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

Guest Post: Bierut to New York, Drop Dead

[Richard Shear] Last Friday, mischief night, and the moon was full, the Yankees had the night off, and the new AIGA Metro-North chapter celebrated its first year by hosting a special Halloween Dead Brands evening in Sleepy Hollow, home of Washington Irving’s famous legend of Ichabod Crane, the Connecticut schoolmaster, and his escape from the headless horseman.

An inmate from the Tropicana Department of Brand Corrections {Joe Cuticone}, artist Frida Kahlo {Sarah Ficca}, a Pan Am stewardess {Lee Moody}, and a Bear Stearns trader {Rob Sivitilli} were among those who joined guest of honor Michael Bierut. Each was given an award for their costume at the event.

This new AIGA chapter is dedicated to advancing the discipline of world-class branding – brand creation, management, and evolution – that is designed to optimize and sustain competitive advantage of organizations, products, and services over time. Hence the notion of celebrating Dead Brands the night before Halloween.

Michael, who lives in the village along the Hudson, spoke of the “Seven Dead Brands of Sleepy Hollow.” These brands included Washington Irving, Old Croton Aqueduct, Maxwell-Briscoe Company, Kraft Fudgies, Pocantico Expressway, Gory Brook Road, and Village of North Tarrytown.

He ended his talk with an announcement, met with universal acclaim, that he is moving his local AIGA chapter affiliation from the New York chapter to the Metro-North chapter. And we have him on tape!

The evening was sponsored by Sterling Brands, Lucid Brands and the new Masters of Professional Studies in Branding at the School of Visual Arts.

Photography: Scott Lerman

11.2.09
  1. Posted by Scott Lerman on 11.2.09 at 10:02 pm

    See all the photos and view the videos at:

    http://aigadeadbrands2009.shutterfly.com/

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