A Design Shop for Prints & Projects

After a very long hiatus, the online store of the Match Factory has been relaunched. It’s now a design shop where you’ll find our projects ranging from the personal to the political. And the optimistic. All screenprints are hand-pulled by yours truly and all projects are self-initiated in keeping with our original statement of intent: because making is part of things.

We’ll be adding more projects in the future and will of course keep things lively. Prints about love? Yes of course. And political activism? Why most definitely. Ah, sweet-sweet variety.

As it’s a design shop for our prints and projects, all sales will go to the making of more prints and projects. And the cycle will go on as long as it makes sense for us.

Thank you for your interest, and for your support.

The Image Gallery

100 Days of Active Resistance Every day for one hundred days, one image representing ideas of Active Resistance in the world will be selected from submissions and shared online.

• ‘The principal idea of Active Resistance is that you get out of life what you put in and that real experience of the world involves thinking’ – Vivienne Westwood.
• 100 days of positive thought, active change, speaking up and being heard. From small personal actions to larger collective moments of change, Vivienne Westwood Anglomania and Lee Jeans encourage communication and individuality through an online installation, sharing interpretations of Vivienne Westwood’s Active Resistance.

Day 87: Don’t just sit there. What would you make better?

I just downloaded Live At Ancienne Belgique from Yeasayer

Celebrate the close of 2010 with some live Yeasayer.

Let’s Swap is a place where artists and designers can swap art for free. It’s brought to you by stellar NYC design firm Hyperakt: meaningful design for the common good.

The first featured swap: Food for Thought / Jason Lynch

• If you had to make a sandwich of all the stuff that inspires you to create, what would it look like? That’s precisely what Hyperaktivist Jason Lynch has illustrated. Airplanes, good coffee, crafty booze, robots, and loud guitars are all prominently featured in this limited edition 22″ x 30″ poster, printed in gray and fluorescent orange by Jason on a gorgeous Folio bright white stock.

Food for Thought by Jason Lynch

Katie and I are part of the “Accepted Swaps” for our print You’ll Find Me Frolicking. We’re thrilled to be a part of such a great project.

You'll Find Me Frolicking by Katie + Justin Kemerling

The finer details:

Share and share alike. And spread the word.

By Scott Albrecht from Re:Form School

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HVD: High-Value Detainee

HVD #56SS / First Name: Hassan

“[W]e don’t kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them.”

A man walks down the street in a foreign city. A car stops, men dressed in black with masks over their faces jump out, grab him and spirit him away to where a private plane — usually a Gulfstream jet — is waiting. The man is shackled, perhaps hooded, perhaps drugged. The plane takes off and travels to somewhere in Poland or Romania, Egypt or Syria. The man is held captive, perhaps for months. What he endures is often physical and mental degradation and pain.

The scenario may sound like a spy thriller or a video game, but extraordinary rendition is all too real.

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The term extraordinary rendition is used to describe the practice of secretly capturing suspected criminals or terrorists without the knowledge of anyone else, including the governments of the countries in which individuals reside. They are then secretly rendered to other countries, secret detention centers or “black sites.” This way individuals can be transferred to other locations to be tortured by proxy without ostensibly violating the United Nations Convention Against Torture and without the writ of habeas corpus.

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The role of the artist is to transcend conventional wisdom, to transcend the word of the establishment, to transcend the orthodoxy, to go beyond and escape what is handed down by the government or what is said in the media. [Howard Zinn, Artists in Times of War].

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December @ Tugboat

PLEASE POST POSTER SHOW

The first friday opening reception is on 12/3/10 and runs from 7-10pm. BE THERE!!

Tugboat Gallery
Lincoln, NE
116 N. 14th Street
Above Gomez Art Supply in the Parrish Building

A poster show featuring the art and design of Denny Schmickle, Joey Lynch, Bonnie O’ Connell, Fred Hosman and Justin Kemerling.

The show itself runs from 12/3/10-12/29/10

Re:Form School by The Masses from Redu on Vimeo.

“We have the ability to reshape what education is going to look like for the next 20 years.”

“When are you gonna demand from education what you demand from your remote control?”

Extraordinary Rendition | Underground

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Extraordinary Rendition | Underground

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