Paul Soulellis
@soulellis
Artist-publisher-writer. Founding member/organizer Queer.Archive.Work. Faculty RISD Graphic Design. he/him. @soulellis everywhere. Providence, RI
it’s like taking a rotting trump steak out of the garbage and wiping it off with a 1997 think different press release and putting it out there like it’s gonna generate 100 billion
is this the first product from the national design studio? trying to track how gebbia’s “apple store experience” design ethos gets eaten up by techno-fascism and regurgitated into 80s–90s-style ad campaign trash
Looking at these ridiculous images that the US Dept of Labor is posting over on X and questioning how to teach graphic design anymore
this administration is about breaking things apart as a domination strategy, dismantling to put loyalists in place, and these sites are no exception. gebbia is the new musk and it smells like failure, not progress, like the cheap gold trimmings in the oval office
honestly, of all the ways this kind of design propaganda could’ve gone, “going bigger than President Nixon” was not on my list
Come!Unity Press in the documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite / recently learned that she printed her famous questionnaire there, also found this photo of her printing with Mercure in a 1978 issue of Off Our Backs
who designs this? ofc there’s the obvious nazi fraktur connections, but I think it’s more likely aiming for this vibe
more from the Come!Unity archive at NYU from when I visited in december; they have hundreds of items that were printed there
and I think we're changing the title, from Queer Typographies to Survival by Sharing, which comes from Come!Unity Press (NYC 1972–80). I did some digging recently, difficult to find much about them, but after searching their name for years now, tried searching their phone #, and this got me further
more about Katrina en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina... including Ted Kerr’s 2020 piece on early HIV/AIDS media histories, which is how I learned about her www.thebody.com/article/new-...
the AIDS Quilt panel for educator and activist Katrina Haslip; it looks like there’s an actual braid of hair sewn into the quilt, above the “n” in Katrina, and the letterforms seem to be adorned with hair, too
When Palantir had DEI. since scrubbed from their site. can’t believe these are real but it seems they are.
Next Friday in NYC! so excited to join Nat Pyper and the legenday Alan Bell for a conversation and font launch at O-R-G www.o-r-g.com/shop/a-queer...
US printers issued a boycott against German-made fascist typography in 1939 (found at www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2014/06/boyc...)
Was researching Instrument Serif, used at White House .gov (but designed for Instrument design agency), and realized that the default text used by Google Fonts is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights fonts.google.com/specimen/Ins...
looking at the design and typography of Project 2025: Chronicle and Gotham
just adding Queer.Archive.Work, our own tiny volunteer-run collective, to the very long list of arts orgs de-funded by the NEA—would have been our first NEA grant, our largest ever, & would have created a new job here in RI. I love who we are & we’ll continue to support each other no matter what <3
final paragraph: “the world view which underlies typing will not survive the transition” flusserstudies.net/sites/www.fl...
Am I the last to know that Flusser wrote an unpublished essay “On Typography”—and that it’s all about typing?
Here’s the full list of 2025 NEA grantees in Rhode Island. I’d like to know what the total loss is, out of the $300k. Who else had funding withdrawn besides us (QAW)? What will the state do to compensate for such a loss in the arts in our tiny community?