Thumb is a Brooklyn-based graphic design office that was established as a partnership in 2007. Thumb works on public, private, and self-initiated projects, usually in the areas of architecture, art, design, and culture. Office founders Jessica Young and Luke Bulman both received Master of Architecture degrees from Rice University, in Houston, Texas, in 2002 and 1998 respectively.
Thumb is fond of fluorescent inks, microscopic art, live and immediate processes, color, Ebay, shape, very glossy paper, discs, surprises, diagrams, rainbow paper, awkward transitions...
Some of our current projects include:
2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture American Pavilion
We're working with 306090 and the High Museum in Atlanta on the American Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale to open at the end of August. We're developing the overall visual identity including the exhibition catalog.
Some Notes on Color
We're developing a new self-initiated project, Some Notes on Color. These slim publications offer a platform for talking about, and showing, aspects of color that we’ve often overlooked. We are especially interested in how pigments are developed and the history of their development and application. The first issue is on ultramarine blue followed up with an issue on fluorescents.
Bracket—On Farming
Bracket is a new serial publication from InfraNetLab and Archinect. The first issue, On Farming, features 38 projects and six essays on the complex inter-relationships among architecture, urbanism, horticulture, development, landscape and globalization in an information-rich environment.
New Geographies 4
This summer we'll be working with editor El Hadi Jazairy on the fifth volume of Harvard Graduate School of Design's New Geographies publication series.