04.03.25
Hi everyone,
We’ve got some more readers this time after our party two weeks ago :)
It was so great to see so many of you; thank you so much for your support. It really means a lot to the both of us. We loved seeing so many familiar faces and catching up IRL.
The night was a joint celebration — of the release of our studio website (and thus, official debut into the world) as well as a gallery opening of our work with KSW. We made posters of some of the design elements from their identity — typography, label designs, logo marks, even printing every page of the style guide. It’s their 5-year anniversary, so it seems fitting to adorn their walls with the work we’ve accomplished together over these past five years. They’re celebrating this weekend at the taproom with music, pop-up food vendors, and sake (of course), so be sure to swing by.
🧢 merch
Speaking of the party, we raffled off some hats… with five winners! Afterward, we realized we did not make enough hats for everyone who wanted one. We’re rectifying this by having some more made — they should be coming through in the next month or so. Reach out to me or Ryan if you’re interested in one! It adds up pretty quickly, so we’d just ask for $20 to help cover part of the cost.
📂 a tab that’s open
Ryan
Shiva Nallaperumal’s path to Delegate (via Commercial Type) — I’m a long-time fan of Shiva’s. I went to his and Juhi’s recent talk at Pentagram’s after-hours, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing their thinking from behind the scenes. This interview with Caren Litherland takes a deeper dive into Shiva’s background and perspective. He’s one of the few designers who can effortlessly flex between expressiveness and rigidity, but there’s always an underlying rationale behind his work.
Michelle
A million tabs about Mexico City & Oaxaca. We’re planning a trip there in May, so if anyone has any recommendations please send them to us!
📽️ a movie we’d recommend
This past weekend I saw Secret Mall Apartment at the IFC Center. It’s a documentary by Jeremy Workman about a group of eight artists who literally built a secret apartment in the Providence Place mall in Rhode Island and successfully lived there for four years. Ryan and I both lived in Providence only a few years after this took place, so it was a super nostalgic watch. It was also inspiring as a feat of the human spirit — to create in unexpected places and conditions, merge art into everyday life, and maintain childlike openness in the face of capitalistic structures. It’s still showing in theaters but not streamable anywhere so take yourselves to the movies :)
🎵 try on our headphones
Ryan
Michelle
Til next time!
— M