Each issue this year has seen a new collaboration between Print and a guest art director. One
after another, they’ve reinvigorated the magazine with their own vision.
Fittingly, the latest—and last—issue in the project, guest designed and
coedited by the Dutch designers Metahaven, is the Identity issue. We expanded
our usual focus, moving, as Metahaven writes, “to the fringes of the design
world.” You’ll find stories on the “design” of geopolitics, the artist behind
M.I.A.’s unusual websites, Experimental Jetset’s grappling with modernism, and
the masks that comic-book artists wear in their own work. Elsewhere in the
magazine, Rick Poynor wonders if we need a new term to describe the field of
graphic design, Chermayeff & Geismar previews its new monograph for Print
Publishing, and the Heads of State offers its take on the iconic form of the
business card.
Features
Identity
A special section of Print, guest designed and coedited by METAHAVEN
As the world deorganizes, there are fewer and fewer clear ways to set an organization apart from its surroundings.
A conversation with Experimental Jetset
BY METAHAVEN
The artist Ryder Ripps searches for for honesty online. BY PADDY JOHNSON
Design and Geopolitics: The Altergloba, Soft Power, and Disaster Capitalism
An interview with Benjamin Bratton BY METAHAVEN
Cloud Communism
A conversation with Deterritorial Support Group BY METAHAVEN
Marks Men
An interview with Chermayeff & Geismar
BY AARON KENEDI
Why did Harmon Killebrew—and everyone else—believe
he was the batter in baseball’s iconic logo?
BY PAUL LUKAS
The Mask of Myself
Self-representation in autobiographical comics
BY BILL KARTALOPOULOS
How boycotting became the new advertising BY METAHAVEN
Smoke Screen of Information
The many identities of 2x4
BY IAN VOLNER
Unmooring
Stewart Smith’s quiet critiques
BY JUSTIN SULLIVAN
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Print's October 2011 Issue: Table of Contents
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by Print staff
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Table of Contents
Departments
Steven Heller talks to Maharam about creating individuality on a mass scale.
Rick Poynor files a report from the place formerly known as graphic design.
Best Practices
Jeremy Lehrer on whether Seventh Generation’s pulp redesign lives up to the hype
Stereotype
Paul Shaw wonders if designers have a type (and Stephen Coles comments from the margins).
Education
How do you tell the story of the L.A. art scene? Eva Hagberg explores.
Design Thinking
Damien Newman flips through IDEO’s lesson plan.
Christopher Butler argues against augmented reality.
Up Front
Design Brief
As our year of guest art directors ends, we’re left with an uncanny feeling.
Crit+Comments
Feedback from readers
Grids+Guides
Ben Katchor goes to the library, Manhattan’s grid turns 100, Chris Anderson talks TED, and Palestine gets its passport stamped
In the back
Reviews
A Saul Bass monograph, an anthology of Yiddish comics, and a preview of the Walker’s blockbuster show on graphic design.
Back Issue
Editor emeritus Martin Fox on why Print declared the swastika the symbol of the century
The best business graphics from around the world
A new album from Girls, a personal project by Chip Kidd, Sagmeister’s Portuguese identity, and a place for social media to gather
Michael Silverberg on why the business card won’t die
The founder of Browns takes us into his office.
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Reader Comments
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Can I have my October issue some time soon? I paid for my subscription about a month ago.
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jerome
October 25, 2011
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The cover is horrible. So is the layout in the article they did. Just dipped in Ugly sauce. Doesn't make me want to read it. AT ALL
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beachdesigner
December 22, 2011
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Regards to Print for exposing many designers (who may have never had the desire or opportunity) to Metahaven's work. They are a fantastically radical studio and I appreciate you dedicating the guest edit spot to them.
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dodads
October 31, 2011
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mclearea
October 17, 2011
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I have enjoyed Print Magazine for 15 years now. But I have to say, the cover of the current issue [October 2011] upsets me. If you were to tell me an eight-year-old child designed it, I wouldn't believe you. I've yet to meet an eight year old as aesthetically inept as whoever duped you into printing this "thing." Seriously, who approved it? Also, can I have their job?
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ChrisAtAccess
October 19, 2011
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