Just a few words on the eve of your great adventure for which you have trained yourself and anticipated for so long — to let you know that we all share it with you, vicariously...
To M. Scott Carpenter (Letters of Note)
Linus Bill, 2007
Please Merry Me
Published by Nieves
Linus Bill, 2011
Portrait of the Artist
Silkscreen on paper
linusbill.com
nieves.ch
"Where are we going?" he asked as I helped him put on his shoes.
"Nowhere, "we're just walking."
Read "Small Victories" on Heading East (via Daddytypes)
A few years before I was born, my dad placed this classified ad to sell his car. My mom reports that "he actually paid $1400 for it, and when we sold it for $1600, we thought we made a good deal."
We visited Lucas and Kaori at Knee High's office located in a converted house in Shibuya as they were winding down for the new year holiday. They have the rare good fortune to possess a garden where they cultivate herbs and vegetables and relax under maple and persimmon trees where the noisy mejiro, a lovely white-eyed green bird, feasts off the last of the year's fruits. We were especially interested in listening to their experiences as partners running a small business in Japan.
We met up with Mike and Yuri at their shop in Kyobashi, a sober, no-funny business neighborhood wedged in the shadow of Ginza, Tokyo's commercial bright star. The shop is a fully-realized distillation of Postalco's elegantly utilitarian sensibility... The contrast in settings between shop and studio seems to highlight a good balance in their approach to work: their ability to unify what they want with what they do and to craft a lifestyle that works. It's nice.
Watch and read more about the husband-and-wife teams of Knee High Media and Postalco: here (Tramnesia)
Links: Knee High Media and Postalco
