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10.10.08
Sketchbook Series: Chad Kouri

I had the pleasure of sharing quite a few bloody marys with my new friend Chad Kouri on Monday. Chad was visiting New York and Philly from Chicago, photographing artist spaces for upcoming features on The Post Family blog. If you haven’t checked out the design collective’s blog yet you should. And according to Chad it’s going to be expanding with all sorts of goodies soon. Chad himself is working freelance doing lots of different design projects that even range to set design and gallery installations. You can check out his work right here. I am most excited about his paper collages which mix interesting imagery with type or texture. While Chad was here I was able to take some pictures of his recent sketchbook and then he sent some other pictures to me from another one, so these images below are a sampling of two sketchbooks. We haven’t really had any “designers” share sketchbooks here since Isaac Tobin so I was excited that Chad let us have a peek. Here he experiments with type treatments, collages pieces, and writes himself to-do lists, which I noticed can be multiple pages long! Hope you enjoy his work! Thanks Chad!

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29 Comments
10/10/08  9:52am
Chad Kouri wrote

Thanks Julia! Glade you kept that blank page in there. I thought that was funny.
10/10/08  10:23am
James wrote

I love his hand-rendered type. Thanks.
10/10/08  11:15am
Jamie wrote

$6 pitchers of shitty beer and bad music. I like Chad already.
10/10/08  12:41pm
Chad Kouri wrote

Thanks for the kind words James and Jamie! The $6 shitty beer sketch will be a screen printed poster coming out soonish at www.thepostfamily.com
10/10/08  5:04pm
SimpleScott wrote

Chad’s sketchbooks are a physical manifestation of his soul. A free spirit with a particular joy in exploration. Keep it up home boy.
10/10/08  8:11pm
Andy Schwegler wrote

I have had the opportunity to see Chad’s sketchbooks in person and it’s a real treat to flip through them. A great reflection of his personality and eclectic interests, needs more flourishes though :)
10/11/08  8:48am
Samantha Jasmine hahn wrote

Love Chad’s stuff. That camera post is one of my favorites. Beautiful sketchbook, really fun and experimental. Good job Julia.
10/11/08  10:13pm
billy s. wrote

chad kouri is neat i think his work is neat and he is neat keep being neat chad.
10/11/08  10:15pm
billy s. wrote

awesome!
10/12/08  9:05am
rui vitorino santos wrote

long live analog…..i agree.
10/13/08  3:14am
Mariam wrote

I’ve been looking at his sketches over and over again! Thanks for the inspiration :)
10/13/08  7:10am
Esti wrote

another great artist! Thanks for sharing your sketchbook, chad!
10/13/08  10:03am
kelly wrote

I really love this sketchbook series - thank you for getting all these great artists to share their private work!
10/13/08  10:11am
erin wrote

$6 pitchers of Shitty Beer never looked so good.
10/13/08  6:10pm
Burnsie wrote

sure is Fancy my friend. great to see hand writen type in this digital world. cheers to delicious bloody marries
10/13/08  8:18pm
anthony wrote

um, yeah ok. awesome! really inspiring. as a designer i always think my sketchbook is bad. i wish i could spin type like that out of my head.
10/14/08  1:51am
Chad Kouri wrote

Thanks for all the support everyone! You can’t see right now, but I am blushing.
10/14/08  2:42pm
Joe Tallarico wrote

Awesome work! Great ideas.
10/15/08  8:49pm
Words&Eggs wrote

Umm… the awesomeness of these pages makes me want to close my own sketchbook for good.

Ok, just being melodramatic. But these are awesome! I’ve always been a huge fan of illuminated initials, so I’m basically fawning over all of these pages…

Thanks for sharing!
10/19/08  10:23am
Maria wrote

These pages are soo amazing and beautiful! I’m in love with them since days.
10/19/08  5:57pm
Mom wrote

As always your creativity and talent amazes me.
10/19/08  10:41pm
eva wrote

very inspiring! i’ve got to start keeping an actual sketchbook again, instead of always sketching on random slips of paper.
10/25/08  4:08pm
Chad Kouri wrote

Thank you everyone for the support (hi mom!). Damn Julia, you have a great community here. Makes me think that I should enable comments on some of the sites I am working on.
11/1/08  10:29am
uncharted wrote

great pages… somehow I’m always keeping multiple sketchbooks at once, but love seeing the “narrative” of a complete sketchbook.
12/15/08  12:52pm
Caitlin wrote

Long live analog indeed. These are amazing.
12/15/08  7:02pm
Lido Pimienta wrote

sigh..

can’t get enough of this one….

much love!
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02/25/09  9:24am
holly wrote

My neighbor kept pages of my “doodles” all throughout high school and now I wish I had them! Even more, it’s fun to peek at someone else’s. LOVE IT!

thanks, holly
02/25/09  5:25pm
el norberto wrote

congratulations great site great idea and great work add me the mailing list

hello from Mexico
03/31/09  2:31pm
Lauren wrote

Chad, these pages are so beautiful!

I’m being really bad at the moment and don’t have a sketchbook which is terrible terrible stuff…

What kind of sketchbook do you have? The paper looks quite thin in some of the images, almost like newsprint, i really like it!
xx

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