[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.
Furthermore >
|
[Tom Biederbeck] An exceptional creative achievement, a particularly adroit maneuver, a difficult feat: The definition of tour de force — perfectly describing the masterful poster produced by Martin Venezky and ThirdBay Letterpress. Here, I talk with ThirdBay’s proprietor Jeff Towner about the printing dimension of the project … and unexpectedly get an education in letterpress. Furthermore >Drawing inspiration from their collection of 19th and 20th century wood and metal type, borders, ornaments and printing presses, Smart & Wiley crafts fine contemporary print goods with a wink and a nod to the past. Furthermore >[Tom Biederbeck] “Print Is Alive!” proclaims this letterpress poster, by Martin Venezky of Appetite Engineers and printers Jeff Towner and Jim Wehlage of Third Bay Letterpress. Venezky’s account of their collaboration reveals the creative process behind this remarkable artist and designer. Click further to see the full poster. Furthermore >[Alyson Kuhn] To say that The Society of Typographic Aficionados annual conference “took place” last week in Los Angeles is like saying the parting of the Red Sea “took place” in Egypt — not exactly the sort of rhetorical device we are known for. TypeCon 2010 was aptly subtitled Babel, but I will think of it as babbling in the best sense, like a brainy brook that occasionally overflows its banks … or its margins. Furthermore >[Jessica Helfand] Recently, I spent 10 days as artist-in-residence at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Conn., where I worked on a series of monotypes, drypoint etchings (and one extremely labor-intensive aquatint), trying to capture some of the momentum from my residency in Rome. Furthermore > |
Today’s Mohawk Show Finalist, is an exhibition book created by Julian Gosper of Spoken Design. The book is for artist Stan Denniston who documents his experiments with motionless subjects and motionless cameras for his exhibition “No-mo Video.” By training a video camera on a nuclear warning siren, for example, a fearful anticipation is created in the viewer. Furthermore >
09.08.10
Should Felt & Wire offer a prize for applied paper folding? Just when I think I’ve seen it all, I came across these cool invitations from Joey Notes. Furthermore >
09.07.10
This book documents the long, strange trip of RISD’s 2009 graduating class, as the students grapple with the big questions of design. Here they have tried to create a “new taxonomy of work — based on methods and materials rather than department or discipline.” Furthermore >
09.03.10
|
