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Topology: The Geometry That Isn’t

seth — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:51:36 +0000

This poster was created for a lecture on the topic of topology. While researching the practice I stumbled upon this quote from wikipedia

“An introductory exercise is to classify the uppercase letters of the English alphabet according to homeomorphism and homotopy equivalence. The result depends partially on the font used.”

Based on this I thought an interesting exercise would to be to create a typeface consisting of only the uppercase. This face would be designed with topological equivalence in mind. This poster was the result.

On Any Sunday

seth — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:29:26 +0000

“Just when I think everything is wrong with the world I come out here and see people having fun on motorcycles and it makes me take a second look”

Steve McQueen / On Any Sunday

Art Center College of Design Access Guide

seth — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:29:05 +0000

This access guide is delivered to every student that is accepted at Art Center in Pasadena, it provides simple information about the are and also helps the student to understand the required paperwork to attend the school.

Edinburgh is for Sleeping

seth — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:18:06 +0000

Having recently traveled to Europe to visit friends and check out some grad schools I thought my first trip out of the country was a worthy topic for some music.

Edinburgh was one of the more amazing places I have ever been and staying with my friend and former musical colleague was amazing. The night we got to Edinburgh we stayed up till 5am and due to a bit of jet lag and a lot of whiskey we slept in till 5pm the next day. Mr.Pitts took us out on the town and one of his friends related to our sleep-through-the-day ordeal, she said “I think Edinburgh was made for sleeping” so here is my little track featuring a sample of street sounds the morning evening we woke up.

I hope to make one of these for each town we visited. Hopefully I can follow through for once.

edinburgh is for sleeping

so apparently 1bit audio player the excellent mp3 playing plug-in by Mark Wheeler has been disabled by yet another stupid wordpress update. my apologies for the direct link.

World Tour 2010

seth — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:12:36 +0000

My lovely wife and I will be traveling to various countries in Europe to visit grad schools and meet with old friends. If you would like to schedule a meeting between January 23 and February 1 feel free to contact me.

Chris Schlarb Quintet / Nathaniel Frank Split CD

seth — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:34:40 +0000

I love Sounds are Active Records in Long Beach. They have consistently put out some of the more forward thinking free jazz, electronic music and avante garde rock in recent years. Having developed a friendship with Chris Schlarb over the years I was delighted to design the cover for this split release.

Obscure shapes coming together to make a whole, that’s how I think of jazz. Well… the best jazz anyway.

American Academy in China

seth — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:27:19 +0000

The USC School of Architecture recently created a new foundation to expose student in the United States to design in Asia. The American Academy in China organizes exchange programs between architecture students at USC and various institutions throughout China. This poster/brochure was meant to encourage student to apply for the program and explain the curriculum. I felt the idea of western and eastern design philosophy intermingling could be expressed by borders being undone, the globe in effect dissolving and becoming a single location.

Fancy

seth — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:46:25 +0000

My wife is a pretty fancy lady and she’s turning 30 this year. Since we think thats kinda like being officially grown up we wanted to have a dressy cocktail party. Our idea of dressy is so loose however that we though some examples might help.

Modified Roland TR-707

seth — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:10:26 +0000

The Roland TR-707 is a member of the infamous Roland TR line which included the dance classics such at the 808 and 909 which were pioneered through disco and dance music. The 707 however lack some of the depth and bass of the previously mentioned drum machines, however, because it is less precious I was far more apt to get in there and modify it. The sounds it is capable of in its modified state are truly astounding.

Make Something!

seth — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:56:52 +0000

Make Something is a charity organization envision by Aaron Rose and supported by Kanye West. Make Something exists to fill the ever increasing gap between education and art in public school around the world. Through holding works shops with renown artists such as Shepard Fairey, Miranda July and Terry Richardson, Make Something! shows students first hand the practical and important values of being creative throughout their lives.

This short promotional book was designed with the intent of gathering further funding for the organization. It showed examples of student works and logistical plans for helping the art community thrive through it’s programs. This book was produced in extremely small numbers and was given out privately.

Creative Direction: Willo Perron