2009
We have worked on projects together since 2009 when we joined our friend Jenni to launch IndySpectator, an email newsletter about what to do in post-Recession Indianapolis, written by an expansive group of intermittently-employed 20-year-olds.
2011
In 2011, we co-founded Pattern, a biannual fashion magazine and monthly meetup. The first issue featured Grace Hartzel on the cover. We worked as editors (and writers and stylists and photographers) for the first four issues. There was also a short-lived trends column called Hemline (“fashion as the present’s potential”) that opened with: "Aesthetics are their market value. Ideologies, too."
In 2012, we launched INDYxParis, a multi-week Marais-based immersive program for young entrepreneurs to work abroad with Le Camping and Silicon Sentier. The project culminated in a piece called “Oh Bondage, I’m Yours” for Pattern and an interactive thing for TEDx in 2013.
RETAIL PROJECT
2013-2017
For four years we operated a retail and community space called PRINTtEXT (a name and identity that has evolved alongside our work). The location at 652 E 52nd Street started as a magazine + book shop where we hosted hundreds of events (a launch party for Marfa Journal’s fourth issue; an afternoon with The Tenth Zine; a panel discussion with Cherry Bombe), openings, readings, and meetups. Our work was featured in Riposte, 032c, Need Supply, Vogue, Juxtapoz, Driftless, Magculture, and more. We spoke at Creative Mornings in 2015 and to an AIGA audience in 2014. Readings included evenings with Monster House Press and Soft River and Rokh, Kaveh Akbar and Bree Joann, FAF Collective and more. Art openings included work from Alice Tippit and Nathaniel Russell (through A\M’s Syntax Season, featured in Women Artists and in this Didactic broadsheet we published), Vito Acconci (with Christopher West), Rebekah Nolan, and Anna Martinez.
In 2014, we published a zine series under the name Cake Hat that paired icons and tabloids with recipes. Issues included: Pad Thai Smith and Robertofu, Sorbet Gainsbourg (all lemon zest sorbets with alcohol), Parizine (Paris Hilton + recipes that use expensive metals and jewels?), and the inexplicably named The Falafelist about Cat Marnell.
From 2015-2019 we worked with ad agencies and video production companies on dozens of commercial shoots as set designers, art directors, and stylists — building out environments and sourcing and styling wardrobe for a variety of clients, from utility companies and school systems to tech startups and industrial design firms.
2016
In 2016, we designed and published our first print project, a broadsheet about the Museum of Psychphonics in partnership with Michael Kaufmann. The project was featured in The Wire and 032c and launched our ongoing broadsheet series, Didactic. Issues that followed: Mental Health and Luxury, Exhibit Columbus, Syntax Season, and a two-part political offshoot called Asymmetry. We also worked with Commercial Artisan and Manuja Waldia on our INDPLS Guide Book, which we edited, wrote, and published.
From 2016-2018 we created stop motion animations and still lifes for clients and friends including Loacker, Short Stack Editions, Indianapolis Monthly, Patachou, Kaveh Akbar, as well as other nonprofit and corporate clients.
2017
At the end of 2017 we became a full-time design and publishing studio. Projects included designing and editing Brush Master, a risograph book with Half Letter Press in Chicago, designing a retrospective broadsheet for the House Life Project, and leading a series of self-publishing and zine-making workshops. We worked with Stuart Hyatt on Metaphonics, a book and box set we edited and designed that culminated with a concert in Indianapolis, followed by a museum lecture tour in Europe (Stedelijk, Wiels, Printroom).
2018-2020
From 2018-2020, we consulted with Indianapolis Contemporary (formerly iMOCA) as communications directors, simultaneously leading a full rebrand and starting an online arts writing publication, Abstract (which we edited for eight issues + one print edition). We launched I/C with acclaim from Artforum and concluded as what Le Monde referred to as "the pandemic’s first arts establishment victim”.
2019
In 2019, we worked with Deantoni Parks to design an identity for Technoself, his immersive artificial-organic-hybrid festival-workshop-performance. We designed and published Crashing Through the Front Door, a book by Casey No and Taylor Rose that documented Indianapolis' queer community through the lens of Low Pone, a monthly dance party. We also designed a series of box sets for Son Lux (who we’d first worked with when we produced their Lanterns release shoot in 2013).
2020
In 2020, we’re in our apartment working on a series of album designs, a hardcover book (Alaska, tundra, hymnal), and a risograph book (with Maria Medem, Stuart Hyatt, and Studio Fidele); we’re managing social media for people; we’re creating websites for partners and clients and friends (Flatland Kitchen!), we’re going back to school, moved to New York, etc.
