Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
Engaging the complex world of visual communication, the exciting new journal Bricks from the Kiln expands the conversation in design and typography, striking a balance between historical research and current projects, art and graphic design. Assembling a collection of photography, poetry, transcripts, essays, and diary jottings, the editors have allowed connections to develop organically, each piece like a collection of bricks, part of a larger structure. The Situationists loom large, as does the peripheral and the overlooked. Following in the tradition of Typographica, Icteric, Dot Dot Dot, Situationist Times and Theo Crosbys Uppercase, the journal demonstrates how design and typography…