Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Emeryville Cool Fun Booklet

2023 · Digital offset and Risograph, saddle-stitched, 48 pages

A booklet collecting all nine issues of my anonymous Risograph-printed newsletter Emeryville Cool Fun Facts, distributed on utility poles and bus shelters throughout Emeryville during the early pandemic. Topics ranged from train derailments to trans pioneers, from canneries to goats. This edition includes a new tenth issue featuring reader feedback, along with photo documentation of the project in situ and a full-color centerfold showing what the original newsletters looked like.

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From the introduction:

One thing I miss about pre-Internet times is public communication through handmade flyers, stapled to poles on the street. I channeled that energy through Emeryville Cool Fun Facts: my own contribution to public space for both personal and communal purposes. This project helped me better understand my city and the people who live here, and I’m happy it brought others unexpected joy during a particularly dark time.

Gabe Meline of KQED included it in his roundup of “8 of the Coolest Things We Saw at the SF Art Book Fair” in 2024. He described the newsletters as “insightful, chatty and often hilarious” and noted, “I brought it home and devoured it in one sitting.”

Published by Current Edtions -> Available

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Emeryville Cool Fun Booklet
By Jessalyn Aaland

Research, original publications, and design direction by Jessalyn Aaland
Graphic design by Paul Morgan

Digital offset and Risograph, saddle-stitched
6 × 9 inches, 48 pages

2023, 500 copies
Published by Current Editions

Collections: Tufts University, Tisch Library, Medford, MA

Jessalyn Aaland

Emeryville Cool Fun Booklet

2023 · Digital offset and Risograph, saddle-stitched, 48 pages

A booklet collecting all nine issues of my anonymous Risograph-printed newsletter Emeryville Cool Fun Facts, distributed on utility poles and bus shelters throughout Emeryville during the early pandemic. Topics ranged from train derailments to trans pioneers, from canneries to goats. This edition includes a new tenth issue featuring reader feedback, along with photo documentation of the project in situ and a full-color centerfold showing what the original newsletters looked like.

Continue Reading

From the introduction:

One thing I miss about pre-Internet times is public communication through handmade flyers, stapled to poles on the street. I channeled that energy through Emeryville Cool Fun Facts: my own contribution to public space for both personal and communal purposes. This project helped me better understand my city and the people who live here, and I’m happy it brought others unexpected joy during a particularly dark time.

Gabe Meline of KQED included it in his roundup of “8 of the Coolest Things We Saw at the SF Art Book Fair” in 2024. He described the newsletters as “insightful, chatty and often hilarious” and noted, “I brought it home and devoured it in one sitting.”

Published by Current Edtions -> Available

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Jessalyn Aaland

Emeryville Cool Fun Booklet
By Jessalyn Aaland

Research, original publications, and design direction by Jessalyn Aaland
Graphic design by Paul Morgan

Digital offset and Risograph, saddle-stitched
6 × 9 inches, 48 pages

2023, 500 copies
Published by Current Editions

Collections: Tufts University, Tisch Library, Medford, MA

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