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Aerial photo of a public art installation mapping the path of an underground stream. A bright blue wavy line snakes all the ways across a roadway and sidewalks between a grass strip and a black metal fence.
A girl does a backbend underneath a sculptural chair public art installation
Rebranding campaign and participatory logo for the Baltimore Museum of Art
Dozens of lost gloves arranged on a long fence for the public art installation Library of Lost Gloves and Lost Loves by Bruce Willen
Waverly W large sculptural alphabet letter neighborhood gateway signage in Baltimore's Waverly neighborhood
Hieroglyphic House, rendering of a proposed public art installation of a deep blue house-like structure with walls and roofs punctured by windows of shaped iconographic imagery in vibrant colors. Sunlight streaming through these openings casts colorful shadows on the ground.
Ghost Stoops public art installation of glowing doorways and front stoops installed on the site of missing, demolished rowhouses in Baltimore
Public Park art action against landbanking
Branding and detournements for The Necessity of Tomorrows, an Afro-futurist themed lecture series at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Branding and fast-casual restaurant design for the food stall and carryout counter Noisy Burger, featuring a large yellow mural of fun, energetic doodles.
Typographic mural lettering and kinetic poetry wrap around the lobby of The Voxel Theater
Words are Pictures are Words installation at the Baltimore Musdeum of Art
A high-contrast supergraphic black and white mural covering the entire facade of a Baltimore rowhouse with giant black concentric rings, the storefront for Beyond Video, a contemporary video store and lending library
Sculptural 3d signage wrapping around the corner of the Parkway Theatre in Baltimore
massive abstract painted mural art on the side of the Union Collective warehouse in Baltimore
Fine art photos documenting bricked up windows, doors, and architectural openings by artist and designer Bruce Willen
Public Print Lab participatory art installation
A Chrome browser extension that replaces words for increased news comprehension
New Maps I and II framed abstract letterpress prints
Codependent Chair, a chair with one broken-off leg supported by a large rock
American Expansionism, 2012. An editioned baseball bat sculpture etched with the racist caricature Cleveland Indians logo and the words American Expansionism.
Twilights Last Gleaming. A two-color screenprint of a stack of cannonballs, with the Eye of Providence hidden in the top cannonball.
A letterpress print with all of the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner overprinted onto themselves in dense black bars
Through the Perilous Fight. A colorful screenprint of a tangled, snakelike, many-striped American flag
Detail of 78th Generation American, 2007. 78 progressively degraded xerox photocopies of an American flag
Post Typographic bible artist book, a full-sized bible with all of the text from the New Testament overprinted on a single page. The remaining pages in the book are blank.
In Defense of Inconvenience – Design Observer
Community, Collaboration, and Amateurism – A lecture at George Mason University's Visual Voices Series
Keynote speaker, guest lecturer, visiting artist and designer at MCAD, Harvard, KCAI, PSU, UT Austing, IIDA, TDC New York, Cooper Union, AIA, AIGA, Hopscotch Design Festival, etc.
Adjunct faculty, designer in residence, and guest lecturer at universities and art schools
City of Baltimore Mayor's Office of Performance and Innovation
Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces by Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals
Street Numeral, creative building numbers, numerals, and numeric wayfinding signage
Michael Cataldi – Flower Potholes
The Book Thing of Baltimore: Be Greedy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the power of design
Branding Politics - Vote for Good Design
Bruce Willen and Albert Birney, two white men with glasses, hats, and medium length hair sit amidst large tropical plant leaves.
Peals performing at Artisphere, surrounded by Blue Lights
Peals – Honey album cover
Peals – Walking Field album cover
Peals – Seltzer album cover
The post-punk band Double Dagger performing live
Materials – Materials