Milton Glaser, this issue’s cover artist, sits down for an interview after becoming the first graphic designer to win the National Arts Award, recognized for his achievement by President Obama himself. “The fact that it has become a benediction is important,” Glaser says. “Officially linking graphic design with painting, music, etc. says that it’s not a subset—that design affects the culture.” Be sure to check out Glaser’s five biggest influences.
Elsewhere, we asked 12 designers to design a limited-edition custom tote bag for their favorite charity, and all the proceeds will go to the cause that they choose. Featuring Ed Fella, Si Scott, Geoff McFetridge, Büro Destruct, Deanne Cheuk, Christoph Niemann, and many others. See the complete list. You can order them exclusively from My Design Shop.
Table of Contents for June 2010:
FEATURES
Six renowned couples, including Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton (above), talk about their relationship with design and with each other.
Follow the Leader
A living example for designers, Milton Glaser tells us about his own role models.
Some of our favorite designers create tote bags for charity.
Featuring: Atelier Télescopique, Büro Destruct, Christoph Niemann, Deanne Cheuk, Ed Fella, Geoff McFetridge, HORT, James Joyce, Laurent Fetis, Rick Valicenti, Si Scott, Spin/Tony Brook, our submit-your-own contest winners Sawdust, and honorable mentions Sneaky Raccoon and Monochromats.
Earthly Delights
With her lush colors and quiet sense of joy, the illustrator Maira Kalman creates a world we want to inhabit.
By Peter Terzian
We share eye-popping visuals from the five winners of our Print in Motion competition.
DEPARTMENTS
Up FrontLetters for the birds, A.R. (augmented reality, that is) on newsstand fire.
Shelf Life
James Victore’s titles for David Byrne (left), the expanded reissue of Spiritualized’s 1997 album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, and Peter Mendelsund crowdsources a manga cover.
By Debbie Millman, Claire Lui, and Douglas Wolk
Interaction
If the iPad saves publishing, can it save publishing design?
By Khoi Vinh
Monologue
Sound Effects
A former Print creative director reflects on the love affair between design and music.
By Steven Brower
Dialogue
Steven Heller interviews Reto Caduff about the documentary biopic of Herbert Matter.
Observer.
Aren’t pictures worth a thousand words?
By Rick Poynor
Ephemera
World in Your Hand
The bygone romance of travel lives on in the author’s father’s collection of passports, luggage labels, and boarding passes.
By Penny Wolfson
Best Practices
Bigger Gets Better
Three large corporations are making green a priority.
By Jeremy Lehrer
Back Issue
July/August 1977: Vol. 31, No. 4
How Hitchcock got his start in graphic design.
By Martin Fox
Desktop
Obsessions
Triboro Design Solutions’ leftover, Fwis’ smutty typeface, the facial hair of Lee Clow, and the World’s Largest Picture.
Tools
The TypeDNA font tool for CS4.
By Patric King and Su
Hot Type
By Paul Shaw
Books
Reviews of Limited Language and Data Flow 2
By Sarah Zimmerman and Laurel Dammann
End Product
Mirror Homage
Anne Carson’s NOX
By Sarah Zimmerman
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