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Maseman is Mason McFee, an artist and designer living in Austin, Texas.
Born Mason McFee in 1981, Maseman spent his childhood in a small Texas town called Boerne collaborating on projects like building tree houses, rolling giant boulders down hills, building skate ramps and jumping bikes into creeks.
Since his days of rock and roll, Mason worked for seven years designing and art directing at a successful Austin start-up agency. Now he is working for hire for a variety of clients in Austin and elsewhere.
Crummy House, a collaborative art project, co-founded with Jessica Rose Clark also keeps him busy.
If you don’t find me hanging with friends and family, I’ll probably be drawing, designing,
building, making, computing and sometimes just thinking.
“Still a child at heart, his art oozes with his affection for the outdoors. Outside of his personal work, Mason has worked for seven years designing and art directing at a successful Austin start-up agency. The inner struggle between the graphic design Mason and the art Mason is real. But the work, whatever the medium is realer.”
-Kendrick Daye, Art Nouveau Magazine
Some of Maseman’s activities involve working with others to encourage creative collaborations.
From 2005 to 2012, Mason was an art director and designer at Screamer Co., an Austin advertising and design shop, where his work helped the company achieve many advertising awards. What Mason enjoyed most about working in the agency was working with other artists, designers and interns on projects of many different kinds. While at Screamer, he helped the company form an annual art publication which was distributed at launch parties and included entries from around the world.
In 2010, along with artist and designer Jessica Rose Clark, Mason co-founded CRUMMY HOUSE, a small print collective that creates small run prints and zines.
Mason collaborated in 2009 with designer and fabricator David Clark on Euclid Meets Cumberland, a pop-up art show at Arrow and Arrow.
“Art has always been the leader of the revolution.” Or perhaps more simply, as participant Mason McFee,
a printmaker and illustrator, says, “I like to make art; you should, too.”
- Barry Pinelo, Austin Chronicle 2006
Projects
Mason has contributed to a wide-range of design projects, art shows, and events in the past:
Cornerstone Productions, Domy Books, The Fader Fort, Converse, TDK, Islands Fold, Grass Hut, Museums Press, Good Press Gallery, Wooden Toy Magazine, Tribeza Magazine, AGLIFF, Spartan, Bows+Arrows, Dublab, Crooks, Iron Age, Guns of Navarone, Cyclopean Records, Style X, 1080, Pump Project, The Hideout, HOPE Campaign, Toms and many more
Click here to view a few sample projects
Publications
Tribeza magazine, Feature, Design Issue
Museums Press Anthology, Published by Museums Press
Future Perfect, Published by Beautiful/Decay, Volume 6
Change is Good, Published by Museums Press
Shining Magazine, Special Issue 1, Published by Marie Blanchard
Cantanker Magazine Issue 8, Transitions
Anteism, YGWYG, A Collaborative Street Art Effort
Islands Fold MEBEMEWEBE, Islands Fold
Shows
2013
21 Helmets, 1 Moto Show – Cool write up from Town Moto
Much Updo About Somethings, Maison de’Toile
Together/Whatever, Common House
2012
Band of Loners, Common House
CH X CH Zine Release and Megazine Launch, Common House
Share Your Beauty, an exhibition by You Are Beautiful
Waller Creek Conservancy, Pool Party
2011
Monster Show 6, Domy Books
The Family Show, Good Press, click to view the show
Boom! All Mediums Come Together to Celebrate Our Differences, AGLIFF
Museums Press Presents at Islington Mill, MUSEUMS PRESS
2010
Domy Monster Show 5, Domy Books
ARTWORK-FRIENDSHIP, Thunderbird Coffee
2009
Holiday Benefit for Blue Dog Rescue, Bows+Arrows and Spartan
Some Kind of Art, Exhibition, 1080, Austin, TX
2008
Hut on an Island, Grass Hut and Islands Fold
Shining Magazine, Special Issue 1
Mercado Austin, Mercado Austin
Into Infinity, a project by Dublab
Exhibition, 1080, Austin, TX
Pump Project, Paraphernalia, Austin, TX
2007
Dreams Are Made of These, The Hideout, Austin, TX
Wooden Toy Magazine, Little Wooden Toy Show
Anteism, YGWYG, A Canadian collaborative effort
Other stuff
The Quiet Life – For A Good Cause Contest, 2008 The Quiet Life
How Design Top 10 Sites for Designers, 2010 How Design
Fader Fort Artist 2011 for Fiat, FADER
Fader Fort Artist 2010 for Converse, FADER
HOPE Camapaign, Unplugged in the Sun at Big Red Sun, HOPE Campaign
