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

Sonnenzimmer’s poster shines for STA

We recently featured the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) Archive10 competition, complete with a memorable identity created by our friends at Grip Design. Now take a look at this Archive10 celebration poster created by two more of our favorite artists — Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi of Chicago studio Sonnenzimmer.

The poster was created as a special presentation for the first 120 people who enter the Archive10 competition. The 18 x 24-in. poster is printed in nine screens on Mohawk Loop Smooth, Sage, 80# cover. It’s packed with fluorescent inks, geometric pachinko forms and a classic, Sonnenzimmer-clean typographic treatment.

Between Sonnenzimmer and the STA there appears to be mutual love. “When we researched the work in the STA’s Chicago Design Archive, we were amazed by the wide array of great design there,” says Nakanishi. “We’re thrilled to help celebrate Archive10.”

Get an entry form to Archive10 here. And in case you’re wondering, Sonnenzimmer is sun room in German. [TB]

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