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Things I like doing: Creating, Designing, Drawing, Building, Making, Doing, Being, Seeing, Believing
Some of Maseman’s activities involve working with others to encourage creative collaborations.
Since 2006, he has been an art director at The Screamer Company, an Austin advertising and design shop, where he has won awards for his graphic design and art direction.
Mason collaborated in 2009 with designer and fabricator David Clark on Euclid Meets Cumberland, a pop-up art show at Bows+Arrows, an Austin boutique.
In 2010, along with artist and designer Jessica Rose Clark, Mason co-founded CRUMMY HOUSE, a small print collective that creates handmade, limited-edition prints and zines with people they admire.
Though Mason’s work has been featured in collaborative projects like RVLVR, Grass Hut’s “Hut on an Island,” and Dublab’s “Into Infiinity,” his favorite work has been shown on many a bathroom wall. “A public wall is the most open gallery to me,” he says. “I love seeing the dialogue that happens when people are allowed to draw wherever and whatever they want. It’s a truly free environment when you can write on other people’s work, collaborate and leave your mark. It is complete freedom.”
“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.”
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
“While I struggle between being a graphic designer and an artist, I feel the two actually feed each other in one way or the other. Sometimes when art gets too free, I go back to design. When design gets too controlling, I sketch around a notebook for a while. If they both are doing it, I’ll cut up some wood and glue it together and spray paint it, hang it on a wall and photograph it. I’m a child of the 80′s and can’t sit still for too long, so this type of working just comes naturally.”- Designers Journal, 2011
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
RVLVR, RVLVR.NET
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
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
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, The Quiet Life
How Design Top 10 Sites for Designers, How Design
Fader Fort Artist 2011 for Fiat, FADER
Print Row featured artist, Style X 2011
Fader Fort Artist 2010 for Converse, FADER
HOPE Camapaign, Unplugged in the Sun at Big Red Sun, HOPE Campaign
