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Angie Wang + Mark Fox / Designers + Educators

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May, 1999: my rough sketches for Elon Musk’s new company at the time, https://t.co/4vu8ejTrud. (This was after Zip2 but before PayPal.) I ended up designing some temporary business cards for him—the last time I ever saw the bloke...[MF]
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Press checking different gold foils for “Trump: Lord of the Lies” earlier today. It was four years ago next month (August 26, 2016) that we press checked our “Trump 24K Gold-Plated” and “Trump 14K Gold-Plated” posters.

More gold foil tomorrow as well as registered embossing.

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🎉 We've reached our Kickstarter funding goal! Thank you all so much for your support! Stay tuned for updates as we take these posters to print!

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We met our Kickstarter funding goal of $6000 last night! Thank you all for your support! Help us reach our stretch goal of $6500 before Monday at 12:07 am and we will also produce a postcard of “Lord of the Lies” and include it with every order. https://t.co/BS3NrKbVti

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https://t.co/BS3NrKbVti “Trump: Lord of the Lies” now on Kickstarter! It builds on our 2016 poster “Trump 24K Gold-Plated” (right).

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Our Kickstarter is 69% funded with 11 days to go!
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Working collage for our “White Lies Matter” poster.
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Please help us produce and distribute this work before the November election.

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https://t.co/BS3NrKbVti Please help us bring this project to life and support or share our Kickstarter! We are currently 61% funded with only 13 days left.

Digital mockup of what our “White Lies Matter” diptych might look like when posted in the wild. Swear Smoke by @OHnoTypeCo

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@JoeBob_vdHam @OHnoTypeCo Yes, we know the history of the symbol—and that it is currently used by neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and white nationalists. Folks that Trump characterizes as “very fine people.”

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@OHnoTypeCo @JoeBob_vdHam In this context it simply evokes hate speech and nationalist demagoguery. Please take the time to read our Kickstarter.

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@underlineinc Now shipping to Canada!😁Thank you for sharing and for your support!

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https://t.co/BS3NrKbVti Our Kickstarter to produce 3 limited-edition anti-Trump propaganda posters is live! One poster features Swear Smoke by @OHnoTypeCo.

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Our Kickstarter to produce 3 limited-edition anti-Trump propaganda posters is live! https://t.co/BS3NrKbVti

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Learn the nuts and bolts of text typography! In this two-day Type West workshop @letterformarchive we will explore the foundational principles of setting continuous text.
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Students will start with the elemental textblock and build to the single-column a… https://t.co/HF36hFWdtN

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Found this last week: a photo of the second class I taught at CCAC, Graphic Design 3 in the spring of 1994. [🦊]
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Back row, l to r: Michael Reeves, Margie Blatchford, John Close, Mark Fox, Peter Metz.
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Middle row: Jenny Huey, Genes Sotto, Paige Stua… https://t.co/yG9nAY6RFb

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Our latest rejected trademark: a spider 🕷 with a face or mask as a secondary read. But that’s OK. It just means the accepted version will have to be even better! [🦊]
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We posted the inking last month on January 9.
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© 2020 Angie Wang + Mark Fox / Des… https://t.co/XeNGXwNEjR

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Old, spurious examples of our “Trump 24K Gold-Plated” poster are currently recirculating on social media. These memes have been investigated by Snopes and AFP Fact Check, among others. Read our original design intent for the poster: https://t.co/dCViuCbUh2

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新年快樂! 🎊🌝 Happy Lunar New Year! Today’s new moon ushers in “The Year of the Rat” in the Chinese zodiac cycle. 🧧🐭
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May your new year be pest-free! Both literally—and metaphorically. From a Japanese ad in a Taiwanese newspaper, early 20th century.
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My uncle, L.A. Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, greeting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his arrival in Los Angeles on January 15, 1961. Kenny was the only white politician in L.A. to publicly meet Dr. King that day. This was after the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott… https://t.co/gW3zvX5e1L

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I 🖤 increased clarity! The original version is on the left; the refined symbol is on the right.
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From my Advanced Identity class at CCA last spring. The symbol on the right was hand-inked. [🦊]
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A “B” monogram for the Bahrainwala Super Specialty Cli… https://t.co/U54bT6MIta

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I 🖤 the process of refinement! The original version is on the left; the refined symbol is on the right.
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From my Advanced Identity class at CCA last spring. Both symbols were hand-inked. [🦊]
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A personal symbol for Chang Hyun “Jono” Jun. The surname… https://t.co/EWYlmtXA0m