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delighted to announce …

… my article “From the Collection: The Women of Photo-Lettering” just posted to Letterform Archive’s website! When Briar Levit and I presented “Not Typecast: Two Women and Their Typography at […]

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Reading

I find myself hungry to slow way down, read deliberately, think through what I’m reading. I’ve always been a fast “recognizer” of letterforms, responding to subtitles at the cinema a […]

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Is it OK to write about food?

Academics [strikethrough] designers [strikethrough] people eat, right? It’s an overcast, chilly Sunday in upstate New York. I need something tasty and filling and quick. This almost-bibimbop (no banchan, side dishes) […]

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ISDi and SUNY New Paltz students

Somos Cuba

A 2018‑19 Winter Intersesssion collaboration of SUNY New Paltz and Instituto Superior de Diseño (ISDi) students in Havana, Cuba During January 2019, after six months of planning travel and curriculum, […]

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Pit's Letter book cover

Portfolio highlights!

For several years I designed books, most cover-to-cover, as well as some cd packaging, and ephemera for museums. Here’s a sampling of print works. Pit’s Letter [above], an illustration-driven anti-vivisection […]

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Collective Consciousness

I’m delighted to announce that two pieces of my work will be exhibited as part of the SUNY New Paltz Art Faculty show Collective Consciousness, February 6-April 11, 2021. Here’s […]

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baseline shift

I just finished the final edit on my essay “Betti Broadwater Haft: ‘Letterforms Are Sacred to Me,'” included in the upcoming (Fall 2021) Princeton Architectural Press book Baseline Shift: Untold […]

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A poster @ SHOT 2019: Milan, Italy!

I’ve been interested in functional wearables for about three years now, learning about the field and teaching myself how to make simple garments. As my knowledge base grows it’s commensurately […]

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FORMA 2019: Havana, Cuba

In June 2019 I was fortunate to return to Havana for a second time this year to present with Alfredo Rodriguez, my dear ISDi colleague, our January 2019 design student […]