How hop to get! My friend. My esteemed colleague and partner in interwobbling, Design Professor Erik Brandt, is having so many well-deserved honors in these new days! Today I am happy to pass on the word of his invitation to speak and workshop at an old school and blossoming location of his, Virginia Commonwealth University. Please learn more below, and if you are in the area, it would be a fantastic opportunity for you to go see him speak words to the world. Ask him questions about broken plugins on wordpress.

Read this basic re-creation of the original set of information below.

Above: Event poster by John Malinoski, 2010. Photo: John Dixon, 1997. The rabbit lives! El Conejo, a conglomerate character that first rose back in 1997, the spirit of which still vibrates awkwardly here, and especially here. A special thanks to my dear friend and mentor, John Malinoski, for making this poster.

I am humbled and delighted to announce that I have been invited back to my beloved Virginia Commonwealth University as part of the Objects+Methods Lecture series.

I am grateful that the visit will also include an exhibition of my work and a workshop with Rob Carter’s typography students. I am hopeful to see old friends and make new ones. A thousand thanks to my great friends and mentors, Mary McLaughlin and John Demao for their kind invitation. ¡Abrazos!

My friends and students from the past twelve years will remember how often I have talked about the pivotal time in my life when I was a MFA candidate at VCU. The song below, often played on Geotypografika to mark moments of special joy, was taught to me on the rocks of the James River, fishing with my great teacher, Akira Ouchi.

Honto ni, we were long compass and short compass, creating endlessly irregular pathways of searching and questions. We were together, in old school days, and we, please believe me, sing this song still today.

Avanti popolo alla riscossa,
bandiera rossa, bandiera rossa!
Avanti popolo alla riscossa,
bandiera rossa trionferá!

The exhibition will open Friday, March 5 at 6PM (1509 Main St., Richmond, VA), and the lecture will be on Monday, March 8 at 4:30PM at the Grace Street Theater.
Servus, Freunde!

Above: El Conejo (Ol’ Knobby Knees), May Day, 1997. Photo: John Dixon.

VIVE le dessin graphique! El Conejo VIVE! ¡ABRAZOS a todos!

Hasenfuss Videography: Urbi et Orbi (2002), North Lincoln Hills by Way of Ulan Bator, Mongolia (2003, with Elisabeth Workman); and finally, Kölner Klonnen Kollone (2003).

When the learner returns to represent as the master, he has lessons to teach the new learners. He also returns to continue to learn. This is the true nature of the force, and I vouch for El Conejo in saying he is a true Jedi Master.

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