Creating work between and around art and commerce, print and digital, culture and content.

 
 
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What We Do

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Set Design and Styling

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Stop-motion Animation

 
Lauren Zoll with her black bean ink paintings last night at her brilliant opening // Wavelength is up at Telene Edington’s gallery through April 6 👩‍🔬👩‍🎨👩‍🍳
Early zines from our archives that we published under the name Cake Hat. Pairing icons, tabloids, and… recipes // Pad Thai Smith & Robertofu (Patti + Mapplethorpe + vegan pad thai); Sorbet Gainsbourg (lemon zest sorbets + various alcohols); Parizine (Paris Hilton + recipes that used expensive metals and jewels?); and the inexplicably named The Falafelist about Cat Marnell.
Three years, twelve publications! // After the first Didactic edition in 2016, we continued publishing the broadsheet series as a sequence of CMYK volumes. Each issue was connected to an exhibition or event, featuring commissioned writing and art. Interspersed between Didactic editions was our two-part political Asymmetry series. And then we added books (and booklets) — a guide to Indianapolis with Commercial Artisan, a massive book on the music and theory of field recording with Stuart Hyatt, a risograph project with Half Letter Press on outsider art and sign painting, a broadsheet with House Life Project on housing and equity, a piece of terrazzo-faux-fur propaganda for PRINTtEXT, and most recently Taylor Rose & Casey No’s Crashing Through The Front Door. And so many new projects set for this year — we can’t wait to share them! 📚⚡️
Tomorrow is the reopening of the Museum of Psychphonics, three years after its first incarnation. In 2016, when it first opened, we were commissioned by Michael Kaufmann to create a piece that would accompany it. That broadsheet became the first in a series of publications we designed and published. At the time, we were focused on selling other people’s work in our retail space and hadn’t really considered creating our own publications. The Museum was created by Kipp Normand as a pocket-sized, universe-expanding collection of music-related mythologies — and it pushed us to expand our vision of what PRINTtEXT could be and do, opening us up to a universe of possibilities and partners and projects 🛸🔮✨
Such an incredible exhibition and book release for @crashingthroughthefrontdoor! So many thanks to @emrotayl and @impenetrable.american.teeth for bringing us along — and for writing and photographing and documenting with such care and precision and beauty. And happy second birthday to @lowpone, whose queer dance party is a vision/manifestation of radical inclusion, avant garde drag, and transformative community.
We had the privilege of designing this book for Taylor Rose and Casey No’s incredible project, Crashing Through The Front Door. The book collects essays, oral histories, and photographs, examining queer life in Indianapolis through the lens of Low Pone, a monthly dance party. Working with Taylor and Casey was such an immense joy — their brilliance, compassion, and community-oriented vision are astounding. // The book will be released as part of a larger exhibition of their work: February 1st at Big Car’s Tube Factory. 🌹💕🎈
Avant Yawn interiors study
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