@markaddisonsmith
Queer Typographer, Designer, Educator, Speaker, Archivist, Cat Dad
CURRENT EXHIBITION, Detroit: College for Creative Studies, Valade Family Gallery
CURRENT EXHIBITION, Detroit: College for Creative Studies, Valade Family Gallery
Mark Addison Smith is a queer artist whose design specialization is typographic storytelling: allowing illustrative text to convey a visual narrative through printed matter, artist's books, and site installations.
Mark Addison Smith | SAIC
Mark Addison Smith | SAIC
2023 Design Incubation Award: Scholarship + Creative Practice
2023 Design Incubation Award: Scholarship + Creative Practice
In a daily ritual since 2008, exact-dialogue fragments of overheard conversations are made into illustrated quotes
Queerty | This gay artist draws what he (secretly) hears you say on the streets
Queerty | This gay artist draws what he (secretly) hears you say on the streets
A testament to the power of words...
Purchase Book: The Streets Are Very Quiet
Purchase Book: The Streets Are Very Quiet
You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years exhibition at McMaster Gallery
You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years exhibition at McMaster Gallery
You Look Like The Right Type: Pandemic Drawings
You Look Like The Right Type: Pandemic Drawings
PRINT Magazine | The Daily Heller: Typographic Eavesdropping
PRINT Magazine | The Daily Heller: Typographic Eavesdropping
PRINT Magazine | The Daily Heller: Drawing To Manage Stress
PRINT Magazine | The Daily Heller: Drawing To Manage Stress
Hyperallergic | A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
Hyperallergic | A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Illinois, Maine, Oregon, and New York.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | Years Yet Yesterday
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | Years Yet Yesterday
In celebration of World Pride, June Object of the Day posts highlight LGBTQ+ designers and design in the collection. Mark Addison Smith is a notable artist’s book designer who specializes in typographic storytelling. He uses illustrative text to create a visual narrative through print, artists’ books, and site installations. For over 10 years, Mark Addison
Visual AIDS | Hopefully viewers consider then versus now…
Visual AIDS | Hopefully viewers consider then versus now…
Nelson Santos interviews Mark Addison Smith about his art, inspired by the 10 year anniversary of Larry Kramer's speech "The Tragedy of Today's Gays"
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Queer designer, SAIC Prof, paper enthusiast, collector, cat dad, husband, and eavesdropper behind You Look Like The Right Type, a 16-year archive of daily, overheard-conversation drawings. Opinions mine. linktr.ee/markaddisonsmith
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