Mark Addison Smith
@markaddisonsmith.bsky.social
Queer designer, SAIC Prof, paper enthusiast, collector, cat dad, husband, and eavesdropper behind You Look Like The Right Type, a 16-year archive of daily, overheard-conversation drawings. Opinions mine. linktr.ee/markaddisonsmith
Celebrity sighting / Carol Kane / Petterino's, Chicago
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Celebrity sighting / Carol Kane / Petterino's, Chicago
Great Thursday night screening of Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (Tajikistan, 2025) at The Chicago International Film Festival, with Iranian director Shahram Mokri & writer Nasim Ahmadpour in attendance...and a wild typographic campaign from Ogilvy Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Great Thursday night screening of Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (Tajikistan, 2025) at The Chicago International Film Festival, with Iranian director Shahram Mokri & writer Nasim Ahmadpour in attendance...and a wild typographic campaign from Ogilvy Chicago.
Found in my vintage files: Robert Redford, Playgirl, August 1976, unauthorized publicity photo on cover. 💜 his performances in Barefoot in the Park (1967) and All the President's Men (1976).
September 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Found in my vintage files: Robert Redford, Playgirl, August 1976, unauthorized publicity photo on cover. 💜 his performances in Barefoot in the Park (1967) and All the President's Men (1976).
Hairy Squared: part 2 > question, answer 💙💜 / You Look Like The Right Type / September 7, 2025 / What did she say? / I love a gay man. / Renegade Craft Fair, Wicker Park, Chicago
September 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hairy Squared: part 2 > question, answer 💙💜 / You Look Like The Right Type / September 7, 2025 / What did she say? / I love a gay man. / Renegade Craft Fair, Wicker Park, Chicago
Hairy Squared: 2 different speakers, 2 different days💥💥 / You Look Like The Right Type / August 17 + June 24, 2025 / Apparently, I have a thing for gray beards. / You have a very sexy radio voice right now. / Edgewater + Rogers Park, Chicago
September 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hairy Squared: 2 different speakers, 2 different days💥💥 / You Look Like The Right Type / August 17 + June 24, 2025 / Apparently, I have a thing for gray beards. / You have a very sexy radio voice right now. / Edgewater + Rogers Park, Chicago
More Omega Music / Dayton, Ohio
July 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
More Omega Music / Dayton, Ohio
Omega Music / Dayton, Ohio
July 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Omega Music / Dayton, Ohio
From the excellent $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives show at the Getty / The beginning (book spread) / poem by Constantine Cavafy, illustrated with copperplate etching by David Hockney, London, 1967
July 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
From the excellent $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives show at the Getty / The beginning (book spread) / poem by Constantine Cavafy, illustrated with copperplate etching by David Hockney, London, 1967
Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
July 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
Shout-out to queer writer, filmmaker, and artist Jean Cocteau on his birthday today, July 5, 1889. And shout-out to Sarah Reed of Hollywood, who read this copy of my (used) book 64 years ago (bottom-right inscription).
July 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Shout-out to queer writer, filmmaker, and artist Jean Cocteau on his birthday today, July 5, 1889. And shout-out to Sarah Reed of Hollywood, who read this copy of my (used) book 64 years ago (bottom-right inscription).
💜💙 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 18, 2025 / No one thinks we're work partners. / Juneau, Alaska / Happy Pride 2025
June 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
💜💙 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 18, 2025 / No one thinks we're work partners. / Juneau, Alaska / Happy Pride 2025
💛 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 17, 2025 / I gotta go see if I can find six more clown noses for the show. / photographed with "Nimbus," Robert Murray, painted aluminum, 1978 / Alaska State Museum, Juneau
June 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
💛 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 17, 2025 / I gotta go see if I can find six more clown noses for the show. / photographed with "Nimbus," Robert Murray, painted aluminum, 1978 / Alaska State Museum, Juneau
💥 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 13, 2025 / Will Hamlet avenge his father's death? Will Vladimir and Estragon continue to wait for Godot? / People need to do and stop complaining and how do they choose to do? / Valdez, Alaska
June 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
💥 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 13, 2025 / Will Hamlet avenge his father's death? Will Vladimir and Estragon continue to wait for Godot? / People need to do and stop complaining and how do they choose to do? / Valdez, Alaska
💙 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 2, 2025 / I used to be boyish / Chicago
June 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
💙 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 2, 2025 / I used to be boyish / Chicago
HAPPY PRIDE / You Look Like The Right Type / May 30, 2025 / It has to do with community and solidarity and creating mass movements and the queer creed—WE KEEP US SAFE—and the trans creed—WE KEEP US SAFE. / I've lived all over and I always come back here. / Lilly Wachowski, Music Box Theatre, Chicago
June 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
HAPPY PRIDE / You Look Like The Right Type / May 30, 2025 / It has to do with community and solidarity and creating mass movements and the queer creed—WE KEEP US SAFE—and the trans creed—WE KEEP US SAFE. / I've lived all over and I always come back here. / Lilly Wachowski, Music Box Theatre, Chicago
TAG SOMEONE YOU LOVE / You Look Like The Right Type / May 11, 2025 / You got more issues than People Magazine. / Chicago
May 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TAG SOMEONE YOU LOVE / You Look Like The Right Type / May 11, 2025 / You got more issues than People Magazine. / Chicago
Muncie, Indiana! From left to right: William, Frank, Lucius (seated), Edmund, and George.
May 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Muncie, Indiana! From left to right: William, Frank, Lucius (seated), Edmund, and George.
You Look Like The Right Type / April 13, 2025 / My husband wishes he had that kind of hair on his chest. / Burbank, California
April 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
You Look Like The Right Type / April 13, 2025 / My husband wishes he had that kind of hair on his chest. / Burbank, California
You Look Like The Right Type / April 7, 2025 / She says that printed matter is a community act. / Chicago
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You Look Like The Right Type / April 7, 2025 / She says that printed matter is a community act. / Chicago
More Sunday edits! (Hopefully, last round.) New #YouLookLikeTheRightType book coming soon—something for the gorgeous gays and quintessential queers.
Throwback: June 15, 2014 / Saturday / A little bit of peach fuzz here / Harlem, New York
Throwback: June 15, 2014 / Saturday / A little bit of peach fuzz here / Harlem, New York
April 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
More Sunday edits! (Hopefully, last round.) New #YouLookLikeTheRightType book coming soon—something for the gorgeous gays and quintessential queers.
Throwback: June 15, 2014 / Saturday / A little bit of peach fuzz here / Harlem, New York
Throwback: June 15, 2014 / Saturday / A little bit of peach fuzz here / Harlem, New York
Burbank boyfriend / Burbank, CA
April 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Burbank boyfriend / Burbank, CA
Lunch with Andy / Cahuenga General Store, North Hollywood, CA
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Lunch with Andy / Cahuenga General Store, North Hollywood, CA
Sally sighting / Atomic Records, Burbank, CA / @atomicrecords.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Sally sighting / Atomic Records, Burbank, CA / @atomicrecords.bsky.social
Forget your troubles, come on, get happy / Iliad Bookshop, North Hollywood, CA
April 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Forget your troubles, come on, get happy / Iliad Bookshop, North Hollywood, CA