Tote That Bag, Enter That Contest
by Steven Heller
The Strand Book Store, partnering with the School of Visual Arts, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics Books and Toon Books, to host a tote bag design contest. Artists from around the world are invited to submit original illustrations featuring the Strand Book Store. In June 2007, the Strand unveiled the first Artist Tote Bag: Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman loaned his iconic Maus image for the first time ever to celebrate the Strand's 80th birthday....
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Good Fortune Redesign
by Steven Heller
This week saw the premiere of Fortune magazine's redesign. Four separate covers were printed of soldiers who are the next wave of business executives. Founded in 1930 by Henry Luce, it cost $1.00 a copy at the height of the Great Depression....
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Robo Crop
by Steven Heller
The windows of Paul Stuart on 16th Street and Fifth Avenue in NYC are occasionally transformed from retail display into art showcase. This week they feature a gaggle of incredibly witty and delightfully retro robots designed by Gordon Bennett of Bennett Robot Works. Made from found materials and mechanical parts, this crop of robots, each with names like Nick & Nora, Arvin, Hickok and Ms. Jello, are brilliantly crafted machine age marvels....
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Print partners with AIGA to promote design thinking
by Admin
Print, How, and AIGA have announced a major partnership called “Partners in Design Leadership,” an initiative to advance the concept of design thinking, the relevance of design in problem solving and the leadership role designers play in our society....
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Carry Hope
by Print staff
For the next issue of Print we have invited 12 leading visual artists to choose a cause they would like to support and create a design for tote bags that will be sold...
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The Painterly Ms. M
by Steven Heller
The Julie Saul Gallery is now showing its fourth solo exhibition with Maira Kalman (until May 1). Comprised of over fifty gouache paintings created since 2005, mainly on assignment for various magazines and publications, the work encompasses Kalman's signature subjects: fashion, still lifes (soda bottles, oysters, flowers, crown jewels), great hotel interiors, and portraits of presidents and poets. "Kalman's style has become more painterly in recent years with the use of broad saturated color field backgrounds," says Saul....
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Color Blind Subway Map
by Steven Heller
If you were Brooklyn based designers David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler and produced a new New York City subway map printed in a single color, what would it be? Florescent red. As Heasty notes, "The design strips away the familiar color-coding of the subway system routes while still maintaining a level of hierarchy and functionality. It embraces a dual (and seemingly contradictory) agenda. In this way, the map reflects the opposing effects visual communication can have on our society, either to move things forward or bring them to a halt." How do you like it Massimo?...
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Flaunt Yourself
by Steven Heller
Flaunt is a collection of 41 case studies of diverse portfolios edited by the enterprising folks at UnderConsideration, Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit. In this age of heated competition within the design fields, a good portfolio is not a luxury but a necessity. Without one the aspiring designer is no one. Through concise interviews the selected designers in Flaunt reveal "the need, motivation, process, and eventual solution that each of their owners discovered," say the pair....
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X Marks the Spot
by Steven Heller
In 1973 I designed two posters (one above) and the title sequence for an independent film titled "It Happened in Hollywood." It was not the Richard Dix and Fay Wray, Hollywood version, but a more humorous porn opus produced by Bulo Production (a.k.a. Screw Magazine films) and starring an ingenue, Felicity Split. On premiere night Bulo rented a limo and drove around the block ten times, dropping off different members of the cast and crew each time. It was like something Mel Brooks might have done (and maybe did)....
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