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Mike Perry works in Brooklyn, NY. Making books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawings, paintings, illustrations and teaching whenever possible. His first book titled Hand Job published by Princeton Architectural Press hit the book shelves in 2006. “Mike Perry’s compendium of hand-drawn type points to the continued relevance of the human touch in modern communication.” —American Craft, October/November 2007. His second book titled Over & Over hits shelves early this fall. He is currently working on two new books. In 2007 he started a magazine called Untitled, that explores his current interests. The thrid issue is out now. He has worked with clients from New York Times Magazine, Dwell Magazine, Microsoft Zune, Urban Outfitters, eMusic, and Zoo York. In 2004 he was chosen as one of Step Magazines 30 under 30, in 2007 as a groundbreaking illustrator by Computer Arts Projects Magazine, and 2008 he received Print Magazines New Visual Artist award, and was chosen by the Art Directors Club as one of this years Young Guns (6). Doodling away night and day, Perry creates new typefaces and sundry graphics that inevitably evolve into his new work, exercising the great belief that the generating of piles is the sincerest form of creative process. His work has been seen around the world including a recent solo show in London titled "The Place between Time and Space."
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PEOPLE AND THINGS I BELIEVE IN
UNTITLED MAGAZINE 002
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ANTHONY WALLACE, LUKE RAMSEY, BRIGITTE SIRE, ROBIN CAMERON, NOAH SHELDON, DAMIEN CORELL, BEN FREDRICKSON, MILAN ZRNIC, JEREMY WILLIAMS, JOSH CLANCY, THEO MORRISON, WYETH HANSEN, ANNA WOLF, AND MIKE PERRY
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Not Everyone Fits the Mold
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Patterns Found in Space
Selected work available for sale. Email to inquire.
The Patterns Found in Space
An Exhibition by Mike Perry
March 7th - April 8th 2009
Opening Reception
Saturday March 7th, 6:30 - 10pm
437 E 9th St
(9th street btwn. Ave. A & 1st Ave)
New York, NY 10009
Tel: (212) 674-GRNY
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
All it takes is an iron to spruce up your warm-wea
By BECKY SHER
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
What if we told you that you could have a wardrobe full of really cool, really original, really cheap T-shirts without depleting your college savings? You'd totally jump on it, right? Well, here's the scoop: First, grab a bunch of plain tees - check stores like Target, or even craft stores like Michael's, which stock tons of cheap tees in lots of solid colors. Then run, don't walk, to the bookstore (or hit amazon.com) to buy "Iron Me On," by Mike Perry (Chronicle Books, $12.95), a book of dozens of cool fabric transfers that you can use to personalize your shirts (or totebags or shorts or almost anything else made of fabric). Perry's artwork is awesome - lots of cool colors and prints - so after a few minutes with an iron, your shirts will look have the look of designer duds. The process is simple, though it can take some practice to get it just right. (Tip: Make sure the iron is really, really hot for best results.) But once you've mastered it, you can spruce up your closet in an afternoon. Or set up a production line and get some friends together for a T-shirt party. What a fashionable (and thrifty) way to welcome warmer weather.
M&J A Pile Zine
Zine of drawings from exhibition with Jim Stoten
16 Page Black White & Color
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Before Night Falls
Photographer: Anna Wolf
Art Direction: Mike Perry
Style: Nicole Olson
Groomer: Caroline Prince
Models: Salieu Jalloh and Shaun Haugh at Red NYC, Nile Bowie at Q Management.
Design by the Book
Design*Sponge and the New York Public Library
From Design*Sponge
…i’m so thrilled to post the third episode of design by the book today! after a holiday break the artists are back in their studios working and in this episode we check in on them to see what they’ve done so far and how they hope things will finish up. our final video with the artists’ final projects will be up in a few weeks, but we’ll be debuting it live at the new york public library at our design by the book party! stay tuned for all the details soon- it will be open to anyone who’d like to come and we’ll have some great resources there for everyone to take advantage of. in the meantime, i hope you’ll enjoy the 3rd installment of design by the book. also, if you missed the first two episodes, they’re below- just click ‘play’.
[ps: there were crazy gale-force winds blowing in the last shot, sorry for looking like a total dunce with hair in my eyes and mouth. duh grace, should have brought a hat]
From Design*Sponge
…after some uploading drama yesterday the second episode of design by the book is up and ready to go! in this video the artists visit the nypl for the first time as they look through the collection to find inspiration. there’s also a short interview with isaac mizrahi in the beginning so click “play” above to watch the full episode. we’ll return before the holiday break with the third episode and wrap things up in the new year with our final videos!click here to watch the first episode of design by the book if you missed it.
ps: in this episode you’ll meet jessica pigza, our nypl reference librarian. jessica is also our guest blogger at d*s this week- click here to check out her posts! and, as always, the music in our vidoes (which i’m obsessed with) is by the clear tigers.
From Design*Sponge
…today i am thrilled and so proud to debut the first episode of design by the book- a collaboration between design*sponge and the new york public library. for the past few months i’ve been working with a fantastic team at the library to create a series that would highlight the amazing local design talent in nyc as well as the incredible creative resources the new york public library has to offer.
together we invited five brooklyn-based artists to come to the library, become inspired by its collections and have us film their entire creative process from the beginning to the final finished product, whatever that may be. in this episode we’re introducing the project and our designers: rebecca kutys of moontree press, john pomp of john pomp glass, julia rothman, mike perry and lorena barrezueta.
this has been an absolute joy to film so far and i can’t wait to see what the artists find in the library and end up creating throughout this process. please stay tuned for the next episode (date TBA) where we’ll follow the artists as they rummage through the library to find resources that inspire them. we’ll also meet with isaac mizrahi in the next episode and talk with him about inspiration and the creative process! thank you to all of the artists who are generously donating their time for this project and thank you to james murdock, amy azzarito, and jessica pigza at the nypl for making this series the highlight of my year. (and thanks to the clear tigers for the awesome music!)
[click here to check out the video on itunesU. click here to check it out on the nypl's site and here to check it out on youtube]
Untitled Magazine 003
16 pages • 6.25" x 9.5" • 4 color off-set • Edition of 2000
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNA WOLF
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HOLIDAY ZINE 2008
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Untitled - 002
The Swim Suit Edition
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M+J California
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wintern podcast: mike perry
Interview with Mike Perry
Design*Sponge: What made you want to become a graphic designer?
Mike Perry: I didn’t really go into college thinking I wanted to be a graphic designer. I initially went in to study painting, got into the program and just wasn’t really excited about how I was pushing myself with the work. My school forced a design class on everybody, to sort of expose us to all the different subjects of design and the career opportunities. It was a really good course, and I was excited by the possibilities that design offered to me, which I looked at as the ability to make anything as opposed to the painting program where I felt like I could only make paintings. Once those two things came together I just kind of clicked in, it made sense, and I haven’t looked back since.
DS: How did you start out?
MP: I needed a job, and the thing about making sort of untraditional graphic design in college, and living in a town that didn’t really support people who are doing design/art crossbreeds; I mean there’s definitely places in Minneapolis that have those work environments, but they’re far and few between; and those were the coveted jobs. So when I graduated, I would go to interviews and people would be like “What are you showing me? We can’t hire you. I mean, it’s cool and all, but this isn’t a bank logo, we can’t show this stuff to our clients. We need traditional work.” And that was pretty had to hear after school, especially when you’re in school and you feel really supported and excited about what you’re doing. You get put out in the world and you’re devastated by that harsh reality.
There’s this thing in Minneapolis called the Walker Internship and I applied for that. I was in the phone book calling everyone, looking for jobs. Then a group of friends and I who were all unemployed decided to pull our unemployment efforts together and started a design studio. Which obviously didn’t work because it was six of us hanging out without jobs instead of just one of us. And the whole time I’m applying to jobs and in my rejection letter for the Walker Internship this one guy told me to get in contact with one of the previous interns who worked at Urban Outfitters. I had this one teacher who had worked at Urban and she called them up and said that I was going to send my portfolio, sent it off, didn’t hear anything for four months. Then I got a phone call one day and I was in the door. It was a long treacherous process.
DS: What designers or websites do you look to for inspiration?
MP: Recently I’ve been thinking about how when I listen to music, I wish that my work looked like the way their music sounds. It’s a hard thing to visualize but there’s some things about their work that I really try to have come across in my own.
I’m also really interested in science and the abstract ideas that come from that. My brother is a Bio-medical engineer and I recently realized that we kind of do the same thing. We’re both on the search to discover things. There’s a WNYC show called Radio Lab and they are very good at visually describing the science world. The way they describe these things is really inspiring to me because the pictures they create in my head really inspire me.
DS: What gave you the idea to create Hand Job and Over & Over and how did you go about having them published?
MP: Hand Job came out of the desire just to make a book, which is something I’ve always wanted to do. I had a bunch of ideas floating around in my head and went to my bookshelves and checked out all the books I like. I emailed one of the editors at Princeton Architectural Press, introduced myself, sent some of my work, told her the ideas I had and she somehow wrote me back. I pitched four basic ideas and in those four ideas a book about hand drawn typography was in there and they just jumped on it. It was definitely an instance of right time right place.
DS: What are you working on now?
MP: I actually had a meeting with Princeton last week and proposed three new book ideas and they liked all of them. I’m working on an illustration for Computer Arts today which is a UK magazine, and the next two issues of my magazine. I’m also working with d*s for a projects for the New York Public Library.
DS: What advice do you have for young graphic designers who are looking to start their own business?
MP: Keep your overhead low, and hustle. It kind of helps, maybe to have a job first for a little while. There’s so much to learn from those environments, things you may not even know that you need to learn. Work on your telephone skills, and have a website. People need to see your work and know that you exist. You have to change the way you think about money. You need to know about contracts and, you know, all those things they don’t really teach you in school.
DS: When you’re not using hand-drawn type, what’s your default font?
MP: My default is Locator by ProcessTypeFoundry.com
DS: As a freelance artist and business owner, how do you market yourself?
MP: The Internet is the most important thing, I’ve had a website for about seven years, so that really helps. That means I have seven years of people looking at it and book-marking pieces, and I think that has a huge impact on success. The books going out into the world have been huge. They’ve been really helpful, in a way I hadn’t really anticipated. And then just, emailing people, keeping in contact. The best thing you can do is constantly remind people you exist.
DS: Where do you see your work going in the future?
MP: Just more. I definitely want to do larger scale projects. I want to see what that’s all about. I also really want to do interiors. I like the challenge that would come from doing a whole space, it sounds really exciting. More books, I have a running joke that I want to make so many books in five years that I can sit on them like a chair. Just to keep making stuff, that’s the plan.
TINLARK GALLERY SHOW
INSPIRED SHOW - TINLARK GALLERY
OPEN 1/17/2009 - 2/21/2009
INSPIRED, a groups show curated by 8 of America's best art and design bloggers. Artists include Martha Rich, Ivy Jacobsen, Marcie Paper, Kime Buzzelli, Yu-i Chan, Souther Salazar, Amy Huddleston, Rachel Papo, Anne M. Hall, Tanya Aguiñiga, Mike Perry, Henrike Stahl, and other surprises
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A Catalog of Hand Drawn Type
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...Of the 55 practitioners of hand-drawn typography represented here -- each given between two and six pages to show his or her stuff -- none creates work that is remotely ordinary. -- Metropolis, September 2007
...chock-full of inspiration for designers an eye candy for those who just dress like them...Hand Job is about the next generation of superstars, from frighteningly talented students to rising taste makers Deanne Cheuk and Kevin Lyons. It's hours of fun. -- Time Out Chicago, December 3, 2007
...it's uplifting to experience a graphic design book that focuses on hand-drawn typography...vibrant and alive...hip without being pretentious--a true look at an underappreciated art form. This is the perfect book for anyone who appreciated graphic design and values sincere uniqueness. -- BrandChannel.com, October 2007
If, like many of us, you're tired of seeing one computer-generated graphic after another, Hand Job might provide a refreshing change. The book is a collection of hand-drawn type from 55 of today's most-talented hand typographers. -- Step Inside Design, November 2007
Form Magazine
Form Magazine #223 - November/December 2008
The Man with the Pen
Text: Katharina Altemeier Katharina.Altemeier@form.de
Designs by Mike Perry from Brooklyn, bear his signature in the true sense of the word. Whenever possible, the 27-year-old graphic designer does without a computer and draws logos and illustrations by pencil and paintbrush. Mike Perry believes in the charm of handmade design. His second book on the subject has just been published: In “Over & Over” Perry has brought together the like-minded who – like himself – design their works by hand. A portrait.
To say you are designer out of passion sounds inflated, clichéd, and pretty stereotype. But when Mike Perry explains why he became a graphic designer it sounds likable and convincing – not least of all because of his youthful freshness. “Some people do things because they can, not because they have to,” he says. “I definitely have a ‘have to’ thing going on”, says Perry about himself. The 27-year-old works primarily as an illustrator for various fashion, music and lifestyle magazines but is also a typographer and art director. After spending a few years in his early 20s in the creative department of the US fashion chain Urban Outfitters in Philadelphia, Perry has been self-employed with his own studio in Brooklyn, New York for two years now. Here, among other things, he designed logos for the architecture magazine “Dwell” and for The School at Columbia which is part of Columbia University. He also designs CD covers, typography for Brooklyn Industry T-shirts, illustrates fashion spreads for the Style section of the “New York Times” and publishes his own magazine “Untitled.”
Following “Hand Job,” his second book “Over & Over” has now been published by Princeton Architectural Press. Perry curated both books, meaning he chose all the projects presented in them. While “Hand Job” introduces hand drawn typography by various graphic designers, “Over & Over” has accumulated pattern designs by more than 50 designers, the large majority of whom Mike Perry knows personally. There is a reason why the books are devoted to designing by hand, and this is because Perry himself also draws, paints or prints logos, fonts and illustrations without resorting to digital tools wherever possible. “For me, things designed by hand always have something magic about them because you can recognize the person behind them,” says Perry. “When everyone draws the same object the results are completely different. The way someone draws a line or designs an image speaks volumes and also delivers, so to speak, an interpretation of the object which could never be created digitally.” The fact that he draws and paints by hand whenever he can, contributes considerably to the authentic look of his design. They are perfectly imperfect, in part appear childishly naive, are very detailed, playful and often extremely humorous, like Perry himself.
One of the reasons the graphic designer is so successful with his self-made aesthetics is certainly the fact that this particular style has been trendy for some time now. Back in 2003, for example, Perry drew various logos for Urban Outfitters, thereby lending the hip company his innovative signature for two years.
“I am aware that I play a part in setting new trends, which are then copied dozens of times. But that is not what it is about, and I will continue working this way even when it is no longer ‘in’,” says Perry. The handmade movement is repeatedly said to be a logical countermovement to the digital aesthetics of 1990s freehand and vector graphics. In principle Perry agrees with this, but at the same time stresses that he has no intention of renouncing working with computers. “Even though I do as much as possible by hand I would still not like to be without the indispensable tool of a computer,” says Perry, who incidentally would really like to design a pair of sneakers, or more precisely a pair of sneakers for the cult-status Van brand. In fact in future he would like to be more involved in product design in general. And then we come to a rather bizarre-sounding dream which Mike Perry explains. It is about the American songwriter Bill Callahan, also known as Smog, and his album “A River ain’t too much to love”. This is Perry’s favorite album as, with simple means, it tells a story which sets off an amazing number of images in his mind. “I have thought quite seriously about going to a graduate school and holding a seminar one day that deals solely with visualizing this album,” says Perry laughing. Sounds exciting, and when Mike Perry says something like this one can firmly believe that his dream is going to become reality.