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Us
Strength
Parallel
Earth
Together
Light
Sun
Truth
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Forest is the Brooklyn, New York based studio of Joel Speasmaker and pursues graphic design in the form of art direction, editions & publishing, branding, illustration, web design & development, various curatorial projects, and other stuff.
Joel founded and published The Drama magazine in 2000, while curating related exhibitions and running The Drama Store until 2007. He has served as art director for Anthem magazine and was comics editor for Swindle. Currently he is exhibiting personal work and self-publishing The Small Book series, while continuing to oversee all matters of the design practice.
studio, 2011
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LECTURES & EVENTS
Ligature 20
Guest, University of Florida
Islands in L.A.
Guest, Poketo
Simple Pleasures
Curator, Subliminal Projects
Row Boats Home
Curator, ODU Gallery
A to Z
Curator, Various
PUBLICATIONS
The Hand of the
Graphic Designer
Moleskin, 2011
Logology 2
Victionary, 2011
Pulled: A Catalog
of Screenprinting
Princeton Architectural Press, 2011
Little Book of Letterpress
Chronicle Books, 2010
1000 Ideas by 100
Graphic Designers
Rockport Publishers, 2009
Logology
Victionary, 2007
SELECTED PRESS
idN magazine
v18n6, 2012
Creative Quarterly
Issue 20, 2010
Good magazine
Issue 21, 2010
Mule magazine
Issue 3, 2006
Flaunt
Issue 69, 2005
XLR8R
Issue 90, 2005