Creative Chain: Connecting creatives one link at a time, week four

[Emily Potts] Last week we were inspired by three amazing artists: Henning Wagenbreth, Sophie Dutertre and Placid. In keeping with the French artist theme, I’m starting off this week’s Creative Chain with an illustrator I deeply admire and respect.

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05.16.12

Mohawk Show 12: Submit to Your Love Affair With Paper

[Kim Rogala] As the Mohawk Show 12 entry deadline approaches (May 31st, so hurry and enter!) we wanted to direct your attention to the Show’s materials that were created by the team at Tether. We asked Stanley Hainsworth, founder and chief creative officer of Tether, to tell us a little about his thoughts behind the designs.

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05.15.12

Sitting pretty with PLANEfurniture

[Alyson Kuhn] Michael Boyd, designer of the PLANEfurniture line, collects modernist furniture, art, architecture and design books, and ephemera. Last year, he decided to create a line of modernist-inspired furniture that “makes you think, holds your body, eases your mind, and sits well within your budget.” That’s a quote from the jacket flap of PLANEfurniture: types + prototypes, designed by Mick Hodgson of Ph.D, A Design Office. I recently sat in some of the furniture and can confirm that it is quite user-friendly.

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05.14.12

Live, from Lincoln, it’s Saturday night at Porridge Papers!

Porridge Papers in Lincoln, Neb., is hosting an incredible party this Saturday, Aug. 20. If you love paper goods and live within driving distance, drive on down or up or over. If you are me, and just visited Porridge Papers for the first time two days ago, you truly are thinkin’, “I wish I could stay in Lincoln!” Here’s the skinny and the slurry.

Porridge Papers founder Christopher James in the newly redesigned shop

Porridge Papers is a papermill, letterpress studio and nicely curated retail shop. I don’t know if I can still call the enterprise a brainchild, since Porridge Papers celebrated its 16th birthday two years ago. Samantha McCullough and founder Christopher James specialize in making paper with plantable seeds in it. Felt & Wire will take our readers on a very insider tour of Porridge Papers in an upcoming feature … but today we focus on this coming Saturday’s pulp ’n’ lead fest. Guess who the guest of honor will be?

Kyle Durrie of Power & Light Press, from Portland, Ore., is driving her type truck to Lincoln. She funded Moveable Type — her fully functional letterpress print shop built into the back of a converted 1982 Chevy step van — on Kickstarter (raising more than twice her goal!). Porridge Papers is gifting Moveable Type a colorful supply of their handmade paper to take on the road with her. At the party, Durrie will, of course, be printing curbside. (She sets a unique piece to print at each “truckstop.”)

Local screenprinter Jason Davis of Screen Ink will silkscreen T-shirts right at the party. Guests can buy a tee, designed by Porridge Press to commemorate Moveable Type’s stop in Lincoln. T-shirt sales will fund subsequent stops on Moveable Type’s wild ride around the country. Yes, the T-shirt’s dashing design features a map — and a tasteful list of the evening’s local sponsors. Yiayia’s Pizza is providing pies; Kristin Rozsa of thé Cup is contributing cupcakes; and microbrewery Modern Monks is pouring liquid refreshment.

Join the crème de la creative crème at the Porridge Papers party. Say yea or yay on Facebook.

Newest fan: Alyson Kuhn chats with Christopher James. [AK]

Photos: Type on press, Christopher James; all others, Julie Salestrom, Omaha & Lincoln tour guide extraordinaire.

08.17.11
  1. Posted by johanna on 08.17.11 at 12:15 pm

    really wish i could go… lincoln is my hometown, but i now live in atlanta. would love to see the improvements and the type truck!

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