09 Jun Photos: Design Round-up

Andrew here. Also sometimes “Coordinator”, meant to put a name to the nameless hats I’ve worn throughout the project. In the early years, before we broke out work the way we do now, I did a little of everything—whatever was needed. These days I can be more focused, collaborating with others in their position work where I can be most useful, and developing processes and systems to help us all get where we want to goo.

For example, my current plate has on it formalizing artist residencies at Lupinewood, which includes research, developing an application process, working out budgets, setting up spaces, and workshopping the results with the group until we all feel good about it. I’m also just finishing writing and compiling a packet of documents we can use to recruit new collective members in the coming year and the maps and other documents to develop how we host events at Lupinewood.

One through-line in my position has been design: of spaces, of flyers and posters, of systems for us to manage things collectively, of events. I love design, if such a broad use of the term means something specific enough to feel deeply about. Some of what I’ve designed is a little hard to share here on a screen, but some of it isn’t: here are a few favorites from history

Early sign for the downstairs kitchen, to stop (mainly Terran) from cackling while people were sleeping (2018)

Sketches of different rooflines for a future art barn to be built at Lupinewood (2020)

Flow chart for one of the many chapters of the collective food system (2019)

One of eighteen pages of a prospectus we used during our first fundraiser (2017)

Flyer for a dance party during the weekend-long retreat we held for friends and collaborators (2024)

Art on the box for Ruby's deck of playing cards -- the "Doom Deck" (2019)

A map of Lupinewood's land and buildings for visitors (2023)

Design for a compilation album we put together the first year (2017)

Flyer for Lupinewood Institute's first large community-wide event (2025)

A menu for a family business we helped a friend to start (2020)