On the wire: Chandra Greer visits one-of-a-kind Campbell Raw Press

[Chandra Greer] Campbell Raw Press is a design studio run by Maggie Campbell and her husband Matt Raw out of their Brooklyn home. Maggie creates beautiful hand-bound books as well as letterpress cards and invitations. She’s the mother of a darling little girl who inspires her every day. And she inspires us with her meticulous talent, positive energy and ability to juggle a million things while always keeping her family at the top of the list.

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02.06.12

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

Design Ignites Change awards grants

Design Ignites Change, a collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices and Worldstudio, has announced its inaugural 2009 Implementation Award winners. This biannual award program recognizes exceptional proposals for design intended to make the world a better place. Winners receive financial support to realize their visions. [LS]

The grand prize goes to Pecans!, a budding pecan product enterprise led by low income youth in Hale County, Ala. The project was awarded $12,000 to serve as capital to get the business off the ground. In second place, with a grant of $2400, is A Book by its Cover: Reading Stereotypes, a project that aims to counter racism by fostering positive meaningful connections between Arab and non-Arab students in Kansas City, Mo. Third place goes to Freewall: Making Space for Diversity, an effort to creatively repurpose wall space at Center Alternative School, also in Kansas City.

03.11.10

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