adamlucas.info — last updated 07.03.18

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adamlucas.info —
last updated 07.03.18

Archive

About

This site is a space for ideas, sketches, and studies. It’s mostly observations and impressions of the everyday that attempt to spotlight the something in nothing. Added content — things both newer and older — will come and go, while everything that’s been shown to date will live in the archive.


Adam Lucas is a graphic designer and educator based in Kansas City, MO. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Kansas City Art Institute.

Previously, Adam was a Senior Designer at SYPartners; a co-founder with Andrew LeClair of LeClair Lucas, a graphic design studio that worked with artists, architects, and cultural institutions to produce identities, publications, and collateral for print and screen; and an art director at Wieden+Kennedy.

Adam has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and School of Visual Arts. He received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Kenyon College.

Teaching

  • Currently
  • Typography I & II, Design Systems  —  KCAI
  • Previously
  • Grad Typography  —  MICA (17, 18), Pratt
  • Guerrilla Graphic Design  —  SVA
  • Begin with Ideas Workshop  —  MICA
  • Pop-Ups Incubator  —  MICA
  • Advanced Typography  —  MICA
  • Relational Design  —  RISD

Contact

  • Offline
  • 5851 Highland Avenue
  • Kansas City, MO 64110

Colophon

  • Copyright
  • © 2018 Adam Lucas
  • unless otherwise noted

Asterism (⁂)

In typography, an asterism, or “group of stars,” is the typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle. Now rarely used or near-obsolete its purpose is to indicate minor breaks in text, call attention to a passage, or to separate sub-chapters in a book (as in this edition of Ulysses). It can also be used to mean “untitled” or author or title withheld. In meteorology, an asterism in a station model indicates moderate snowfall.

Newer

Fasshon Nº1, 2018 | Read more

A cone and umbrella, 2018 | Read more

Fasshon Nº2, 2018 | Read more

Spooky, 2018 | Read more

Nails, 2018 | Read more

Plants and a mirror, 2018 | Read more

Leopard print, 2018 | Read more

Stamp crop Nº9, 2018 | Read more

Older

Old window, 2004 | Read more

Hydrant, 2003 | Read more

Tropical liquors, 2009 | Read more

Excerpts

“What I want to do is write something that seems like it means something and doesn’t”

From an interview with Percival Everett in The Paris Review.

Instagram ad Nº1, 2018 | Read more

Time

Teaching

  • Currently
  • Typography I & II, Design Systems  —  KCAI
  • Previously
  • Grad Typography  —  MICA (17, 18), Pratt
  • Guerrilla Graphic Design  —  SVA
  • Begin with Ideas Workshop  —  MICA
  • Pop-Ups Incubator  —  MICA
  • Advanced Typography  —  MICA
  • Relational Design  —  RISD

Contact

  • Offline
  • 5851 Highland Avenue
  • Kansas City, MO 64110

Colophon

  • Copyright
  • © 2018 Adam Lucas
  • unless otherwise noted

Asterism (⁂)

In typography, an asterism, or “group of stars,” is the typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle. Now rarely used or near-obsolete its purpose is to indicate minor breaks in text, call attention to a passage, or to separate sub-chapters in a book (as in this edition of Ulysses). It can also be used to mean “untitled” or author or title withheld. In meteorology, an asterism in a station model indicates moderate snowfall.