Old project in my old studio out on Yosemite street in the San Francisco Bay View area. – I bought up a ton of oval wooden boxes and painted the outside. (and inside) – Here they are, on my table in the studio. ~>
Color xerox copies of the box lids below ~>
A few other studio shots. I was working on an acrylic painting, on canvas.
The shot below was taken on an open studio day. Not sure what year.
I was asked by a rug manufacturer in Italy years ago if I would be interested in letting them make a hand-tufted wool rug with one of my designs. – I of course said “yes” and so here are a few photos from the project. Published in White magazine. ~Italy.
When I had a painting and design business years ago I would draw designs out on velum or thin tracing paper and then transfer the image on to a canvas or wall – whatever surface it was painted on. I sometimes used transfer paper or rubbed graphite on the back of the drawing and then re-traced the image.
This is what other panels of the paintings looked liked in progress. The color images were scanned from older color prints. Pre-digital cameras.

I designed the white square window decals that ran along the entire length of Metreon when it was owned by Sony, on it’s 4th street side.
It covered up the original digital graphics that was once the Airtight Garage branding.
Rod Cavazos, the Principal at PSY/OPS & Adjunct Professor at CCA in San Francisco has some of the most fun fonts on the web. . . . Rod says “Hi, we’re PSY/OPS Type Foundry, a creative studio dedicated to typeface design and alphabetic innovation. We build typefaces all day long — and occasionally all night long. Our primary commissions are for tech giants and manufacturers, game developers and print publishers, as well as other foundries and design firms. We also love teaming up on more personal / experimental / academic projects. The quirkier and more challenging the better. Between client engagements, we work on fonts for our own eclectic library.”
A few years ago, well maybe more than a few years ago, Rod Gave me some fonts to have fun with and I spent more than a few weeks adding them to some digital artworks I was making at the same time.
Rick Pirman photos and design ~ past and present
Painted projects from past years