Exploring typography: Behind the scenes with author and educator Carolina de Bartolo

[Carolina de Bartolo] One day several years ago (before I wrote my book, Explorations in Typography), a student in my Typography 2 class informed me — in a rather secretive and incredulous manner — that a fellow student in another instructor’s section had not been assigned to do “Explorations,” the typography exercises I’d devised to teach typesetting to my students. I replied that I was not at all surprised as Explorations were my own invention for my own students in my own classes but, her very memorable response to me was: “But how else would you learn it?!”

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It’s the size that counts

It might be the smallest mailable size, but it packs a big punch. #4 Baronials, which we’ve celebrated before, are perfect as RSVP cards and thank you notes, but why limit them? The 3.625 × 5.125-in. envelope is sized just right to showcase a great stamp, like the new Pioneers of American Industrial Design (shown), while taking the opportunity to say a quick hello to someone — perfect for when you don’t have the time to write more than a few words.

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Telling Nike’s story

[Sami Jensen] Nike is always doing something newsworthy, whether it’s creating a game-changing new sneaker or sponsoring a major sporting event, like this week’s US Open of Surfing in Huntingon Beach, Cal. Our keen, paper-lovin’ eyes have also observed the company’s never-ending supply of beautiful marketing collateral, so we had to ask … who are the designers behind Nike?

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Floral patterns in an age of cultural exchange

In the late 19th century, the discovery by European artists of the long Japanese tradition of woodblock prints — including the famed ukiyo-e, “pictures of the floating world” — sparked the Art Nouveau movement. Le Japon Artistique: Japanese Floral Pattern Design in the Art Nouveau Era is a new release from Chronicle Books that handsomely depicts this fascinating episode in cultural cross-pollination.

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Judith Berliner of Full Circle Press … comes full circle again

[Alyson Kuhn] When Judith Berliner opened her letterpress shop in California’s Sierra foothills (Elev: 3000 ft.) in 1991, she didn’t know any other female letterpress printers. How fabulously fitting that she will deliver the keynote address at the first Ladies of Letterpress conference, convening this weekend (August 5–7) in Asheville, N. C. Over 1000 ladies now belong to the organization — and several dozen laddies as well.

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