One Month

J. Namdev Hardisty Erin Hauber Jeremy Miranda Gene Pittman

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thirty

Thirty is about the everyday, people living their lives and the hi-jinx that ensue. Your life may not always be interesting to you but it is interesting to other people. It’s like gossip without the vicious rumors and the loss of reputation. I love looking at photos especially snapshots and that’s what Thirty is. Well, at least that’s what this issue is. Thirty will probably expand into other areas, I don’t want to restrict it.

At it’s core Thirty is a magazine about making stuff with the people I know. It was born out of a question I was asked in an interview, “Unlimited budget–What do you do?” My response was “Open my own studio, shoot whatever I want all day long. Have my friends come over and par-take. I would print my own magazine every month and it would be filled with whatever happened in the studio the previous month. It would be the first food fashion art lifestyle magazine that is 100% about me and my life.” (In retrospect this seems very Warhol-like.) My friend Jeremy (the same Jeremy in this issue) read this and thought it was a great idea. He proceeded over the next few months to ask me when the first issue was coming out. I began to think that maybe Thirty was a good idea and should see what happens. Although the idea of Thirty is less based on me doing the photographing, the first issue is about some great artists I know. Oh, and I did get my studio. Enjoy.....

Thanks, KIM

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thirty

Erin Hauber

J.NAMDEV HARDISTY

Jeremy Miranda

Gene Pittman

Erin Hauber www.cottageindustriesdesign.com•erin@cottageindustriesdesign.comA recent midwestern transplant to Los Angeles, Erin Hauber is a maker, writer and educator baffled by Southern California’s ever-present sunshine. She teaches typography and graphic design at the Otis College of Art De-sign, is a founding member of the design collective Dead Letter Bureau (www.deadletterbureau.com) and man-ages her humble studio, cottage industries, designing for artists, small businesses and cultural institutions.

Even though Erin thinks of herself as a graphic designer who happens to take photographs, photography plays an important role in her practice. The point-and-shoot digital camera is a device of discovery and exploration, her companion on daily walks. Many of the resulting photographs act as documents of color, shape, line, texture, life, experience or process.

Before relocating to Los Angeles, Erin studied graphic design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, then worked at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis and the Westport Arts Center in Connecticut. She also loves knitting, riding her bike and visiting the Hollywood farmers’ market.

J Namdev Hardisty www.jnamdevhardisty.com•jnh@the-mva.com“I am an unabashed procrastinator and it affects all areas of my life. Photography plays a huge role in my day-to-day work as a graphic designer. Whether finding an image that fits a concept or looking for documentation of a certain image or shooting for a project, I am engaging with photographic images constantly and have a need for a huge library of them. Yet, I rarely take pictures. My procrastination is so bad that I might see some beautiful typography and think “I need a picture of that” and instead of grabbing my phone and snapping off a photo, I then think “I’ll take one later”. Horrible. So, to be forced, or rather, to volunteer to shoot an image a day was a god-send. “I’ll take one later” became “Oh good, I’ve got my picture covered”, and while I may not be a shining example of dedication and quality, at least, procrastination was temporarily staved. Of course, there were days I couldn’t stop shooting and re-discovered how much I love the act of looking through a view-finder. My “thirty” became an index of my activities for a month, sometimes documentation, sometimes art and other times trying to find a picture at 11:30 at night.”

J. Namdev Hardisty is a designer and author. As a partner in The MVA, he designs and creates content for clients such as Analog Clothing, Corleone Records and Princeton Architectural Press, as well as publishing personal projects and artworks. His first book “New Skateboard Graphics”, a collection of contemporary skate-board art was published in 2009 by Mark Batty Publisher. He freaks out about Minneapolis’ old signs set in Helvetica Neue and is prone to quoting Dipset too often.

Jeremy Miranda www.jeremymiranda.com•jeremy.miranda@gmail.comJeremy Miranda received a BFA in painting from Mass college of art in 2004. He lives and works in Salem Massachusetts. To view current work visit jeremymiranda.com

Gene Pittman www.genepittman.com•genepittman@hotmail.comIf you would like to find out more about Gene, his phone number is 612-810-3879. He would love to have lunch or coffee with conversation.

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designed by Kimberlee Whaley for The MVA Studio•kimberlee.whaley@gmail.com

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