Check out a wide range of creative work – from fantastic hand lettering to poster design to artful web design work for places like Groupon – at the personal website of Chicago designer Will Miller. Will is part of the Firebelly Design family and one of my collaborators in last September’s group exhibition in Pilsen. He’s one of the artists showing at TYPEFORCE: The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars, in Bridgeport. Opening this Friday, February 26, 2010. Check it out if you’re a type fiend and in Chicago! More of my some of my favorite work by Will, after the jump: Read more

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[Chicago] “Change Today. Change Tomorrow.” A simple sentiment with a good heart – that was the theme offered up by Dawn Hancock for a group show at my gallery produced by her crew, the talented team at Firebelly Design in Humboldt Park in Chicago.Known for their award-winning web design and print work, the tight-knit collective of Firebelly’s artists, writers, designers and filmmakers have created work for the gallery as a way to promote change as participatory action. “We all want change because it helps us develop as people,” says Firebelly’s James Matthews. “It’s the everyday things – small changes for ourselves – that create positive change in the world around us.” Ranging from collage and graffiti to digital video and fabric arts, the show’s work will be sold to raise money for school arts programming in Pilsen, where the gallery and the burgeoning Chicago Arts District are located.

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More on the show.
Learn about Firebelly and its commitment to social justice.
Flickr album of an interactive installation asking gallery visitors, “What would YOU change?”
Flickr album of work shown at this exhibition, and some of the installation process.

[Chicago] – So cool to see the connections made out of the gallery (physical and online) and into the “real world.” Check out the murals being painted by Andrew Skwish, who exhibited at within(Reason) in August 2008, on the doors of the Nettelhorst School in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Check out the work he exhibited at the gallery show (including a few things remaining for sale).  Check out the rest of the beautiful surroundings of the Nettelhorst School, pretty much created by pupils or parents, or donated by community artists, in my Flickr gallery.