Last week's post on the NYC lampshade showed not-quite-finished work, but work that had been refined and recreated in a long process of sketching and tracing while exploring typography and legibility. I wanted to share the process tracings, to show the different aesthetic directions driven by handwriting choices. It felt freeing to draw and explore... Continue Reading →
Over the past few years I have been creating wooden boxes that can be stacked together to form shelves, with the intent that any object stored on this shelf could be transported by the disassembled boxes. Initially I used finished grade 1x8 and 1x2 poplar wood and countersunk screws to create boxes approximately 15"Lx15"Wx23"H. I... Continue Reading →
On Teh Road has begun a new life, finding a temporary home with a friend who has yet to read the book. I'll find out from him if the medium is conducive to reading the prose, and if the wire hanger and string hold up over time. Hopefully it is as close to the original... Continue Reading →
Back on April 1st I wrote about my efforts to transcribe the book On The Road, specifically the 2007 version of the unedited first draft, all 125,00 words of it on to a 50 yard roll of trace paper via an electric typewriter. The typewriter is falling apart, but the scroll is finished. more to... Continue Reading →
A few very rough sketches and screen shots of a set of stairs based on equilateral triangles and Carlo Scarpa's concrete stair at the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona.
Adam Achrati 