give & take

New York, New York

give & take explores the question: how can we find a sustainable balance within a creator’s urge to create? The project poses an alternative solution to the inevitable problem by creating a system built on a basis of thoughtful design, exchange and education.

give & take facilitates spaces that house the cyclical exchange of existing and in-progress artworks, creating a new mode of recycling specifically for the creative community. These spaces of recirculation include pop ups, events, and the launch of a local artwork recycling closet in Brooklyn: a more independent mode of exchange similar to the community fridge model. give & take hosts workshops centered around material education ranging from natural pigment, to Risograph to paper making.

The website’s content promotes the ethos of the project – a New York “scrap map” of secondhand materials and accessible small businesses, a repository of digital bio-material resources, and a downloadable template for the identity. The identity itself explores the rabbit hole of low tech possibilities a digital space can hold – a color palette that’s pixels use less energy (and complete lack of white pixels), open-source type accessible via the community template, vector shapes, minimized file sizes, thicker type and illustrations for legibility, no third party hosting, and downloadable website code and flyer proposals.