Design from Brooklyn with Love

Hmmm, Benjamin Netanyahu’s new website sure looks familiar. I guess we are pretty good friends with Israel these days huh? Check out what the New York Times had to say about it.

As you may recall, before the election, we contributed to an event in D.C. raising money for the Obama campaign by raffling off our posters to a couple lucky attendees. In return, we got some lovely pix of some big-time advisor types in front of our art. Amongst these notables was Mona Sutphen, then ’sort-of’ deputy chief to Obama Asia policy advisor Jeffrey Bader. Now, Sutphen has been named one of the incoming White House staff members as a Deputy Chief of Staff. See, not only can Ms. Sutphen work a killer wrap dress, hang with numerous dudes in varying navy suit/red tie-combos and recognize cool art when she sees it, but she’s apparently number one with bossing White House underlings around. Congratulations, Mona and good luck (do us proud)!

This looks to be an amazing documentary.

Thanks to Chris for the heads up.

Obama is about to make his mark on NYC. We have put together a fundraising effort to pay for a billboard congratulating the President-elect. We need your help to make it happen! Make a small contribution and spread the news to friends:

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The great thing about this post? Pretty self-explanatory, really. Just follow the link: 9 Reasons Not to Date a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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These great pics, taken from behind the scenes on election night 2008, capture the soon-to-be President Elect Barack Obama with Jo Biden, watching the television coverage with their family and staff; including John McCain’s concession speech. The photos appear to give a really intimate look at what seem like private moments between Obama and his wife, mother-in-law, daughters and Vice Presidential Candidate; as well as congratulatory comraderie with his staff. There are also pics of the candidate and his crew making the journey to the stage to make his acceptance speech. See the flickr set here .

Hyperakt’s New Hope exhibit at Flux Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland was mentioned (albeit briefly) on the Rachel Meadow show on MSNBC. Even though we’re not exactly Swiss, we appreciate the mention on national tv! Take a look, but beware the naked voter (for serious). We’re about halfway through the program.

Beloved ex-Hyperakter Michael Ciancio was recently interviewed by Dutch design blog, Fontanel. Recounting his experiences working for small-yet-spunky Brooklyn design studio Hyperakt, international-art-factory Fabrica and his current post at Manhattan design firm Wolff Olins, Cianchi modestly points out that he’s only just begun after being out of school for only a couple of years. No matter, Fontonal clearly understands the emergence of significant work when they see it. Or as commenter ‘Staynice’ so eloquently put it, ‘jjjaaaaaa…is nice!’. Check it.

We’ve got more Obama art for you. This series is called “Victory” (click on the image to see it bigger) and it features both Barack and Michelle Obama. We have six sets of 100 beautifully printed silkscreen prints. All the prints are signed and numbered by artist Deroy Peraza, and measure 16″ X 24″. Prints will ship immediately.

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Set of Six

Grey Blue/Navy Blue

Orange/Blue

Pale Green/Brown

Red/Purple

Sky Blue/Blue

Burgundy/Olive

On the morning of November 5, I spent about an hour wandering New York City trying to find a Times, but to no avail—every bodega and corner store was sold out. I really just wanted to glimpse the image again. Now, closely related to Deroy’s post yesterday, here is an overwhelming collection of publications from the world over featuring Obama’s historic victory. I would still love to hold the paper in my hands, but the sight of this is amazing in itself.

Here are a few of my favorites.