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This Public Works

Speaker Night #2
Friday August 21st 2009, 7pm to 10pm
Free!

Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago

Justin Fines – Demo
… is an artist and designer. DEMO, Fines’ freelance endeavour, was founded in 1997 in Detroit, MI. An award winning designer, Fines has worked in several design media, with projects ranging from record covers to corporate identity, tshirts, motion design and direction, skateboards, books and more. Recent projects include a line of snowboards for ROME, an artist series board for Zoo York, limited edition T-shirts for Nike, and a collaboration with Adidas and Chinatown Soccer Club. DEMO is headquartered on Rad Mountain at the Old American Can Factory, which is located in the beautiful Gowanus district of Brooklyn, NY.

Jason Teegarden-Downs – Delicious Design
… is one half of Delicious Design League: a two-man duo fighting out of Chicago, Illinois that specializes in graphic design and illustration for the music industry. Mostly recognized for their limited edition hand screen-printed music posters, they also create a plethora of anything that can and should be designed, logos and identity design, retail and promo packaging, magazine illustration, and so on. Their growing clientele includes Jane Magazine, Clothes Optional Vintage Clothing Boutique, John Brown Citrus Publishing (U.K.), Cilichili magazine (Czech Rep.), Metro Chicago, The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza, Live Nation, Firebelly Design, Draft FCB, Mozilla, The Royal Order, and many bands such as, Gomez, Ben Kweller, Pelican, Office, Alla, and on and on.

Chris Eichenseer – Someoddpilot
… is a photographer, designer and musician. He has spent most of his life attending band practice, and this not only taught him how to be an entrepreneur, but determined the nature of his work. Chris founded Someoddpilot in 1999 and since then has built an internationally recognized body of work, including branding and designing the Pitchfork website, photographing musical luminaries such as RJD2 and Steve Albini, designing dozens of record covers for Consumers Research, Chocolate Industries, and Mush, and designing industry websites for Drag City, Windish Agency, Fat Possum, Mad Decent and many more. Someoddpilot calls Chicago home with an office located in the crook of the Ravenswood industrial strip on the city’s North Side.