edition of 20 Cotton t-shirt US medium & large only Hand silkscreen
Originally designed by Harsh Patel in 2006 for Raymond Tseng’s store Lion’s Den. Cities was a series of shirts marking Chinese suburbs in greater LA. They were given to friends and family. The original colorway was yellow and black.
62 C.Z. 2017
Edition of 15 + 3 AP 4 prints 6 × 8 in folded Suite of prints in envelope, various sizes
Edition of 20 28 pages 6 × 8.5 in Stitchbound digital print
60 Sketchbook 2017
Edition of 10 102 pages 8.5 × 11 in Digital print with hand tape binding
Decorative borders drawn from the illustrations and sketches of neoclassical French architect, interior decorator, and designer Charles Percier (1764–1838)
Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair 2017
July 14–16
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
59 Chamomile 2017
Arrangement by Paul Forney
58 Vaganova Ballet Academy 2017
Edition of 15 Cotton sweatshirt US small only Hand silkscreen
Oh! 2017
Ditch Projects Springfield, OR May 20–June 17
Oh! presents a selection of work from Kima.
Also included is an “exhibition within an exhibition” with works by friends/collaborators Theresa Guntli, Miles Jopling, Harsh Patel, and Jessica Williams.
57 Two Texts on Wanda 2017
Edition of 15 36 pages 7.75 × 10.125 in Stitchbound digital print book with CAD poster jacket French and English
Two texts on the film Wanda (1970) by Barbara Loden. Marguerite Duras and Elia Kazan in conversation, Cahiers du Cinéma, December 1980. Stéphane Delorme on Wanda, Cahiers du Cinéma, July–August 2003.
Willi Wegener (Magdeburg) designed Alpha and Beta in 1910 for the Frankfurt type foundry Flinsch. This revival was created between 2016 and 2017 in Mar Vista, Highland Park, and Altadena, California. The letterforms and their alternates are drawn near-exact to his originals, and the ornaments are culled from different sources and time periods. As little is known about the original author, the gap in history is filled by interpretation.
Edition of 10 + 3 AP 10 × 15 in Digital and CAD prints in hand silkscreened, handmade portfolio 3 CAD prints (18 × 27 in) 4 posters (8 × 12 in) 2 postcards (4 × 6 in)
