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

A swell Decibel from Volume

Our design friends at Volume in San Francisco are offering a really cool poster history of the San Francisco music scene to 100 people who say “Thanks” by mail. This is fresh news — partners Adam Brodsley and Eric Heiman broadcast this deal just yesterday, in their terrific occasional newsletter, the Decibel (dB).

Says Volume, “We’re offering a signed, limited-edition 22 x 30 ‘SF Sound’ poster, which is a visual history of Bay Area music designed for a recent McSweeny’s project, San Francisco Panorama. The poster is printed by the printing Olympians at Blanchette Press on the super-duper Mohawk Superfine paper.

“The premise is simple, if a little backwards: mail us a handcrafted thank-you note for the poster, and we’ll send the poster to you. Don’t forget to include the address to which you want it shipped! Many will enter, only 100 will win, as we only have so many posters. So get cranking! Every thank you note we receive will be featured on our dedicated THANK YOU site and prominently displayed in the Volume studio.”

Mail your handcrafted thank you to:
Volume Inc.
2130 Harrison St., Suite B
San Francisco, CA  94110.[

[L.S.]

Felt & Wire’s own Alyson Kuhntributor plans to invite herself over to Volume to see (and describe) the thank-you notes from postal and politesse perspectives.

02.21.10

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