[Tom Biederbeck] What high school student doesn’t have ideas about how to make school better? Putting those ideas into a positive context is School: By Design, a new award from Design Ignites Change and Designers Accord that asks high school students — with their college and professional design mentors — to “redesign your school.” In support, the Mohawk Feedback Loop Notebook project launches today on Felt & Wire Shop with a spectacular array of unique letterpress notebooks.
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Next year’s cheer from kate spade new york[Alyson Kuhn] Well, 2009 was a big techno-year for me: I retired my Filofax, got a new laptop, learned to use iCal, bought an iPhone. Next year, I will also decoratively document my days on my kate spade new york desk agenda and companion wall calendar. They are pretty, they are witty, they are Superfine! Furthermore >
Make ThinkWe’re in Memphis at Make/Think, the AIGA design conference. Alyissa Walker is live blogging all about it at makethink.withgelatobaby.com. We are reposting her feature stories right here, for you all week long. 
Sunny stationery for The Walt Disney Family Museum[Alyson Kuhn] The Walt Disney Family Museum opened in San Francisco’s Presidio on October 1. Emdash has put the Museum’s mark, created by Pentagram, on an identity system that is simple, elegant, and letterpress printed in sunflower yellow. 
Felt & Wire Shop: Curated Paper Goods[Alyson Kuhn] It’s launch day for Felt & Wire Shop, a cool collection of paper-based products. The goods have been created by designers across the country – some old Mohawk friends, some new finds. The key to its charm bracelet is that it’s carefully curated. You could think of it as Vetsy. Furthermore >
Papery pleasures: San Francisco[Alyson Kuhn] My Connecticut colleagues, Pam and Kim, were in town a couple of weeks ago, and we spent a long morning devoted to esthetic enrichment. I went to some of my favorite spots, but also arranged to visit Atelier Gargoyle, where I’d never been. To say the Atelier received our seal of highest approval would be an understatement and a pun. Furthermore >
Impressed by letterpress[Tom Biederbeck] Mystery, history and the hands-on appeal of letterpress were in evidence last Saturday at the opening of Impressed by Design: Letterpress in the Heartland. The exhibition is also an homage to the home community of designer Steve Hartman, who conceived this unusual show at the Edwardsville Art Center. Furthermore > |
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] Furthermore >
03.11.10
John Bielenberg has made a career of “thinking wrong.” He created Project M to inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and other creative people to see that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world. Furthermore >
03.10.10
On Thursday March 25, from 6–9 p.m., contributors to the blog printeresting.org will host a reception at Philadelphia creative collaboration Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. “COPY JAM!” will coincide with Mark/Remarque, the 2010 conference of SGC Philadephia, and the city-wide festival Philagrafika 2010. [LS] Furthermore >
03.09.10
Welcoming letterpress printers of all experience levels and specializations: from commercial printers to fine-press printers, zine makers to retail stationers. Ladies of Letterpress, founded in 2009 by Kseniya Thomas of Thomas-Printers and Jessica White of Heroes and Criminals Press, provides a community for the many new letterpress printers starting up every year. Members come together online to learn from one another, share resources and ideas, and at the same time keep letterpress a thriving, exciting and multifaceted art and craft. Furthermore >
03.08.10
Be still, my arty heart. I’m clicking deliriously through a brilliant collection of postage stamps by type designers! Once again, someone has sent me a link to a site I cannot believe I had not known about. What a find, via my fine philatelic friend Cheryl Ganz, chief curator of Philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. [AK] Furthermore >
03.05.10
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