Pasadena Museum of California Art

Letter ‘X’ Poster

Design of a screen-printed poster for PSY/OPS Type Foundry’s submission by invitation to participate in the Getting Upper exhibit curated by Amos Klausner. The prints were then available for sale.

From the show:

Inspired by language-based experimentation and how it can unlock new avenues of cultural expression, Getting Upper curator Amos Klausner charged twenty-six designers with re-imagining a letter from the alphabet, using the illegibility and deconstructive nature of graffiti as their starting point. If “getting up” describes the recognition that a graffiti artist seeks through proliferate tagging, “getting upper” is the term that Klausner uses to suggest breaking free from history, from the global marketing culture that long-ago borrowed the best of the graffiti scene, and from legibility itself. The result is an alphabet that reconsiders our collective understanding of what a letter can be and how it functions to create language and meaning.

Each of the 26 letters has been published as a limited edition run of 100 silk-screened (by Bloom Press) posters and will be available for sale at the museum store and online.

With PSY/OPS Type Foundry