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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02.03.12

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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02.02.12

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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02.01.12

So Noted: Logo Trends

[Laura Shore] According to Bill Gardner at logolounge.com, the recession hasn’t slowed the pace of new identities. Since 2008, nearly 35,000 new logos have been posted on the site. In his seventh annual trend report, Bill reports on surprisingly optimistic palettes for new identity work, and comments that Business may be slow, but it doesn’t have to be dull.

Bill categorizes fifteen major trends in his 2009 report. Several of them seem particularly “likely” for letterpress printing. One category, called “Monolgue,” involves a modular puzzle-piece approach to logo messaging; “Doily” is all about ruffles and flourishes of type and tracery; and  “Encrust,” my favorite, literally fuses words and image into one icon. To see examples of this year’s trends and check out archives of past years, visit logolounge.com. A running counter on the site lets us know that, as of this post, there are 110,531 logos to look at.

Logo Credits:  Airside, Airplot; Gesture Studio, Isaias Gil; Graphics & Designing Inc., MTK

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