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, Recollected
Trash and its endless afterlife.
By Sulki & Min
Loving Garbage
Print recycles: This 1993 story on an exhibition of waste management is reprinted throughout the feature well.
By Tod Lippy
Trash the Block
A visual catalog of lost and abandoned objects in one Brooklyn neighborhood.
By Jillian Tamaki
Trashed and Found
A packaging designer discovers her own work discarded in the streets.
By Debbie Millman
Print’s 2012 Color Competition
Our annual look at the best use of color in design
 Garbage Without Borders A travelogue of crappy graphics. By Michèle Champagne |
 Death of a Pressman A remembrance of Tom Trumble, letterpress pressman, and a meditation on preservation and nostalgia. By Fritz Swanson |
 Killing Time 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?” |
 Waste Not Could a locally made garbage can help bring American manufacturing back from the brink? By Alissa Walker |
UP FRONT
Grids+Guides
Droog 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
Dialogue
Steven Heller interviews Kevin O’Callaghan, junkyard alchemist.
Stereotype
Paul Shaw and Stephen Coles on the workaday beauty of stencil letters
Interaction
Is information overload killing our ability to think?
Best Practices
Getting rid of sticky-label liners
Observer
Rick Poynor on the aesthetic transformation of waste
IN BACK
Back Issue
Martin Fox revives Print’s Salon des Refusés.
Reviews
Tom Vanderbilt on “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” and Claire Lui on Robert Caro’s LBJ covers
In the Studio
Andrew Byrom’s ample campus work space