Metallum Show
Two Man show alongside Kofie one (www.keepdrafting.com), Type and promo materials designed by myself,
Two Man show alongside Kofie one (www.keepdrafting.com), Type and promo materials designed by myself,
The Catalyst:
In the summer of 2007 a small, independent Japanese run print shop neighboring Kofie’s studio in Boyle Heights, California quietly closed its doors after 50 years of service. The owners were distributing everything they had acquired and were preparing for a long overdue retirement. The studio was full of unused paper, packaging materials, graphic design office supplies and a ton of old offset type drawers lined the dusty old shop. The owners were surprised anyone would be interested in what they felt were useless materials, but recognized Kofie’s sincerity in helping to 'lighten their load'. So he called a handful of artists that would benefit from this beautiful opportunity, Codak was one of them.
With an instant and immediate stockpile of materials to work with, ideas started to stir. The two creators were consistently brainstorming with ideas of exhibiting their work, and with the incorporation of these metal set type drawers a theme came pretty obvious.
Codak on Metallum:
The Oklahoma native received his “misinformation and miseducation” growing up in Portland, OR and now residing in the city of Los Angeles. With a family background in Architecture and Interior design Codak developed a fascination with “line work” its emotion and ambiguity. Codak’s first forms of public art were of distinct graffiti characters and traditional lettering. The artists style and technique has evolved from it’s beginning in Graffiti to encompass a hybrid of Design, Graffiti, and illustration. For Metallum, the artist will be displaying works showing a notion of color, composition and hints of his ancestral Native American roots. His collection will be composed of 20 pieces, from rustic metal panels to buffered polished sheets in pastille organic shapes which he enjoys leaving open to the viewers own interpretation.
In the summer of 2007 a small, independent Japanese run print shop neighboring Kofie’s studio in Boyle Heights, California quietly closed its doors after 50 years of service. The owners were distributing everything they had acquired and were preparing for a long overdue retirement. The studio was full of unused paper, packaging materials, graphic design office supplies and a ton of old offset type drawers lined the dusty old shop. The owners were surprised anyone would be interested in what they felt were useless materials, but recognized Kofie’s sincerity in helping to 'lighten their load'. So he called a handful of artists that would benefit from this beautiful opportunity, Codak was one of them.
With an instant and immediate stockpile of materials to work with, ideas started to stir. The two creators were consistently brainstorming with ideas of exhibiting their work, and with the incorporation of these metal set type drawers a theme came pretty obvious.
Codak on Metallum:
The Oklahoma native received his “misinformation and miseducation” growing up in Portland, OR and now residing in the city of Los Angeles. With a family background in Architecture and Interior design Codak developed a fascination with “line work” its emotion and ambiguity. Codak’s first forms of public art were of distinct graffiti characters and traditional lettering. The artists style and technique has evolved from it’s beginning in Graffiti to encompass a hybrid of Design, Graffiti, and illustration. For Metallum, the artist will be displaying works showing a notion of color, composition and hints of his ancestral Native American roots. His collection will be composed of 20 pieces, from rustic metal panels to buffered polished sheets in pastille organic shapes which he enjoys leaving open to the viewers own interpretation.
