Redesign high school? Here’s an award that welcomes innovation

[Tom Biederbeck] What high school student doesn’t have ideas about how to make school better? Putting those ideas into a positive context is School: By Design, a new award from Design Ignites Change and Designers Accord that asks high school students — with their college and professional design mentors — to “redesign your school.” In support, the Mohawk Feedback Loop Notebook project launches today on Felt & Wire Shop with a spectacular array of unique letterpress notebooks.

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09.08.10

ThirdBay’s “Print Is Alive” poster is a tour de force in letterpress

[Tom Biederbeck] An exceptional creative achievement, a particularly adroit maneuver, a difficult feat: The definition of tour de force — perfectly describing the masterful poster produced by Martin Venezky and ThirdBay Letterpress. Here, I talk with ThirdBay’s proprietor Jeff Towner about the printing dimension of the project … and unexpectedly get an education in letterpress.

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09.07.10

Destination GAIN: Where Stanley Hainsworth’s heading for (re)invention

[Stanley Hainsworth] When Kenna Kay and I were asked to co-chair the 2010 AIGA GAIN conference, we looked at ourselves and said, “As fellow designers let’s ensure this conference will be something people will anticipate with excitement, experience irresistibly, and walk away from inspired, motivated and determined to make some changes.”

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09.03.10

So Noted: Landfill

[Laura Shore] Okay. I have to admit I’m a sucker for idea-driven design. Great ideas – appropriately executed – tend to live on and change the way we think about things. The first annual issue of “Landfill”, by Brian Ponto and Greg Barber, is billed as a “post-consumer publication.” The project is a meditation on second chances – but also on paper, print communication, and renewal.

After talking about the impact of paper and print on landfills, the organizers presented 13 stories they’d collected of second chances: from a young woman who moved across the country, to a cancer survivor. Their stories were printed using non-toxic toner on paper pressed with flower seeds and buried. Rather than become landfill, these stories would become part of a new cycle of life. The results were photographed and chronicled on the web and in a small book digitally printed by Greg Barber on an HP Indigo, using Mohawk Options PC 100. Big idea. Great stories. No waste. High impact. What a great way to use print!

05.8.09

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