Here's Kerry, his wife, and Tanja Babich from ABC7 underneath a logo I created for the Wood Family Foundation Storybook Gala waaaaay back in 2015 when I worked at some agency. And then also a pic of Kerry and I from April 2016, best friends, obviously.
Ron Karkovice?
You.
I can't make it, but I do approve of this font choice!
Ut oh...a whole month earlier than last year...
Same here.
Ooooh I bet that was 8 or 9 years ago at Neighborly...?
Daaaaang, I appreciate @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social and her obsessive buying of prints so much. Check this out!
That is a pro-level move there, Liz!
Nina, thanks so much for writing this article and sharing my art with a larger audience, I appreciate it so much! I have gotten so many great emails (and orders!) this week from Chicagoans past and present, and it has been so heartwarming.
Slanted color photo of a relief of a king in a series of recessed mouldings on the side of a building. Dude has beard, wears a crown, and holds a sword and something else, a torch? A novelty paintbrush?
No Kings includes this asshole near the Viagra Triangle
(Friday at 9:20am)
Yes! Thanks for pointing that out. Some of the illustrations have honestly only sold a handful (or less) of prints, but representation is so important to me. Everyone deserves to be able to have that sense of pride in where they come from or where they live, so that is why I do what I do with these.
Aw shucks, thanks so much for all of the support!
Well, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...
Thanks so much!
What are the top six? I need to know so I can go pay'em a visit to make sure you get to that top spot sooner rather than later...
Thank you!
I believe I have you to thank for this! Nina told me that she saw you share one of my Pride Cleaners fonts a while back, so she reached out.
In a previous life (maybe five years ago at my former job) I designed a Paul Whiteman-related album...
www.cedillerecords.org/albums/leo-s...
This reminds me a lot of the house on Irving Park, just west of Western, with the big billboard in front of it.
Yeah! It makes me smile every time I see it, whether in person or in pics, so I wanted to draw it. It is such a weird location, and I know it wasn't originally like that when it was built, but it seems so wrong that a cool building like this is just shoved into that oddly shaped parcel.
This style of two-flat with large front stepped gables and ground level entrances are mostly on the NW and SW side of the city, particularly the SW side. I've never figured out why they are so heavily concentrated there. There are a few on the NW side in neighborhoods like Avondale and Mayfair too This is a miniature linocut print depicting 3 brick two-flats on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Printed with black oil ink on kitakata paper
Three two-flats on Pulaski near 31st in Little Village.
At first glance they all look identical with ground level entrances and large front gables
But there are small stylistic variations making each one unique
4x6 mini #linocut print
Saw @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social 's post and photos, got inspired. I love this building that occupies a weird slice of land at the corner of 79th/Stony Island/South Chicago in Avalon Park.
And here's how the letters look...
Font 22: PRIDE is the second font inspired by the Pride Cleaners sign in the Chatham neighborhood in Chicago. It was recently announced that Pride Cleaners would be closing, but hopefully the amazing sign and iconic building will be saved 🤞🤞🤞
www.thechicagoneighborhoods.com/fonts/p/pride
Dang, didn't OIB use AI art recently-ish too? I remember you calling that out a while back. Not impressed with the operation they're running over there.
If it's anything like Chicago, it will be 30 and snowing tomorrow...
