I’ve been turning over this idea in my mind for a long time now, and am happy to finally introduce the Calligraphy Necklace! It’s a twist on the traditional and ubiquitous calligraphy necklace, with each pendant actually generated from hand-written calligraphy. I partnered with the very talented Crystal Kluge, who hand letters each custom pendant, making each necklace as unique as the wearer. Besides making a beautiful product, I was also interested in juxtaposing a very precise and machined material (stainless steel) with handwritten text.

On another note – tomorrow we’re headed to Pittsburgh for a wedding. We’ve been pretty swamped this week with various projects, so we weren’t able to get posts together for Thursday or Friday, but we will be back on Monday, as usual! In the meantime, have an awesome weekend!

Jenna of Sweet Fine Day recently launched a new project called The Mixed Race Project, where she photographed three different mixed race families in their homes (we’re one of them!). Rather than focusing on the traditional visual documentation of the face, Jenna focused on our homes – on how we live and eat and bring our different cultures into our home lives.

It’s totally crazy to think that interracial marriages were illegal in the United States until 1967. I think it’s great to be able to talk about race openly and honestly, and we were so pleased to be a part of The Mixed Race Project. I look forward to seeing more families as Jenna adds them to the site.

All photo credits: Jenna Park.

We had the opportunity recently to design a show poster for Cut Copy’s concert tonight in Prospect Park, which benefits Celebrate Brooklyn. It was a lot of fun to design a poster for a band we admire.

Cut Copy selected the design shown above, which is probably the most subtle of the five designs we submitted. Had time permitted, I would have loved to have done a screenprint of one of the more graphic designs. Perhaps for some other show!

I believe that the show is sold out, but if you were lucky enough to get tickets, and you like our poster, you can pick one up at the show. It is a limited edition of 250. The other designs we came up with are shown below.

The one above was my favorite design, although Sean thought it was too literal.

Goodmorning Sub-Studio Readers!

As some of you may or may not know, for the past few years we have been trying to make the move from NYC to the Northwest, but the economy hasn’t been very cooperative. Anna works from home and can be easily transplanted from one coast to the other, but it is necessary for me to find a position there before we commit to making the move.

I am currently looking for a project architect/project designer position in a medium to large architecture firm with a focus on education or cultural projects. For the last 4 years I have been a project architect at a small NYC firm designing and managing projects for K-8 private schools in NYC. The 3 years previous to that I worked on high-end residential projects at another small office.

My hope is that our readers work in some of these firms or have friends who work in these firms. I’m open to any office, but these are the ones I thought stood out over the last few years of researching firms. Seattle and Portland are the two first-choice cities, but Vancouver, SF, and LA are also possibilities.

If you do have a contact, please forward the information or cc me on an introductory email (seanauyeung at gmail.com) and I will take care of the portfolio and resume. We will be in Seattle the first two weeks of July and I hope to be able to see a few people while we are there.

Thanks to anyone who can help and thanks for continuing to support the blog!

The Firms (in no particular order):
Seattle:
LMN
Mahlum
NBBJ
DLR Group
SHKS
Olson Kundig
Johnston Architects
Gensler
GGLO
Mithun
SHED Architecture
Pique Architecture
NAC Architecture
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Schreiber Starling + Lane
Perkins + Will
Callison
Miller Hull Partnership

Portland:
Boora Architects
Allied Works
THA Architecture
SRG Partnership

Vancouver:
Perkins + Will
Patkau
HCMA

LA or SF?

If you are in NYC this weekend, stop by Gifts Galore & Cupcakes, a holiday pop-up shop curated by Jessica of The Shiny Squirrel at the International Playground. She’s selling some of my Brevity line (some of the Geometric styles and the new Lines styles), as well as a bunch of other awesome brands, including Laura Lombardi, Thief & Bandit , and Species by the Thousands (all shown below). The opening party is tonight, from 7-9.

Happy weekend, everyone!

Hey, peeps! As most of you already know from previous posts, Sean and I are having a baby in February. In order to prepare for the baby’s imminent arrival (we live and work out of a 400-square foot apartment), we are having a year-end sale! Most of our cards, journals and some prints are on sale for up to 50% off! Help us clear out our apartment, and get some cute, hand-printed papergoods to boot! You can find all of our goods in our online shop.

Happy holidays! Thank you for your support over the years! We’re looking forward to 2011!

We are stoked that our concrete vases process got to be featured in the trailer for Crafting A Meaningful Home that Meg Mateo Ilasco put together a trailer with photog/videographer Thayer Gowdy. Check out the trailer and the other projects, and get your copy of the book at Amazon.

We don’t get personal much in this space, but we wanted to share some upcoming news with you – Sean and I are having a baby! We’re having a little girl in early February and we are super excited to meet her. Nothing much will change on this blog, but if you are interested in design-y baby items, we will be posting our favorite finds and documenting our growing family over here.

PS – This gorgeous driftwood art is by Ginette Lapalme. Via Mini-Eco.

It is absolute insanity to think that we started this blog in September of 2006 and it is now Summer 2010! But since then, the blog has only had minor tweaks to the design. We decided we had to up our game and make our blog a little more grown-up. We hope you enjoy the new look and thank you for all your support over the last 4 years!

I’m taking a page out of Notcot’s book and am posting a few of the different #ObjectHunt photos that have been tweeted so far. It’s been so fun seeing all the different photos come in as the stickers have been found.

Tomorrow (May 18th) is the last day to find the stickers and tweet them to #ObjectHunt for a chance to win two nights at the Standard LA, two tickets to Dwell on Design, and an Eero Aarnio puppy. Cool Hunting is also offering an iPad to another #ObjectHunt winner. We’ve been dropping location hints on twitter, and if you don’t already know the rules, you can check them out here. Happy #objecthunt-ing!