Simon Griffee
Department of graphic design, art direction, and photography.

July 2015

1 Line, 116th Street Station, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 31

5th Avenue, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 30

Prince Street, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 29

Canal Street, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 28

Broadway & 110th Street, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 27

Bryant Park, Zona, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 26

Just finished reading Zona by my favorite writer-who-is-not-dead Geoff Dyer after my trusted librarian recommended it to me.

First time I watched Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, the film Zona is about, I was too stoned to remember what I thought about it the following day, but I do remember what I felt, and recommed you watch Andrei’s film and read Geoff’s book, too.

The photograph above also reminds me of the Zone, which I seem to return to at regular intervals in my life, the last time being in 2010 while reading Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s novel Roadside Picnic which Tarkovsky’s film is loosely based on, and prior to that while exploring the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the Stalker computer game in 2007.

During Bruce & Sophie’s Moving Fitness Program, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 26

Margaret, Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2015

Published 2015 July 25

Bruno, Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2015

Published 2015 July 22

Jeff, Howard City, Michigan, July 2015

Published 2015 July 21

Dutch Television Weather Report, Manistee National Forest, Near Howard City, Michigan, July 2015

Published 2015 July 17

6th Avenue and 34th Street, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 13

6th Avenue, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 13

US Women’s World Cup Ticker Tape Parade, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 11

Broadway and 114th Street, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 11

Passed Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in Morningside Heights.

Richard Tucker Square, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 9

Ballet.

1 Train, New York City, April 2015

Published 2015 July 8

Columbia University, New York City, July 2015

Published 2015 July 8

West 13th Street, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 6

Broadway, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 6

West 4th Street Courts, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 5

Broadway, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 4

Herald Square, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 4

Spring Street, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 3

Central Park, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 2

8th Avenue, New York City, May 2015

Published 2015 July 1

To Zapf

Typography and calligraphy legend Hermann Zapf died last month.

I have set type with his wonderful typefaces in a lot of my work and am especially fond of Zapfino, visual music I’ve used in various projects after it was distributed with Apple’s first version of OS X.

Goodbye, Mr. Zapf, and thank you for your beautiful work which has enriched my life and allowed me to communicate with the help of your hand. The following poster is in your honor, using your words, in your forms.

Calligraphy is a peaceful and noble art, done by well educated human beings who do their work with full commitment, with intense concentration. For we want to put into our letters a little of our own feelings, of our personality and mood. Letters should have grace and beauty in themselves. No calligrapher pollutes rivers with his ink, or poisons the air we breathe. Calligraphy makes no noise. We don't fight with arms nor with our pens, but we want to convince sometimes with a hand-lettered message of special importance in which we believed.

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Guggenheim Alberto Burri Exhibition and Italian Academy Symposium

Alberto Burri poster.

A poster done for the Italian Academy at Columbia University advertising a symposium concurrent with the Guggenheim Museum’s retrospective, Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting.

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