Pentagram partner Matt Willey is the founding art director of style magazine Port, adventure magazine Avaunt and the hotly anticipated literary magazine Inque, due to launch in 2021 after a Kickstarter campaign.
Willey regularly engages in self-initiated and charitable projects: sales of his original digital typefaces raise money for The Bail Project, and he has donated fonts to BuyFontsSaveLives.
He also has a fondness for print. For his contribution to ‘19 Artists vs Covid-19’ (19vs19), Willey looked to the contents of his Brooklyn home for inspiration and considered the role a physical poster could adopt during the Coronavirus pandemic. He conceived his contribution to the project as a hand-painted sign that could be nailed to a fence.
Willey says: ‘It’s painted on two back-panels from an Ikea cupboard we’d just taken out of my son’s bedroom, using an old can of base primer and my kids’ gouaches. I’ve been trying to do work away from the computer, on the kitchen table. It’s fun. And messy!’