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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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Steve Mehallo

Flommist Steve Mehallo is a graphic designer, illustrator, font designer, educator, foodie and gadfly. He is the creator and founder of FLOMM!

Steve Mehallo
Tue 17 Jan 2017

efrt create show hits sacramento

‘do me a play­er fa­vor’ Car­lo Cyphers has been a main­stay at a bunch of FLOMM things. And NOW he has a show

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Steve Mehallo
Wed 28 Dec 2016

final call: flomm 2016 postage stamps

Been do­ing this for the past cou­ple years – with 1923 as the an­chor. And what a way to cel­e­brate what’s left

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Steve Mehallo
Thu 15 Dec 2016

orzechowski: back to the death star

“Orze­chows­ki mod­eled his let­ter­ing on the Flash Gor­don news­pa­per strips of the 1930s. An­oth­er in­flu­ence was Robert Crumb’s Zap Comix: Orze­chows­ki recognized

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Steve Mehallo
Sun 27 Nov 2016

flommist gigposter for peter murphy

Flomm is in­spired by ear­ly mod­ern art the way the Bauhaus band was in­spired by the Bauhaus and Ger­man Ex­pres­sion­ism evolved into

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Steve Mehallo
Wed 9 Nov 2016

nov 10: events by flommists, same time different venues

Some­how this was all dou­ble booked.  But, go­ing on Thurs­day 10 No­vem­ber 2017 in the Sacra­men­to area, a bunch of flom­mists have

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Steve Mehallo
Thu 28 Jul 2016

celebrating 93 years of flomm! today

With a fake art move­ment (that’s be­come some­thing else along the way) we need­ed not only a man­i­festo – but also a

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Steve Mehallo
Tue 19 Jul 2016

the speech i’d give

We had every­thing be­fore us, we had noth­ing be­fore us, we were all go­ing di­rect to Heav­en, we were all go­ing direct

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Steve Mehallo
Wed 18 May 2016

death of a little piece of modern art

lit­tle red bot­tle colour­ful idea promis­es of light and dizzy band of blue, band of red or­ga­ni­za­tion­al           with or­ange for dog amer­i­can pills wash­ing down pipes shkre­li’s

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Steve Mehallo
Thu 5 May 2016

flommist laurie rosenwald in nyc, ends may 9

Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of cre­atives that set­tle into their own lit­tle niche. Artists and de­sign­ers who be­come one-trick-ponies.

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Steve Mehallo
Wed 4 May 2016

phenylketonurics: contains phenylalanine

In the spir­it of The Fu­tur­ist Cook­book, Bwargh von Mod­nar and I de­cid­ed to play with wa­ter and flavours. That is, the

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Steve Mehallo
Sun 1 May 2016

4.23 had no bloodshed – also, no art snobs

“You have the face of a pro­mot­er.”           —Rone said that from his mix­ing board, while sit­ting in the vin­tage chair that was

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Steve Mehallo
Sat 16 Apr 2016

10 things in stockton, an insiders guide

FLOMM 4.23 is hap­pen­ing in STOCK­TON, Cal­i­for­nia next week­end.  And every town has a per­son­al­i­ty (just go dig­ging back thru our Instagram

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Steve Mehallo
Thu 14 Apr 2016

why stockton?

4.23 was in plan­ning long be­fore we re­leased FLOMM! ART HO­TEL sort of stoked the flames. Got us off our col­lec­tive ass­es. It’s been

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Steve Mehallo
Wed 6 Apr 2016

you’re invited! one night only of norcal flomm printing +art

Stieglitz had 291 Pi­cabia had 391 Flomm has 4.23 and AS I WRITE THIS we are DEEEEEP in plan­ning 4.23 – our next

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Steve Mehallo
Sat 6 Feb 2016

flommist rxc talks fonts, free webcast 12 feb

I’ve known Rod Cava­zos for over 20 years. It was serendip­i­ty. Type de­sign­er Steve Mat­te­son hand­ed me a piece of pa­per covered

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Steve Mehallo
Tue 5 Jan 2016

flomm at game audio summit

In Sacra­men­to? This Fri­day I’ll be giv­ing a FREE TALK about the SOUND DE­SIGN for FLOMM … here is every­thing you need

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Steve Mehallo
Tue 29 Dec 2015

last chance: flomm92 postage stamps

‘only avail­able this year’         —avail­abil­i­ty of our FLOMM 92nd an­niver­sary U.S. postage stamp ends this week. Thurs­day evening. Go­ing to pull the plug around midnight. 

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Steve Mehallo
Sat 26 Dec 2015

flommín around on soundcloud

There’s a huge dif­fer­ence be­tween mix­ing mu­sic and mix­ing sound ef­fects. It’s two com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent mind­sets. —Chelsea Davis I start­ed work­ing on

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Steve Mehallo
Sun 20 Dec 2015

flomm thème on soundcloud

Let’s do some­thing that the mod­erns would have played if they knew about today’s mu­sic —this was the con­cept be­hind the mu­sic for FLOMM!

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Steve Mehallo
Sat 12 Dec 2015

how to get a flomm font me mug for free*

Sev­er­al years ago I came up with this idea:  Why not put a pro­fes­sion­al type gauge (with pica/point/inch) on a cof­fee mug?  Graph­ic designers,

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Steve Mehallo
Thu 10 Dec 2015

palette of pixels closes this sunday

‘Are video games art? No. Video games aren’t art be­cause they are quite thor­ough­ly some­thing else: Code.’  —Liel Lei­bovitz, MoMA Has Mis­tak­en Video

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Steve Mehallo
Fri 27 Nov 2015

a flomm holiday gift guide for every budget

Some­thing bor­rowed, some­thing neu, some­thing FLOMM. Giv­ing the Gift of FLOMM this year is rather easy. And it’ll sur­prise your re­cip­i­ents with some­thing a

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Steve Mehallo
Wed 11 Nov 2015

desperate times

Mike Mehal­lo (1923–2006). My dad, the dec­o­rat­ed WWII vet­er­an. Also, the guy who once tried to sink a Ger­man sub­ma­rine with a

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Steve Mehallo
Mon 26 Oct 2015

flomm in jersey

Ra­di­a­tion un­der­ground and in the sky An­i­mals and birds who live near­by are dy­ing Ohh Flomm in Jer-sey, ahh things ain’t what they used

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Steve Mehallo
Sun 25 Oct 2015

flomm in korea

I found the sim­ple life ain’t so sim­ple When I jumped out on that road I got no love, just Flomm in Ko­rea Ain’t

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