An ongoing series of delineations of the Revell model #05235, a 1:380 scale replica of the N/S Savannah, these drawings are measured manipulations of a precisely modeled digital 3D model, viewed in parallel axinometric, transformed & deformed using an array of digital tools.
Detailed descriptions of these drawings are forthcoming.
In honor of the Museum of Modern Art's contemporary exhibit Here is Every, HeaderFooter conducted an analysis of the works on display and the history of their creation, acquisition, and exhibition.
This exploration of the metadata of exhibition clarifies temporal and geographic proclivities of artwork exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, revealing the relationship between the museum's most recent acquisitions and its historical curatorial inclinations.
The Business Information Sheet, designed by HeaderFooter, is the foundation of every business license application filed in Chicago and is completed tens of thousands of times each year.
Given design constraints included the use of a single font and construction entirely within Microsoft Word.
As an intermediary physical step between the applicant and the city's database software, the paper form has two distinct users: the applicant, and the city worker entering the form's contents into the city's database. HeaderFooter's final design takes into account both of these processes, clarifying the requested information for the applicant while preserving the tab field-order of the database software used by the city workers.
In addition, HeaderFooter designed the Peddler License Form used by the City of Chicago.
HeaderFooter redesigned the suite of Liquor License forms used by the Chicago Police Department, Vice Control Division when undergoing a liquor license investigation.
Given design constraints included the use of a single font and construction entirely within Microsoft Word.
This suite of form is now used by the Chicago Police Department and the City of Chicago's Department of Law to investigate all new liquor license applicant entities.
The complexity built into the process of creating certain businesses in the City of Chicago remains a primary example of how preventing access to information helps sustain corruption of public interests in favor of municipal politics and private business interests - particularly liquor wholesaling and private attorney interests.
In the summer of 2007, HeaderFooter worked with the Department of Business Affairs in Chicago's City Hall to address the complexity and corruption of the City of Chicago's zoning ordinances through the design and reorganization of the city's Zoning tables for use in conjunction with the process of applying for liquor, amusement, and other complex business license applications. Given constraints included the use of a single font, and construction within Microsoft Word.
Our final design reorganized the structure of the city's Zoning ordinances by use, rather than by zone, allowing business owners to quickly compare zoning one of the few zoning lawyers in the city. In addition, the tables bring in key components of Illinois law governing liquor and amusement establishments, further clarifying the interaction of Zoning regulations with Moratorium, Vote-Dry, Vote-Wet, and explicitly-prohibited location legislation.
Update: As of 2008 & 2009, the City of Chicago still publishes the original, out-of-date tables and maps on their website; up-to-date versions are only available in person in city hall, normally after hours of waiting and expensive printing fees. Zoning processes remain opaque (applications for zoning exceptions being only available in person, and containing multiple self-contradicting instructions), and the process of trying to start a business - particularly an industrial or hospitality business - in Chicago remains highly dependent on the hiring of a suite of laywers, and wholely dependent on winning the approval of the local alderman.
As explained to me by a chief counsel in City Hall, many of the laws governing zoning and licensing processes in the City of Chicago remain an impenetrable nest of potentially unconstitutional legislation, a nest kept in place by entrenched webs of mayoral, aldermanic, business, and bureaucratic imperatives. The (highly Utopian) day that the process of applying for - not necessarily acquiring - a zoning variance or amusement license becomes understandable to people beyond lawyers and city-workers and broadcast to all potentially affected members of the public is a day when information has finally trumped public corruption.
HeaderFooter created a series of dynamic report templates for commercial property, allowing agents, developers, and investors to quickly and precisely compare properties, publish property marketing brochures, and generate multi-page reports for clients on potential commercial space.
Read more about the suite of report-generation tools here.
