[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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In seminar, Yale students’ imaginations are fueled by shopping lists[Susan L. Gonzalez] For her fall freshman seminar “Studies in Visual Biography,” Jessica Helfand gave her students a unique assignment: to “re-invent” a person based on a real-life shopping list, one that was abandoned by its maker and later found by someone else. The grocery lists were taken from Bill Keaggy’s online collection of more than 2000 such lists written on scraps of paper. The eight freshmen were asked to write a paragraph describing the list-maker and then create a collage that illustrates some aspect of his or her life. Furthermore >
Brady Vest of Hammerpress gives a guest a great type of tour[Alyson Kuhn] Earlier this week, we showed you around the retail shop at Hammerpress. Today, we take you through the double doors into the pressroom, where letterpress love blends endlessly with vintage loot, most of it perfectly artfully arranged. Furthermore >
Hammerpress: Fresh as a snow cone & genuinely original[Alyson Kuhn] Hammerpress in Kansas City has been on our letterpress radar for years. I’ve bought their cards, admired their posters, savored their e-blasts, and so wished I could go to one of their “First Fridays” for an artisanal snow cone and some artful browsing. And, finally, I detoured directly from the Ladies of Letterpress conference in Asheville, N.C. … to Hammerpress. Straight from the airport. It’s true. Furthermore >
Don’t miss Mail Call on CBS Sunday Morning[Alyson Kuhn] We just heard from our friends at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum that a crew from CBS came by earlier this week to see the new exhibition, Mail Call. The footage they shot will be featured in a news piece this Sunday morning (Dec. 11) about enterprises that ship packages to our troops overseas. If we were producing the segment, we would call it “Hope for the Holidays.” Furthermore >
Destination: Roam Rome with Zig, Zag & your kids[Sami Jensen] Taking inspiration from her background as a child globe-trotter, Alana Zawojski seeks to create travel guides just for kids. Noting the lack of children-centered travel publications, Zawojski created ZigZag City Guides, designed to get children excited about traveling … rather than distracting them from experiencing new places. When we saw her project on Kickstarter, we reached out to learn more about the project, and how she hopes to reach her goal of $6500 to print the first round of guides to Rome. Furthermore >
Fingerprint 2: The touch of the hand in contemporary design[Tom Biederbeck] Further testimony of the power of the handmade in art and design, Fingerprint 2 is Chen Design Associates’ sequel to their 2006 book, Fingerprint. This transfixing follow-up takes the concept a step further into digital terrain. And for paper-lovers, the geography of Fingerprint 2 is an Eden of imagery in print. I spoke with studio principal and creative director Josh Chen and Kathrin Blatter, lead designer on the book, about the art, the artists and the process of creation. Furthermore > |
We can’t get enough of Pantone’s Color of the Year. Tangerine Tango is bold, energizing and inspires us to look forward. Many Felt & Wire Shop sellers are already ahead of the trend. Here’s a great collection to freshen your new year. [MD]
01.10.12
Kristy McTaggart, stationery designer and founder of Artiface, is just as paper-obsessed as we are. She reached out to us and sent along her latest creation, a boxed baby shower invite featuring a sweet little diecut umbrella. Furthermore >
01.09.12
What happens when modern technology meets historic printing processes? Tricia Treacy and Ashley John Pigford explore this in a collaborative Vista Sans Wood Type Project, now showing at the College Book Art Association Conference in San Francisco. Furthermore >
01.07.12
Felt & Wire Shop curator Allyson Van Houten has been selected to jury the 24th Annual LOUIE Awards — which recognize creative excellence within the greeting card and social stationery industry. Allyson joins a panel of 16 well-respected industry judges including representatives from influential retailers such as Paper Source, Kate’s Paperie and Barnes & Noble; industry professionals from Hallmark and American Greetings; and editors from Oh So Beautiful Paper, HOW Magazine and Stationery Trends. For more information on the LOUIEs, visit GreetingCard.org and click the LOUIE logo. [MD]
01.06.12
When Pantone selected the Color of the Year, they didn’t think of it as “the hot fashion color, but an expression of a mood, an attitude, on the part of the consumers.” So said Leatrice Eiseman today in the New York Times. Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute is the co-author of PANTONE: The 20th Century in Color. See Felt & Wire’s interview with her here. Take a look at Felt & Wire Shop’s curated collection in honor of Pantone’s Color of the Year. [MD]
01.05.12
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