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| GLOW: a series of artist-designed glow in the dark buttons |
| Opens Friday, July 25th thru Saturday, July 26th, 2008, 6 to 10pm. Call 773 645 3359 for more info. |
| Please join Busy Beaver Button Co. in celebrating GLOW, a series of artist-designed, glow-in-the-dark buttons for our button vending machine, the Button-o-matic. Preview the glow-in-the-dark buttons and "turn the lights off" in the Button-o-matic gallery. GLOW button contributors include Bird Machine poster artist Jay Ryan, pattern designer Julia Rothman, Angry Youth Comix artist Johnny R., Chicago painter Derek Erdman, California painter Jacob Magraw, proponent of loveliness Alex Jovanovich, wild illustrator Kevin Hooyman, L.A.-based design collective Quietlife, Chicago rain-cloud street artist Sonny, and Milwaukee poster makers Little Friends of Printmaking | |||
Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring... Opens Friday, August 8th, 6-10pm, Saturday and Sunday call 773.203.4223 for appointments Commentary by Joseph Hernandez: In an increasingly digital world, it is easy to get lost in the morass of typography, graphics and words bleeding through every web page, site and magazine. Innovation, then, becomes a struggle to master expression over multiple media. Zach Plague, graphic designer and author, has proven this skill at shaping any media with his debut novel, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, printed by featherproof books in Chicago. In the novel, Plague melds both design and authorship to create a multidimensional work that crosses over from art to literature and vice versa. boring boring satirizes the boring lives of 19 year old art students, but the work itself is far from boring. Written over the course of five years, Plague decided to take the art school narrative a level further by toying with a traditionally staid art form: book printing. At the earliest level of book production, the text is printed on signatures, the mapped out, poster-sized version of the book before it is bound into its final form. Plague took plot elements from boring boring and at the signature level, played with typography and illustration, designing 9 not-boring works of art.
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