Welcome!
Welcome to LetterEngineer.com! I am elated to share my work with you.

This site is still in its infancy. Currently, only a quarter of the artwork I hope to have online is posted. If you like what you see, please check in from time to time for more art and always feel free to contact me at brandonblake1@gmail.com.

My Threadless Submission is in the Running!

I submitted a t-shirt design with much help from my friend Jessica Speigel called "i can be anything i want to be" to Threadless.com to be voted on and hopefully printed. I have never had this kind of chance before!!! If I get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and sold from the site. Take a look at it here and if you like it, sign up (takes only a second) to give it a score (please please please!). Thank you everyone for taking the time to do this. I really appreciate all of your support over the years for my art. This is the moment that really counts. Scoring ends on Sunday 18th so please spread the love and forward this to everyone you can. This is my shot! Much love to you all and thank you all for checking it out! Please vote here!

Art Show 2/4 through 3/1 at Hillel
My artwork is going to be displayed at Jewish Arts month from February 4th through March 1st at Hillel at the University of Washington (4745 17th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98105). Visit any time to see the work or come on February 4th at 6:30 for a wine and cheese reception. I'll be there talking about the pieces! From the show:

Brandon Blake, also known as Letter Engineer, is a calligrapher/graffiti artist/ pre-school teacher who aims to challenge the boundaries of the kind of art that is deemed acceptable in specific communities. In this show, Brandon presents three pieces that demonstrate the flexibility of the Arabic written word.

“Unfortunately not every Jew or Muslim that looks at my art will be impressed. Some may have a hard time accepting a Jewish-Arabic calligrapher. It is media, bias, and cultural separation that trick the brain into perceiving Islamic art as not suited to be in a Jewish institution’s art show. We Jews should be the ones pushing for its inclusion. It is symbolic."

"If we don’t start the ball rolling between our communities, who will? It is our moral obligation to embrace, not defile.”

“It is my goal to have people drop this seperationism and let art speak for the beauty of itself. At the end of the day, that’s what it is. Art. Just enjoy it.”

http://www.jconnectseattle.org/?site=jconnect&page=page&name=Jewish+Arts