New Art*o*Mat pieces – Series 2

With my first 50 Art*o*Mat pieces nearly sold out, I was asked to create another set. My second series of screen printed poster-wrapped blocks is complete, and will soon be distributed to Art*o*Mat machines around the country.

Photographs of the individual pieces will be up on my website soon, in the meantime below are some photos of Series 2. For more about Series 1, watch this video or check out these previous posts about my acceptance to the  program and my pieces starting to show-up in machines.

More photos in the San Francisco Chronicle

I recently posted about a new gig photographing for the San Francisco Chronicle Real Estate section.  Since then, two more assignments have been published with my photography on the cover and featured throughout the article. One is about the SoMa neighborhood in San Francisco, the other about the Ashby Station neighborhood in Berkeley. On both of these features I collaborated with writer and good friend, Jennifer Liss who researched and wrote the stories.

Attack!

I’ve been designing and art directing for Attack! for several years now. Attack! offers nationwide event staffing, field support, and guerrilla services focused on developing successful brand experiences. One of the first projects I did with them was to re-design the logo and visual identity by creating the Sumo silhouette. More recently I’ve designed some ads and a media kit for them…

The following advertisement will appear on the back cover of Event Marketer Magazine for the duration of 2010.

This animated banner is being served-up on the home page of Event Marketer Magazine online. View it below or visit www.eventmarketer.com to see it live.

And last year I designed this media kit for Attack!

The team at Attack! are tireless innovators and great collaborators.  Next-up: the Attack! website.  Stay tuned…

New look for Visual Texture

Visual Texture has a new look! The facelift employs a Wordpress theme called Modern-Clix. I subscribe to a “less is more” attitude when it comes to design, and after using a basic Wordpress template to get the blog off the ground it was time to make a change, switch themes, get nerdy, and fool with some code. The result is a cleaner, simpler layout that uses the Golden Rectangle principle, an aesthetically pleasing proportion favored by designers.

What I like: The simplicity of the theme lets the typography sing.  The horizontal lines are quiet yet effective. It is spare but has a solid structure.  It is VT’s new home.

Photos Published in the San Francisco Chronicle

Every Sunday the San Francisco Chronicle publishes a real estate section with stories about neighborhoods, properties, and trends in real estate, along with the regular listings. Late last year I was hired to photograph properties to accompany some of these stories. So far two of my assignments have been published; a cover story about Bay Area views, and a story about solar energy. Both are shown below. More to come…

Roberta Flack's new website

I’m pleased to announce the launch of Grammy Award winner Roberta Flack’s new website. I designed the visual layout and Michael Waters of Studio 678 managed the web development. Visit www.robertaflack.com to check it out.

Roberta Flack is best known for her Billboard number one hit “Killing Me Softly with His Song.” She won three Grammy Awards in 1973 including Song of the Year. In 1999 the song was inducted into the Grammy Awards Hall of Fame. Check her out tomorrow night when she performs at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, 8pm on CBS.

Sunken City | San Pedro, CA

Where the sidewalk ends, literally…

From LAOKAY.com:

When they said that California would fall into the sea, they weren’t kidding! Well, at least that was the case of San Pedro, California. In 1929 a sizeable section of land in the southern tip of San Pedro began to unexplainably slip into the sea. The 600 block of Paseo Del Mar began moving seaward in 1929 and continued to slip until the mid 1930s. Movement was measured as high as 11 inches a day. Due to quick action, all but two of the houses on the seaward side of the street were moved before toppling into the sea. The eastern section of Point Fermin Park was lost and the entire area is very unstable, yet not moving at the present time. Geologists have termed this phenomenon as a “slump” and this area has been featured in many geological studies and books. This geological mystery also occurs about 4 or 5 miles up the coast from this spot at Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes. The Portuguese Bend Slide Area is still moving and slipping into the sea. Sunken City is closed by chain link fencing, but may still be viewed at the south end of Pacific Avenue or the east end of Pt. Fermin Park at Paso Del Mar and Gaffey Street.

Photos by Lee Fenyves and Laina Adler.

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Art-O-Mat pieces are live!

Found out today that my Art-O-Mat pieces have been distributed to machines at the Flying M Coffee House in Boise, ID; Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, CA; The Whitney Museum of Art in NYC; and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, CA.

If you live in any of these areas go check out the vending machines and support Art-O-Mat! For more details on these locations and the machines housed there, visit www.artomat.org.

Black Friday sale at **leefenvisual**

Head on over to the *leefenvisual* store where every poster is $20. Get a jump on your holiday shopping. Buy a limited edition screen-print for the art collector in your life; they will certainly thank you for it.

Sale will last for 24 hours starting at 2:00pm PST.

http://tr.im/lfvposters

Oakland Show

If you find yourself in Oakland, CA, near Grand Ave., before the end of the year, take a detour to Jaujou Studio to see a selection of my photography hanging in this salon.  I’m currently showing the Doors of Montreal, Vehicular Style of California and a few Brazil Graffiti shots at Jaujou.  All are glossy prints mounted on quarter-inch black gator board, and available for sale.

Jaujou Studio
3351 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610-2738