Thursday, November 1, 2012

mio deserto arte moda

Various pieces from my Mio Deserto days (2006-2009).



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Top- 2007 Giovanni's snake with butterfly wings that I made playing god with a photocopier and Dover book.
Middle-2006 business card made by gluing cutout letters on another business card and making a print of it.
Bottom-2006 Flyer for our first show at the house on Via Degli Alfani

jev cosimo, joshua cosimo Mio Deserto
2007- Deconstructed poster from our shop on Via Fiesolana "MIO DESERTO ARTE MODA CULT SHOP"


jev cosimo, joshua cosimo Mio Deserto
2008-Garibaldi poster on an economics book with "mio deserto" in Japanese script by Kaol.

Poster Detail

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"Cruise" 2007 Mio Deserto shop poster printed on a map. 

jev cosimo, joshua cosimo, mio deserto
2007- I used a French font source book and a couple of rub transfer font sheets from the 70's to create this logo. This is about the time hipsters started to bother me.

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a detail of the color breakdown of the font. This example is printed on  an old history book.
   

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This poster was printed with lesbians in mind, It combined the new font with imagery taken from an Italian elementary school geography book.
    

A brain storming sheet in one of my sketch books, I really liked 100% Italian hand job. It also has the third  generation of our label, It was a stamp made from a print made from a sewn label. It was the ultimate in feedback loop.


jev cosimo, joshua cosimo, mio deserto
The last incarnation of the label during my tenure was a Gothic high German  font with a  medieval skeleton in the middle. I designed this logo to go with the We are all 1 prints in 2009. The bottom photo was the back room of the Mio Deserto shop on Via Fiesolana showing Garibaldi flag, one of my murals, and various other sight specific art works.