Art & culture blog, BIG THINGS, invites you to a pop-up art market on Tuesday, February 7th from 5-9pm at Public Works Gallery in Wicker Park! 

Come support our favorite Chicago artists and designers showcasing their jewelry, printed matter, photographs, vintage clothing and art objects. Including work by the talented fellows at The Post Family; artist and maker, Debbie Carlos; hand-selected goods from the BIG THINGS SHOP; and 10+ vendors! Join us for drinks and snacks as we raffle off prizes from Revolution Brewing Co. and our vendors to benefit 826Chi, our neighborhood non-profit writing and tutoring center.

This event is the first installation of BIG BIG CITY, a yearlong series of events celebrating and connecting the vibrant arts communities of the USA.

Check out the event page for more info.

Note Well is a new book by Debbie Carlos for 5x7.

Debbie's photos attempt to capture objects at their moments of greatest clarity: In certain light, at a certain time of day, in a certain place. The method is to wander and notice. Moments of quiet strangeness, patterns of light and shadow, minute-by-minute surprises, changes that don’t happen, something askew, something exactly in place, natural and artificial phenomena, are all sources of inspiration, and the subjects for her work.

You can buy a copy here.

If you were a fan of the record print well, brace yourself for the 45 edition!

If you haven't seen my record print, I basically sat down and drew a spiral for 6 hours to replicate the path a needle takes across a record's surface. 

The 45 print is now available at the 5x7 shop!

Well, well, have we got a treat for you. For our next Family Room show we will be featuring the work of 5 dashing southern lads also known as Public School. And an added bonus, they're all road-tripping to chicago for the show! Well, except for Will, he's taking a fancy plane from Portland. This might be the funnest Post Family party ever!

PUBLIC SCHOOL is an Austin-based collective focused on design, illustration and photography. For a group based around creative collaboration, Homework is an opportunity to show the work created individually, after-hours, and with no client direction. Spanning a variety of mediums and covering subjects including cowboys, hot dogs, old motels, 30s stuff, and trade gothic, Homework features much of the self-initiated work produced by the studio this year.

Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 9, 2011.

This event is sponsored by the rad cats at Uncommon. We will be selling limited run, Public School designed, iPhone 4 cases!

What began as a basic exploration in typography slowly transformed into a process of reduction and improvisation.

We started by type setting some of our favorite jazz album titles. Then we broke down the letterforms into shapes. We took the shapes and began composing them across spreads. The result is a musically-inspired narrative. One that ebbs and flows from page to page. The subtle tints, lines and textures weave together a story that only the reader may interpret.

• 5x7 inches
• cover: 1 color offset with gold foil stamp
• body: 1 color offset
• 32 pages
• Saddle stitch binding
• Mohawk 50lb white text
• Cougar 80lb natural cover
• Limited Edition of 100, hand-numbered

Available for purchase at our store.