This is "some news" and announcements, maybe

My new “WHAT IS THIS?” Joy Division parody tee has been a surprise hit, going from “tumblr photoshop joke” to “actual item” in just a few days. It’s been featured on Four Pins, Laughing Squid, Nerdcore, and a slew of other blogs, not to mention shout-outs from Peter Saville (the original album cover designer) and others in the design & music communities. I’m flattered, excited, and laughing. Thanks everyone! Pre-order here.

Brooklyn Zine Fest was a blast, I met a ton of people, and sold out of the first run of my latest zine, HOME-BREW #3, but rest assured there are more copies, and you can get one for yourself here. The zine also had it’s “online debut” on Thought Catalog, which was really exciting too.

Finally, I’ll be a part of RAW Brooklyn’s June showcase next month, with an installation entitled “IT’S ALL JUST PAPER.” The event is Wednesday, June 19th at 74 Wythe in Brooklyn. Tickets are $15 each and will come with a special show package from me the night of the event!

The Brooklyn Zine Fest is this Sunday, April 21st, 2013 from 11am-6pm at Public Assembly in Williamsburg! I’ll be sharing Table #8 with my good friend Tommy Pico (Birdsong Micropress) and we hope you’ll come visit! We’ll both have new and old work for sale and browsing, so come say hello.

In anticipation of the event, OAK NYC invited me to come hang out, try on clothes from their SS13 line, and talk a bit about my work and what I’m looking forward to this weekend.

Check out the full photoshoot and interview on their blog.

SOMEDAY MY PRINTS WILL COME is nicely underway, the first two packages and all welcome content has been distributed to the members. There’s some overflow pieces too and some things are free, check the club page for details!

The club is all about making and doing, and I’m equally responsible for the doing part. Watch me distribute “Missed Connections” postcards for free on the NYC subways here or send your own!

As the weather warms up, so do I. I’ll have some new collaborative projects to talk about and share soon. In the meantime, I’m talking about a whole lot of nothing at all in a new weekly video blog series I’m calling IT’S FUCKING MONDAY.

Lots of interesting and worthwhile things happening lately. Here are the relevant bits:

• Thanks to the help of my wonderful boyfriend (/ “intern”), I got all my planners shipped out! It nearly killed me. Online store orders placed after Christmas will ship at the end of January, and beyond that, the store is “closed for remodeling.”
• PAPER Magazine’s blog published an interview with me in December that makes me sound like both a teenage girl and also someone who knows what they are doing. Both of those things are true and also not true.
• SOMEDAY MY PRINTS WILL COME opened and closed membership, and I am very happy and excited for this new undertaking.
• I publicly posted, then retracted an “‘artist’ ‘statement’,” and then realized that what I really need is a bit of a break.
• I distributed hundreds of New Year 2013 postcards, making it my most exciting New Year card run yet and it’s totally like full of awesome good luck and shit that I really do actually believe in.
• I also wrote about my inspirations this year… now to get to making, doing, and being.
• I’ll be at the Brooklyn Zine Fest, but it’s still early to start thinking about something that isn’t tomorrow, so TTYL, LOL

My kickstarter campaign has successfully come and gone, allowing me to produce an updated version of last year’s popular weekly planner. “2013, Another Year Of Unsolicited Advice & Anecdotes” is now available for regular pre-order and will ship in time for the holidays! Well… Christmas, anyway. Hanukkah is pretty early this year.

I’m also offering three personalized planner prize packages, with custom notes, doodles, and extra treats to those who have already pre-ordered but are willing to help me with a reblog or tweet.

I recently launched a kickstarter campaign to print and distribute the 2013 edition of my weekly planner. My intention is to make it bigger and better. I ended up raising my $1,600 base goal in the first 24 hours. There is currently a week left, and I have hit a secondary goal for even better production (and a larger minimum order).

If you’re interested in obtaining a copy, or multiple copies (“Makes a great gift!”), you can still get those pledges in! The planners will be available after the campaign ends, but they won’t come with all the fun bonuses, so now’s your chance!

Help me to help you and BACK THIS PROJECT!

My first independently produced and distributed t-shirt, “STARVING FOR ATTENTION”, has it’s niche, but if you “get it,” you really “get it.” This pre-order item will finally ship the first week of November! It’s a perfect compliment for my new TOUGH GUYS & TOUGHER GIRLS Pin Set. I’ve also added a new postcard package as well as several notecard varieties.

I’ve been busy! Plus, I’ve got some bigger projects to announce very, very soon, and I am having a lot of trouble keeping this secret!

 
My new zine, “HOME-BREW #2″ is now available in the online store. It’s a 24 page zine that collects new and recent illustration, notes, photographed objects, and more. The package comes with a bunch of fun stuff that crosses the line between the two-dimensional zine content and physical, tangible goods. View select spreads, or just check out the package in the store!

Also, I recently participated in a temporary art show, where I displayed “WELL, HUNG,” a cheeky installation of postcard prints, notes, and more. View an online installation and documentation from the event.

 
Hey I just launched my new website and you are on it right now. Thanks to Ioannis Giannaros for some troubleshooting, and Christopher Muccioli for some aesthetic advice. This new site is better organized and has lots of room to grow — I can’t wait to grow into it more fully.

Also, today marks 1 full year of the Week In Scraps project. It’s a little impossible to think about all that’s changed and all that I’ve done in a year, but there it is, from plane tickets to new apartment keys.

These older updates have traveled from previous incarnations of my website.
Please forgive redundant, outdated, or incorrect information. I’m just a little sentimental.

May 2012
I’ve recently started writing a column for Ten Paces & Draw, an awesome art, illustration, and inspiration hub. “Unsolicited Advice from Adam J. Kurtz” tackles art, design, and post-grad life for creative types, and questions are welcome!

 
April 2012
This month I participated in the Pokemon Battle Royale show at Light Grey Art Gallery in Minneapolis, MN with 150+ other artists! I drew my childhood favorite, Dratini… with a twist. Check it out for yourself, but you’ve been warned, it’s pretty awful. Have also been keeping busy with prints and trinkets, including some new postcard prints and my SORRY I’M SUCH AN ASSHOLE Balloons, which have been blowing up! Is that joke obnoxious or what? I also recently sold out the edition of MIND-THOUGHTS: “Collected,” which will not be reprinted. Thanks to everyone who has purchased anything in the last few months, it’s been an extremely rewarding experience making and producing items on my own, and I’m really enjoying the process.

I also recently relocated to New York, which means there’s new work and collaboration to come… and maybe a new website? We’ll see what happens!

 
December 2011
The POSTCARD OF THE MONTH CLUB has officially ended, with one or two complete sets available before they’re done for good. TALKING ABOUT FEELINGS has sold out, and I recently released a wonderful collaborative zine, MIND-THOUGHTS: “Collected,” with 20+ friends and favorites. Pre-sale has come and gone, but the rest of the edition’s copies will be available in the near future. Also have produced a 2012 weekly planner that has been moving FAST. See all this and more at my newly re-launched online store!

 
October 2011
Oops, haven’t checked in for a bit here, but I’ve been keeping busy! I’ve got several new POSTCARD OF THE MONTH CLUB postcards (some of which are also now available in store at Trohv Baltimore), and a new personal zine called HOME-BREW for sale.

Also have done a few pieces including a poster for NYC musician LIGHTYEAR, a gig poster for Old Flame Records’ CMJ showcase, september event flyer for “Gravitron” (monthly dance party at The Barbary, Philadelpha), a special graphic for the music blog disco naïveté, and some other pieces, too.

In September, I was chosen from hundreds of applicants to fly to Portland and visit ad agency Wieden+Kennedy, and take part in the final round of interviews for their WK12 program. I didn’t make it to the final 12, but I benefitted from a weekend of inspiration, fun, creativity, and free beer.

Finally, I have embarked on a new project, Week In Scraps, that documents the bits and pieces accumulated throughout the week.

 
July 2011
Been running a contest for POSTCARD OF THE MONTH CLUB via tumblr this month, looking forward to connecting with new people there, and giving away some prints! Also, the wonderful Have & Hold Design blog has written a nice piece on the project, which you can read here.

 
June 2011
Lots of little updates! Two new additions to the POSTCARD OF THE MONTH CLUB, which is now available via this site itself, as well as my zine (copies of which are also available at Atomic Books in Baltimore, MD). I’ve added documentation of a website I completed for NY-based musician Rachel Brown, and have compiled 400+ images from my It’s Past My Bedtime project, which I spoke about as part of this year’s Transmodern Festival last month.

 
April 2011
My new zine, TALKING ABOUT FEELINGS, is now for sale online via my new etsy store, as well as my POSTCARD OF THE MONTH CLUB and some other items. More to be added soon!

 
March 2011
I recently completed some branding elements for NYC-based music blog Get Glucky, as well as pieces for Monday, Wednesday, Friday, a comedy web-series launched by some old friends from college who are now based in LA. I collaborated with one of my housemates on BESTEVERBECKYHUNTER.COM, which I am pleased to announce is my greatest work to date. I’ve also recently added several new items to my online store, check it out!

 
January 2011
Added several new pieces to the site including new business cards and several “Bits & Pieces” items. Also launched a small online store for little things here and there. Visit it at adamjkurtz.bigcartel.com.

 
December 2010
My Happy New Year 2011 postcard has been posted at Have and Hold Design and Design Crush. The postcard and other bits and pieces I’ve been creating in the last few months can be browsed over at my flickr.

 
September 2010
Bit of shuffling going on in my personal life! I’m currently looking for full or part time design/marketing/creative work in the Baltimore area. If you are or represent someone looking to hire and think I may be a good fit, please don’t hesitate to contact me! hello@adamjustkidding.com.

 
July 2010
Some original illustration work can be found on LifeTuner, a new AARP initiative geared towards young people and their relationships with money.

 
June 2010
I am participating in the launch of More Collective, a new project featuring Baltimore-based artists. My t-shirt design, “The Winner Harbor,” will be available at the More Collective booth at Charles Village Fest (June 5-6th), Hon Fest (June 12-13th), and Artscape (July 16-18th) this summer, as well as online (full website + store to be launched soon).

 
May 2010
Relaunched the site with new navigation and content. Currently doing ongoing freelance with a Baltimore-based video production studio, as well as smaller one-off projects.

 
April 2010
Work done with artist Jaimes Mayhew for his Accumulation / Temporary Occupation MFA thesis is on display at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture in Baltimore, MD.

 
March 2010
UMBC ArtWeek 2010 marketing materials feature logo variants based on the logo I created with Jenna Ullrich last year, my own design included. Left UMBC’s Commons Administration after 9 months of internal projects and work with the OSL Marketing Intern team. Off for some good adventures!

January 2010
The “we are commonvision” exhibition I curated goes on display with updated content in the UMBC Commons Gallery space, three months after the end of it’s initial display in the UMBC Fine Arts Building First Floor Gallery.