[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.

[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.