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Son Lux Box Set Vol 1 PRINTtEXT Joyful Noise Recording

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Set Design and Styling

 
Here’s what we designed for @son_lux’s first box set! Spot-gloss cutouts from each album cover, arranged as a wraparound piano roll melody from their music, in a hand-numbered edition, with the interior color being a peek at what’s next.
So many thanks to @deantoniparks for bringing us along as he created Technoself. What a wild dive into a world of artificial-organic-hybrid realities as we worked to design visuals for something equally specific and amorphous — “a place for computer scientists and percussionists, for artists, engineers, musicians, technologists… a deliberate cross-pollination.” Tickets for the May 17 event in Atlanta are available at technoself.org. “The self is not a thing, but a process.” More coming soon!
Coming home 🔮 So many new things coming soon!
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 🛸🔮✨
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