How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening (Melville House, $19.95), by David Rees, is not your average book about pencil sharpening. In ...
Reasons to Be Creative is a festival for creative artists, designers, and coders. The conference brings together some of the most respected and brilliant minds from the worlds of art, code, design, a...
I came to drawing movies quite by accident; my first attempt, “Watching Beginners,” was inspired by the actual illustrations featured in Mike Mills’s award-winning film. I drew the plot as I watched,...
A notable quote from Woody Allen, number 42 in a weekly series. Submit a quote in the comments (or on Twitter or Facebook), and it will be considered for a future column!
Grade-school report cards are scary documents, made even more so by by the Italian Fascist Ministero Dell Educazione Nationale. The reports here show that the brothers Enzo and Vincenzo Radino were p...
Whats a visit to Rome without spending some time at the shops that sell ecclesiastic vestments. Do you know what surplices and albs are? Or stoles, Battesimo, Chasubles, Paraments or Cassocks. And fo...
Our preview of notable HOW Design Live conference speakers continues with Brian Collins. The creative juggernaut and brand strategist, now chief creative officer of COLLINS:, has been a good friend o...
I wish I’d come up with “Clutter My World,” but I stole the line from Laura Levine. That Laura is one smartypants—rock photographer, illustrator, filmmaker, and owner of the business I’d most like to...
What is this urge that iPhone and digital camera users have for taking food photos? Weve all done it, right? Food porn? Weve photographed our plates at dinner, vegetable displays at markets. And weve...
If you happen to be in Roma on June 8, come by and listen to my talk on Typology. Or at least savor the poster designed by Cristina Chiappini.
If I were to ask, Id bet that most people would anticipate that technical difficulties—such things as programming and server-level configuration—would be the greatest challenge of web development. Th...
The cover design shows where the contributors decided to place the page number, via GraphicDesign& “My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make...
Design in Question (Lars Müller Publishers) is the biggest little book of design questions, or questions about design, that Ive ever seen. Small but chunky, this volume, a project by Reudi Baur, Vera...
Intellectual property is a terrible thing to waste. Gucci is one of the many big brands to keep their lawyers in sports cars and lobster cocktails. Here is a sampling from the past few years of IP li...
Here in Roma the streets are filled with typographic history. But my interest today is Futuristic artifacts. My first souvenir is a deck of postcards featuring caricatures drawn by Tullio Crali, the ...
You all must know of Dan X. Solo, even if you dont actually know him. His books, filled with antique typographic wonders from the Victorian age and beyond, are both numerous and bountiful. Dan died a...
The New York chapter of the AIGA, the professional association for design, was founded in 1982, and we’re in the midst of a multi-event 30th anniversary party. As part of the festivities, there was a...
Theres this comic-book story about space aliens who try to save our planet from self-annihilation. But they arrive too late: Wed already destroyed ourselves in an atomic war. They land their rocket s...
Now that summer is almost here, there’s no better way to enjoy a day on the beach than delving into a magazine about death. That is the theme explored with life-affirming verve in the 16th issue of A...
On Tuesday night, May 22, I participated, with twelve other New York designers, in an evening celebrating the 30th anniversary of AIGA/NY. Each contributor was supposed to speak for six minutes (thou...
Who would have thought that our names would evolve to the point where a simple "@" would replace "Mr." or "Ms."? Well, thats beside the point of this post. In fact, this is a ...
As part of the lead-up to the HOW Design Live conference, held this June in Boston, Imprint will be offering sneak peeks of some of the talks as well as combing through our archives for perspectives ...
A notable quote from Ansel Adams, number 41 in a weekly series. Submit a quote in the comments (or on Twitter or Facebook), and it will be considered for a future column!
What would you do with dem extra shin bones, knee bones, bone bones? The designer and photographer Francois Robert, who is known for capturing invisible alphabets on film (and digital matter), made t...
Sites of Memory is a brand new map-based website conceived and edited by the writer and art director Angela Riechers, who holds an M.F.A. from SVAs D-Crit program. This dynamic site is accompanied by...
Spring suffuses the natural world with color—but those with a keen eye know that color infiltrates city and town too, not to mention plenty of other nooks and crannies. Here are the hot color finds o...
GE was just one of many corporations that tried to help the female consumer with household duties. Swell, beautifully designed meals were the order of the day. Of course the day (or year) was 1937; A...
Opening tomorrow, May 23: Museum, a new free museum that preserves the often overlooked, unseen, and forgotten treasures from the streets, stores, and people of the world, most prominently New York C...
Specimen #24: Paperbag bush (Salazaria mexicana) Light as a ghost, a paperbag bush balloon is an easy desert traveler, drawing its weight from the wind and its coloring from the sunset. These tiny se...
Glob-All Mix: 30 Posters for a Sustainable World, curated by the Brazilian designer Felipe Taborda, is a poster project designed to complement Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Dev...
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