Two-Thirds Primary is a selection of red and blue Polaroids by photographers Rod Hunting and Tiffany Paige. For over a year, Rod and Tiffany have been biking around the south Chicago area, exploring their neighborhood and taking Polaroids; Rod takes the red images and Tiffany handles the blue. Rod says of their collaborative project that it

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“It didn’t take long for us to realize that this was the worst business idea we’d ever had,” Coudal says, since time and postage costs would only increase as more people participated. So the trade-cool-stuff project took on a new, revenue-generating dimension. Rod Hunting, who works for a Chicago package-design company, had submitted an example of a poster he made from his line drawings of vintage cameras. Coudal called Hunting and asked if he would be willing to print 100 of them, to be sold exclusively through the Swap Meat for $35 each. (Coudal splits proceeds evenly with the creator.) These sold out, Hunting’s own site saw a traffic spike and a publication called File Magazine contacted him about publishing a series of Polaroids he had highlighted there. “I wasn’t really expecting any of that to happen,” Hunting says. “It was huge.” He is now selling a second set of prints, of stereo-equipment drawings.”

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Name: Alex
Profession: Alex is a graphic designer and member of The Post Family.
Location: West Loop
Type: One-Room Loft
Years Lived In: 3 months

Clean and simple. Alex’s West Loop loft is an understated tribute to mid-century modernism. It’s also a tricked-out bachelor pad (with no big-screen TV or pool table in sight). As a typographer and one of the wunderkinds behind West Loop print shop The Post Family, Alex has an eye for good design.

Inside his airy loft, Alex has preserved a lot of breathing space. Filled with a few classic pieces and a little bit of bold color, his home is a testament to good editing. One indulgence – a collection of three bicycles.

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“It’s possible to get [posters] from artists that are very affordable…a lot for $20 and definitely under $50, [so you can] buy enough that you can switch it out,” she says. “It looks nice and can reflect a certain point in your life or interests.” Locally, she loves the Bird Machine (pictured, bottom right; thebirdmachine.com), Spike Press (pictured, middle; spikepress.com), the Post Family (pictured, bottom left; thepostfamily.com) and Little Friends of Printmaking (thelittlefriendsofprintmaking.com).

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