Simon Griffee
Design consulting, art direction, photography.

January 2019

Magdalena Baczewska Poster 2019, New York City, 2019

Published 2019 January 31

Another poster for one my favorite pianists, Magdalena Baczewska.

A recital of works by Bach, Busoni, Debussy, Chopin, Schumann & R.A. Arjomand ¶ Wednesday · February 27 2019 · 7 PM · In the Teatro of the Italian Academy at Columbia University ¶ 1161 Amsterdam Ave. (South of 118th St.) New York City ¶ Free Admission.

Here is the image used in the poster followed by some outtakes from the rehearsal shoot:

Magdalena Baczewska in the Teatro of the Italian Academy, 2019.
Magdalena Baczewska in the Teatro of the Italian Academy, 2019.
Magdalena Baczewska in the Teatro of the Italian Academy, 2019. Magdalena Baczewska in the Teatro of the Italian Academy, 2019. Magdalena Baczewska in the Teatro of the Italian Academy, 2019.

Julius Eastman Poster, New York City, 2019

Published 2019 January 30

The Italian Academy presents
MARCO FUSI · violin, viola d’amore
KUKURUZ QUARTET · pianos
Philip Bartels, Duri Collenberg, Simone Keller, Lukas Rickli
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019 AT 7 PM
Julius Eastman · Gay Guerrilla (1979)
Marcel Zaes · Quartet No.10 for four electronic metronomes (2016)
John Cage · The ten thousand things (1953/56)
Salvatore Sciarrino · Fra sé (2009)
Giacinto Scelsi · Xnoybis I, II, III (1965)
Salvatore Sciarrino · Capriccio di una corda (2009)
ADMISSION IS FREE; FIRST COME FIRST SEATED.
The Italian Academy · Columbia University · 1161 Amsterdam Ave. (south of 118th St.) NYC
With kind support from the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, and from Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council. Photo of Julius Eastman by Donald W. Burkhardt.

See the full color sun-circle imagery on Dribbble.

Beacon’s Closet, Brooklyn, New York City, 2019

Published 2019 January 27

Martin, Bruce and Nina, No Flash, New York City, 2019

Published 2019 January 24

Meeting Martin Parr together with my mentor, friend, and part-time boss, Bruce Gilden, was an emotional moment for me. They both remind me of different sides of my late father, Peter John Griffee. Martin lives where my father was born, Bristol, and his pictures of the beaches in England remind me of my trips there as a child. I met Bruce in a workshop shortly before my father’s passing in 2012, and I remember dad telling me, not long before he went: “I wish I could have met him.”

“No flash, Simon?”

Here you go, Martin!

Martin, Bruce and Nina, With Flash.

Waldorf Astoria, New York City, 2015

Published 2019 January 21

42nd Street and 5th Avenue, New York City, 2018

Published 2019 January 19

Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, 2019

Published 2019 January 17

KJT, Thomas, West Virginia, 2019

Published 2019 January 15

KJT in action!

Near Cumberland, Maryland, 2019

Published 2019 January 14

With Milton Glaser, New York City, 2017

Published 2019 January 9

I ❤️ Milton. Photograph by Dan Bates.

West 120th Street, New York City, 2015

Published 2019 January 7

Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, 2018

Published 2019 January 2

imgtlk

Introducing a little project called imgtlk where people write about an image, or piece of art that can be represented visually (music, math, sculpture, literature, architecture, computer games, and so on), that was important to them, or inspired them somehow. It can be something they made themselves, or a piece created by someone else.

The lips, or flying piece of paper, above, is the dot on the i of the logotype, set in Linotype Helvetica Zilla Slab, like the rest of the typography.

Prior version:

imgtlk

Not bad, but not as friendly as this, I feel:

imgtlk

Quickly trying new variations of things — quick iteration — leads to better work, so please consider the logo, as well as this project, a work in progress.

This is a personal project that aims to inspire people and encourage thinking and publishing in the open internet — an egg thrown at the walled garden of social media, against centralization, in the name of the independent web (publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere).

It is not something to be “monetized” or sold in any way (other than the project logo), and contributors retain full ownership of their work.

Here’s a list of entries so far.

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