Collaboration with Jason Fulford - Offline Activities is a book of 52 suggestions for things you can do in real life.
Hello, I’m Tamara, an illustrator, designer, author, cook, & New Yorker.
Here are the three wordy books I’ve written:
LaserWriter II, Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Mumbai, New York, Scranton
The links go
to FAQ websites that I designed not a bookstore.
♪ But they're available at your fav bookstore ♫
Also my brother, sister, and I run Shopsin’s restaurant.
My contact is: tshopsinwork (at) fastmail.com
Tailored selection of work upon request.
Sort of on instagram: @tshopsin
This website is new (still adding work & fixing typos), also Offline Activites is back in print after being sold out. Available at your fav book store. If you live in France → Ensemble is a nice place to order it.
Find ⚅ ⚀ random examples below:
Novelty tongue depressor
For The Serving Library & Clark art museum - uncrossword puzzle made with Jason Fulford - try it →here
For Open Magazine on the nostalgia of wooden racquets
Surfer spots for The New Yorker
Cacti Are People Too - fashion shoot for Zeit Magazine - photographs by Jason Fulford (after Kay Bell Reynal)
Family crest
Logo for Image Text Ithaca, MFA program and press dedicated to the intersection of writing and photography. Designed in collaboration with Jason Fulford.
For The New York Times
For The New Yorker - How Jokes Won The Election - a look at the humor of Trump
Book Club Activity Kit for Arbitrary Stupid Goal download →here
(print double-sided - short-edge and fold in half)
For GQ on the irony of the Winter Classic
Book trailers for Arbitrary Stupid Goal
Eat Me - published by Knopf - book design & photography in collaboration with Jason Fulford
Microsite for LaserWriter II - backend help from Taichi Aritomo - see it → here
For The New York Times
For The New York Times
For The New York Times - What if We All Vacationed at Home Again? (On vacationing locally)
For Flat Out
Halloween Spots for The New Yorker
Cheat sheet: 1. Citigroup center 2. Flatiron 3. Seagram 4. Chrysler 5. Empire state 6. AT&T (550 Madison) 7. One World Trade 8. UN
9. NYPL main branch 10. the Guggenhiem
Questionable Etiquette for Bon Appetit magazine
Brooks Headly's Fancy Desserts - published by W.W. Norton - book design & photography in collaboration with Jason Fulford
For Subsequence magazine
For Subsequence magazine
For Subsequence magazine
The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants - The Atlantic - collab. with Jason Fulford
For The Atlantic - collab. with Jason Fulford
For The Atlantic - Collab. with Jason Fulford
For The New Yorker
For The New York Times
On flash traders (and the men from mars) - The New York Times
Swimmer Spots for The New Yorker
Is this mic on?: A stand-up comedian wrestles with his country and his soul - The New York Times
Stop me if you've heard this - a history and philosophy of jokes. - The New York TimesBook Review
A Personalized Diet, Better Suited to You - on the role of genetics in eating - The New York Times
5 Year Diary, published by The Ice Plant - available at most stores including → McNally Jackson
On Slapshot
The New York Times commission to make an illo using: paintwithdonaldtrump.com
ForCanadian Business Magazine
Holiday card for Jack Spade
Dish towel for Judge John Hodgman
On the history of the term: "burnout" & how everyone is at the end of their rope rn - The New Yorker
On the pleasures of the Greek alphabet - The New Yorker
On Thomas Jefferson's slave ownership - The New York Times
Satire of Mickey Mouse imagined as a tortured artist - The Walrus
On geniuses that are assholes - The New York Times - AD: Matt Dorfman
Book Review of a female love story told in rhyming couplets - The New York Times
Winter Olympics Spots for The New Yorker
Book Review of whimsical obituaries - The New York Times
On shady student loans - The New York Times
Quarantine Culture Recommendation: Knitting - The New Yorker
Music to Endure the Coronavirus Quarantine - The New Yorker
On writting in a second langague - The New York Times
Murals and graphics for the ballpit room of The Color Factory
Writing advice on the art of what to leave out - The New Yorker
Prompt: Aether - The Walrus Magazine
Umbrella designed for The New Yorker Buy it → here.
Cat's Pajamas for The New Yorker x Sleepy Jones. Sold out.
Jigsaw puzzle designed for The New Yorker. A puzzle within a puzzle. Sold out.
Book cover for New Directions, collab. with Jason Fulford.
Novelty scarf. Fatty on one side, lean on the other.
Novelty "Count the Triangles" postcards.
Novelty Sew-In label.
Invite for an event celebrating my soon to be published book. Event cancelled due to Hurricane SANDY.
Novelty golf pencil.
Novelty reusable spare button.
Identity and website for Agenzia photo agency, see website → here.
"Pick-Up-Sticks" screensaver designed for O-R-G with David Reinfurt. Get it it → here.
Design work for Superiority Burger! Collaboration with Jason Fulford
C'est Le Pied I & II, published by The Ice Plant - early cartoons.
Arbitrary Stupid Goal , published by FSGxMCD - (paperback by Picador
buy it from your local book
store or from → my local book store.
LaserWriter II, published by FSG x MCD - (paperback by Picador) - NY Times Book Review → here. Also designed book's cover.
One-Bite Recipes - The New York Times Try 'em out - read in color→ here
The Summer Game, a small column/game that ran in The New York Times. Players included: Steve Martin, Miranda July, Hannibal Buress, Elif Batuman, and George Saunders. Read all the games→ here.
Homage to an Homage of an Homage - short essay on Luis Barragán and Josef Albers in Bulletins of the Serving Library Issue #11 Read the text→ here
FAQ Site for Mumbai New York Scranton → here
Mumbai New York Scranton, published by Scribner. The NY Times Book Review → here.
This Equals That - Children's book which teaches associative thinking and visual language. Created in collaboration with Jason Fulford using his archive of photos - published by Aperture.
Pancake Brunch at the Kadist to celebrate the cookbook: EAT ME. Video by Joseph del Pesco
A Pile of Leaves - published by Phaidon, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of a series of books for children about ways of seeing. Made with Jason Fulford.
Spots for The New Yorker
Was it the best gelato I'd ever tasted? Immersive story in The New York Times Magazine AD: Rachel Willey. Read the story →here.
Literal fish spots for The New Yorker
Front and back cover for Women's Market, a photo book by Tom Wood published by Stanley Barker
Visiting the Site of Reversible Destiny in Japan - Collaboration with Jason Fulford for Travel & Leisure - Edited by Peter Terzian
A trip through Chandigarh - Collaboration with Jason Fulford for Travel & Leisure - Edited by Flora Stubbs
A visit to Sea Ranch - Collaboration with Jason Fulford for Travel & Leisure - Edited by Flora Stubbs
Opener in The New Yorker Games Issue - collab with the Puzz & Games Department play via PDF → here
Back page of The New Times Book Review a visual review of David Berman's book Actual Air, read → here.
Art This Way published by Phaidon, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of a series of books for children about ways of seeing. Made with Jason Fulford.
Collaboration with Jason Fulford - Offline Activities is a book of 52 suggestions for things you can do in real life.
Series of "Special Occasion" cards for Tiffany & Co
AD: Renée Theriault, drawings animated by
Takehiko
Yasui
Find Colors - A book about colors with no colors. Made with Jason Fulford and published with The Whitney
Museum of Art and Phaidon
Book event for Mumbai New York Scranton with John Hodgman at the Strand
On Teddy Roosevelt's nature conservation - The New York Times
Redesign of Charles Portis' backlist for Abrams AD: Deb Wood
What Is This published by The Ice Plant
Resolving to Create a New You - story on The futility of New Year's resolutions - The New York Times
Book reveiw on the secret life of Leonardo da Vinci - The New Yorker
Design for S&P Lunch collaboration with Jason Fulford - handpainted logo, custom lettering, menus, cups, sandwich wrap...
Camp You-Name-It for The New Yorker Sketch Book
Swizzel Sticks for The HiHi Room - also a bubble wand
Signage and logotype for the photobook store Micamera
Blockee is a web app that helps ppl visualize improvements to their block. Made when I was a 2012 Code for America fellow with Jesse Bounds, Nick Doiron and Serena Wales.