WHAT?

Freshjive and Reserve are having their semi annual warehouse sale this Friday and Saturday. Included will be limited editions, one offs, some girls stuff, and pieces from the previous GONZ! line.

WHEN?
2 days only. July 10 and 11. 8AM until 7PM.

WHERE?

At the Freshjive warehouse
1317 S. Olive St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Cash and card accepted

A free unreleased t shirt design for the first 24 people to enter on Friday, and the first 12 people on Saturday (large only).

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In the speedway of work, It was funny to meet Antoine (w/ his girlfriend Valerie) who was wearing this fabulous FJ "East L.A Horizon" tee...

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New for 2009, White with Purple/Gold print "Lords of Los Angeles" T in limited quantities.
Support the L.A Lakers team as they power through the Finals and bring back the parade we have been waiting 7 years for.

In Stores June 12, 2009

A never published graphic designed by renowned graphic and fontdesigner Michael Doret:




This graphic first used in a similar form for the cover of a Time magazine in the very early 1980s, was designed by renowned graphic designer Michael Doret for one of the first big articles in regards to the drug trade between Columbia and the United States:




Information about Michael DORET, graphic and fontdesigner:

A graduate of the Cooper Union, Michael opened his own design studio, first in New York City and later in Hollywood. A specialist in logos and letterforms, Michael's unique typographic vision blends elements of lettering, illustration and graphic design. The inspiration for his work has come from such diverse sources as matchbook covers, theater marquees, enamel signs, early and mid-20th century packaging, and various other American artifacts.

In 2006 he turned his energies towards font design, opening Alphabet Soup Type Founders with the release of two fonts - Orion MD and Metroscript and one font family - Powerstation. Simultaneous with the release of his fonts he published limited edition serigraph posters celebrating the new designs. In March of 2008 Alphabet Soup released Michael's 21st century update of the 20th century classic Bank Gothic. His Bank Gothic AS distinguishes itself by being the first version of this font (originally designed in 1930 by Morris Fuller Benton) to have a complete set of lowercase characters. Heretofore Bank Gothic had only been available in caps and shortcaps versions.

Michael is an eight time recipient of the NY Art Director's Club Silver Award. He has exhibited work in all the major industry shows and annuals: Society of Illustrators, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Type Directors Club (TDC), Communication Arts (CA) Annual and the CA Art Annual, Graphis, The Print Casebooks and the Print's Regional Design Annuals, Creativity, the ANDYs, the DESIs, and American Corporate Identity. His "Bedlam Ballroom" CD packaging project for the "Squirrel Nut Zippers" was nominated for a Grammy for Best Recording Package at the 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards. His serigraph for PowerStation was a Graphis Gold Award winner, and his poster for PowerStation was a winner in Print's Regional design Annual

Features on his work have appeared in national and international publications such as HOW, Step-by-Step Graphics, Art Direction, U&LC, IDEA (Japan) and Grafica (Brazil). In addition, features on his work have appeared in various books such as "Then Is Now", "A History of Graphic Design" and "Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated". He has lectured extensively in Universities and graphics organizations in many cities across the United States

His clients have included the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, Walt Disney Imagineering, Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Nike, Adidas, Time Magazine, TV Guide, United States Postal Service, Graphic Artists Guild, Conde Nast, Dow Jones, Playboy, Capitol Records, Columbia Records, Taschen Publishing and all the major US advertising agencies.






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Available this month are the first t shirt and cap designs based on particular classified Pentagon Black Operation patches. The patches are from a recent book, “I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me,” by Trevor Paglen. The patches refer to the hidden reality behind the Pentagon’s classified “black” budget which provides billions in dollars to supposed stealth government projects.



Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer. His work involves deliberately blurring the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. He has managed to document some of this hidden world in the form of patches he’s collected from touring bases, noting what some of the personnel wore, joining alumni associations, interviewing active and former team members, talking to base historians, and filing requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

Shown in his book for the first time, these patches reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by peculiar names ("Goat Suckers," "None of Your Fucking Business," "We Make Threats Not Promises") and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. Although the actual projects represented here (such as the notorious Area 51) are classified, these patches-which are worn by military units working on classified missions-are precisely photographed, strangely hinting at a world about which little is known.

He says what sparked his interest were the remarks made by then Vice President Dick Cheney’s after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. On “Meet the Press” Cheney said the nation would engage its “dark side” to find the attackers and justice. “We’ve got to spend time in the shadows,” Mr. Cheney said. “It’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.”

Inspired by Cheney’s remarks and memories of his childhood when his military family traveled the globe to bases often involved in secret missions, Trevor set off to map the secret world and document its expansion, which resulted in a Ph.D. thesis and various books.

The classified budget of the Defense Department nearly doubled during the Bush administration to 32 billion, which is more than the combine budgets of the Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The items and book are available as well as at select Freshjive retailers worldwide...

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Last saturday, my friend "2Che" came to help me at the store with his nice FJ Mick Haggerty "Barbwires" special edition tee...

 

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DFWU T SHIRT

Don't ever F*** with Freshjive or D.Fish.

Out now at Reserve in Los Angeles and other fine retailers.

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Down the Saint Honoré street, I saw Nico (a.k.a "Le Kouek") with his fabulous FJ "Chocolate Cities" tee.


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