The Trash Issue—with a special section guest designed by Sulki & Min
The Trash Issue: Featuring a special section guest designed by Sulki & Min; a visual essay by Jillian Tamaki; a look into the garbage cans and recycling bins of 18 designers; the winners of Print‘s 2012 Color Competition; and stories by Rick Poynor, Steven Heller, Debbie Millman, Fritz Swanson, Michèle Champagne, and more.
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FEATURES
Reused, Rewasted, Reabandoned, Reforgotten, RecollectedTrash and its endless afterlife.By Sulki & Min
Loving GarbagePrint recycles: This 1993 story on an exhibition of waste management is reprinted throughout the feature well.By Tod Lippy
Trash the BlockA visual catalog of lost and abandoned objects in one Brooklyn neighborhood.By Jillian Tamaki
Trashed and FoundA packaging designer discovers her own work discarded in the streets.By Debbie Millman
Print’s 2012 Color CompetitionOur annual look at the best use of color in design
A travelogue of crappy graphics.
By Michèle Champagne
A remembrance of Tom Trumble, letterpress pressman, and a meditation on preservation and nostalgia.
By Fritz Swanson
Jennifer Heuer, Post Typography, and Rumors tell us about their favorite projects that never saw the light of day. Also, 18 designers answer the question “What’s in your garbage?”
Could a locally made garbage can help bring American manufacturing back from the brink?
By Alissa Walke
UP FRONT
Grids+GuidesDroog goes waste-free, Aesthetic Apparatus puts a new spin on up-cycling, Steven Heller studies ice cream, and The New York Times Magazine talks trash.
DEPARTMENTS
DialogueSteven Heller interviews Kevin O’Callaghan, junkyard alchemist.
StereotypePaul Shaw and Stephen Coles on the workaday beauty of stencil letters
InteractionIs information overload killing our ability to think?
Best PracticesGetting rid of sticky-label liners
ObserverRick Poynor on the aesthetic transformation of waste
IN BACK
Back IssueMartin Fox revives Print’s Salon des Refusés.
ReviewsTom Vanderbilt on “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” and Claire Lui on Robert Caro’s LBJ covers
In the StudioAndrew Byrom’s ample campus work space
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