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Now that Trade School is closed, Caroline, Rich and I are raising money to re-open in the fall. Come help us make classes for barter happen again in September! Our goal is to reach $9,000 by June 27.

I’m pleased to be part of a pop-up storefront in New York City, called Trade School. For the entire month of February, Trade School will hold nightly classes open to all students who want to sign up and barter with the teachers. Many classes are filling up quickly, so come take a look if you’re in the area!

My friend Hannah has finally put her work online for all to see. Boy is it lovely.

You can see a small series of my illustrations for a TIME end-of-year review of 2008’s top ten buzzwords. I think I should have used some more halftone.

My friend and fellow Cooper alum Caroline Woolard has just finished the designs for her beautiful Work Dress. You can see it on display right now at Providence Art Windows in Rhode Island. Caroline needed a small site to let visitors barter for the dress. How could I say no?

You can see (or maybe you already saw) my drawings on the most recent GOOD sheet, titled “Our Present Economy.” I illustrated the ASCII miniatures for Agnieszka Gasparska, of Kiss Me I’m Polish. Pick one up in your closest Starbucks… if they’re still there.

My boyfriend Rich Watts’ site is finally up. He spent a great deal of time on it so go and tell him how awesome it is!

Readers of I.D. magazine will see my illustrations for the “Suspicious Characters” article, a short piece on changing language in China. You can also see the June issue online.

You can now see icons I had made for Sahadeva Hammari’s t-shirt aggregator, Rumplo.com, which had just gone live about week ago.

You can soon find a couple of my wallpaper designs at Mandrake in Southern California. I’m part of a wallpaper show there called Ruffles and Rot, which is opening on January 5th. It’s put together by my fellow Cooper grad Robin Willis and his girlfriend Vera Neykov. Check out the invite.

My friend Julia Weist is coming out with a new novel, Sexy Librarian. She and Maayan Pearl were behind the Deaccession project, which exhibited along side my Male Places show a few months back.

I just finished an illustration for a Clay Shirky article about arrogance and humility in design on A Brief Message.

You can now see my monthly contributions to the AIGA/NY blog, called DESIGNY. I will be writing about design events happening around the city.