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Re: A reflection on your presentation for The Employee

Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: mark <████████████████████> Cc: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ >, Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >, Louis Dollé <█████████████████████ >, Miranda Bambace <███████████████████████ >

Hi Mark, Farah, Louis, House9ers, Lauren.
I just wanted to reply to acknowledge receipt of your email, and to wish you all a good two week break.
I am going to take some time to think about the options re: font and (possible) colour. I feel also sad about the silver, because I do think it is sexy, but the readership of the books is really quite similar, and it would be a shame if the design’s similarity created a sense that our project is derivative of the other publication.
I think the idea of the rough draft, or the proof, or the working-draft are important, visually, as for example the use of the file name instead of the title, and I wonder if there is a colour or aesthetic of the draft that brings us some further ideas. Just some more thoughts…
Anyways, we will answer the questions in this email more thoroughly soon. Sending you patience and resilience to get through the stress.
Hugs,
Josh

mark <████████████████████>

Hi!


House9 is now closed for a short summer holiday. We will be back at our computers the morning of Monday, July 15, 2024. In case of emergency, you can contact (please keep me in CC).


Bonjour !


House9 est maintenant fermé pour de courtes vacances d'été. Nous serons de retour à nos postes de travail le lundi 15 juillet 2024 au matin. En cas d'urgence, vous pouvez contacter (svp garder mon email en CC).



For my staycation, I will be ignoring my phone and reading books instead. Some of the books on my reading list include... Pour mes vacances, je vais ignorer mon téléphone et lire des livres à la place. Voici quelques-uns des livres qui figurent sur ma liste de lecture...


  • Conversations with Birds (Priyanka Kumar) 

  • Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care (The Promiscuous Care Study Group)

  • Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You (Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul) 

  • The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (Edwidge Danticat)

  • The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss (Mary-Frances O’Connor) 

  • The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy (Julia Cooper)

  • The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone (Juli Berwald)


What are you reading this summer? Que lisez-vous cet été ?





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mark
Studio + Project Coordinator 
Coordonnateur de projet + studio
he/him // il/lui

Tio'tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal 
Timezone: EST • GMT/UTC−4

Farah Khan <█████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: mark <████████████████████>, Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >, Louis Dollé <█████████████████████ >, Miranda Bambace <███████████████████████ >

Thanks Josh! You (and Lauren) always give such thoughtful feedback <3

We're off this and next week as you know, so I'll let this idea of "rough draft"/"work in progress" percolate in terms of colour use. 

Receiving and resharing patience and resilience... don't we all need it now more than ever as we descend into authoritarian hellscapes. 
xox



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Farah Khan
Principal and Creative Director
Fondatrice et directrice de création
she / her / hers

House9 Design
Tio'tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal 
Quebec ███ ███


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