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The Tenderloin Geographic Society

Produced in association with the Asian Art Museum and Space Bi, this series of postcards depicting museum employees' desk spaces highlighted the hidden world of nonprofit work. Postcards were displayed alongside masterworks from the collection of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.
Postcards of Cinematic San Francisco. The popular image of a city is formed by the roles it plays in film and television, and the Tenderloin Geographic Society was only too happy to exploit that relationship.
The San Francisco Green Card sought to alleviate the tenuous relationship of the transplant in a new city. Citizen applicants were sworn in after repeating the Oath of Citizenship, and then received a laminated and stamped card to carry with them as a sign of acceptance and commitment to their adopted city.
In 2008 I was asked to map the Tenderloin for the local arts and culture magazine The Skinny. That piece of colloquial cartography led to a commission by a local business group to map the cafes and eateries of the Tenderloin, resulting in a poster that was placed in the windows of the neighborhood's restaurants.
Assorted illustration for the Tenderloin Geographic Society

The Tenderloin Geographic Society
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The Tenderloin Geographic Society

Begun in 2006 as a means of mapping San Francisco's Tenderloin District, the project grew to encompass history both real and imagined.

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