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REBUILD LONG ISLAND
Obviously I am dumbfounded by the devastation around our area. A lot of friends, families and our customers got affected by Sandy. We got spared from some of the major effects the storm brought so I am working on some new art and some fundraising options to help support. My hands and hearts go out to all those affected.
Here's a few quick desktops and icons for your computer or FB page.
Fall Show List
Mark your calenders for some great events coming up.
Long Beach: August 25-26th on the boardwalk
Argyle Lake Arts & Craft Fair, Babylon NY: Sunday, Sept 9th
West Islip Country Fair: September 23rd
Bay Ridge 3rd Ave festival: Sunday September 30th
Irish Fest Long Beach: October 6th
Oyster Fest 2012: October 13th and 14th inside the tents
St. Anthony's Mothers Guild Holiday Fair: November 3rd St. Anthony's High School, Hicksville NY
Updated Store List
I added a few more stores on where you can find some of my type maps.
Here's an updated list of who, what and where.
MANHATTAN
Harlem Flo (currently in construction merging boutique and florist)
2276 Frederick Douglass Blvd (Eighth Ave)
Harlem
Time out article about them here.
Carries New York City map framed and unframed
51 Avenue A
New York, NY 10009
212) 228-0145
BROOKLYN
Shop Exit 9 Cobble Hill
Carries Brooklyn map framed and unframed
127 Smith Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 422-7720
Papel
Carries Brooklyn map framed and unframed
225 Court Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 422-0255
Homebody Boutique
Carries Brooklyn map framed and unframed
449 7th Ave # 1 Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 369-8980
Frame Me
Carries Brooklyn map framed and unframed
9014 3rd Ave # A Brooklyn, NY 11209
(718) 748-5259
QUEENS
Site NYC
Carries Queens framed and unframed maps, Queens T Shirts and Brooklyn and NYC boxed maps.
35-11 34th Avenue.
We are conveniently located near the Steinway R/M line, or the Broadway N/Q lines.
LONG ISLAND
Klines
Carries Long Island and Fire Island framed and unframed maps
Bay Walk,
Ocean Beach NY
Fire Island
New retail stores carrying my art
I am proud to announce that we have added a new store to the mix of places where you can buy some of my posters. Welcome SiteNYC in Astoria is the newest location to join Harlem Flo Boutique up on Marcus Garvey Blvd in Harlem and Kline's in Ocean Beach, FIre Island. If your in the neighborhood of these stores go ahead and stop in, they each offer some really great product and I could'nt be in better company.
Farmingdale Street Fair
We had a spur of the moment opportunity to have a booth at the Farmingdale fair out on Main St. over the weekend. Was a perfect day to get outside and I wanted to thank all the people that came through the booth. We are always grateful of the compliments and gratitude we get from people and am glad to add something different to these types of events. Graphic design, and good art in general, should always be something that is readily available to the people. I am glad we can contrast the things you see with something that is original, our own and as one thoughtful gentleman put it "valid".
It's also really great to see the disparity of people that buy from us. I sold to a woman who's sending a Long Island map to her family in Thailand, an Aussie who was bringing home a Manhattan map for himself, a ride your bike, jets and giants poster to a football loyalty confused bicycle lover, an Ireland map to and Irishman from Leitrim and of course several LI maps to people from the neighborhood. Indeed a few steps closer to global supremacy that even a little kid throwing up outside our booth cant stop.
One thing I wanted to point out, based on a comment from a customer, is that I was able to make an addition to the Long Island surf beaches poster. So welcome Tobay Beach, the often overlooked neighbor of Gilgo to the mix. Am having these printed as lithographs and are available immediately.
Thanks again to all the customers and other people who showed interest. I also decided to continue having free shipping so that you can get something you may have not pulled the trigger on, and not have to pay for the shipping. If you have any questions feel free to email me or drop a comment in post.
Brooklyn Type Map
I recently made my version of a Brooklyn type map to add to the rest of the print collection. It has been on my list for a while in what my Chinese calender refers to as the year of the type maps. After I made the first 6 or 7 , I figured it was time to tackle the place where I have been living for almost ten years and after finishing I think it's time to give a recap of where I am at with the project as a whole.
I got inspired to a Long Island map after seeing a few others and knowing I could do a better job. The main difference being mine are done in my own hand style and use no fonts at all. Every letter to all of the hoods, countie, states or prefectures was created freehand which takes hours of time drawing on and off the computer. Props due to some to other ones that are out their, especially this one from a girl out in the UK named Ursula Hitz who has done some nice maps including one of London city as well as a cropped section of the 5 boro's very nicely. Here is a shirt by the team over at BK Industries that uses some typefaces, not really feeling that one though. And while I dont care much for the design and use of a single font, I got to give this girl props for building a solid line of maps. Finally the team over at Axis Maps that use type and traditional cartography to make some truly beautiful and accurate maps. I just bought their map of Chicago as a memento to where i recently proposed to my fiance.
So their you have it, a little bit of a reference for different type maps. I hope you'll find mine to be different from the others, at a great price and worth your hard earn $$. I sure enjoy making them and have several more on the radar and in the works to complete my collection.
The team over at Axis Maps that does a really great job on their maps. I think they have some sort of software that generates these since they offer many different types of mapping services.
Dope London city type map with hand letteing and kerning. Really well done.
Some color options. Still not sure which one I am going with.
The gluttony of hoods downtown and beyond.