Ted Bertz: Posterized impressions from the Durham Fair

[Ted Bertz] After recently finishing a personal project, a book commemorating posters completed from 1987 to 2008 for an agricultural fair held each year in Durham, Conn. — Fair Play: Twenty-three years of Durham Fair Posters — Ted Bertz, founder of Bertz Design Group, reflects on the evolution of the graphic design industry over the same period.

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Rachel Hazell, The Travelling Bookbinder, crosses the Pond

[Alyson Kuhn] Rachel Hazell is a book artist and have-punch-will-travel teacher of book arts. London-born Hazell, who currently lives in Edinburgh, has grand plans for 2012. She is scheduling a bookbinding workshop in a different part of the world each month. January’s was in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire; March’s will be on the Summer Isles in Northwest Scotland. And February’s — aptly titled Colour of Love — begins today in the Napa Valley. I’ll be right there — writing about paper engineering, stitching and all things Valentinear.

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Food, in print: Appreciating Lucky Peach

[Tom Biederbeck] Lucky Peach magazine has serious (and seriously funny) writing about food, lavish original illustrations, swell diversions and inserts (issue #2 has a sheet of parody fruit stickers), no online content, no advertising (well, very little) and curious art direction choices (on its cover, issue #1 displayed the south end of a northbound chicken). And it’s wildly successful.

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So Noted: FPO

[Laura Shore] We were sorry to learn a few weeks back that Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit had closed down their blog, Speak Up. For the past few years, Speak Up was like the water cooler we never had, with gossip, stories, and lively conversation about design.

How surprised we were to open up Facebook and see Armin and Bryony back with a NEW blog dedicated to the art of PRINT! Why print? In searching for a point of view that would work in a world where everyone is an author and fewer people are readers, the editors, “looked at topics that interested us or that we knew enough about and topics that were perhaps under-explored online. We settled on the world of print — what better dichotomy than a web-based blog for print only?”

The site is just getting started and is a bit thin on content at the moment, so head on over and submit your work and start commenting. We hope maybe they’ll mention paper from time to time ….

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