Peter Mendelsund Crowdsources a Cover
by Claire Lui
Late one night, book designer Peter Mendelsund posted an entry to his blog that he would be interested in reader submissions of color ideas for the 12th volume of Black Jack, a seminal work in the Japanese manga canon....
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Janine Rewell
by Claire Lui
Rewell’s sensibility allows her to simply draw without forcing it. She doesn’t change her style for different countries, but she does present her ideas differently. “For Americans, everything has to be written down...
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Bondé Prang
by Claire Lui
Bonde Prang's work for House Industries—she is in charge of all the catalogs featuring the foundry’s typefaces—combines a sophisticated sense of style with a vernacular grooviness....
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Paper Wedding
by Claire Lui
When I was working on my story about cut paper, I interviewed Grace Bonney, of the popular blog design*sponge, and she said something that I found particularly interesting: “Rob Ryan is a cult figure for those Etsy people, but now he’s selling on Etsy!”...
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Paper Goes to the Movies
by Claire Lui
One of the most unusual manifestations of cut-paper art is in motion graphics. When you look at cut paper, with its fragility and graphic punch, it has such an immediate narrative quality that it’s easy to see why the art form has translated successfully to the screen....
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Jennifer Daniel
by Claire Lui
“I think what I’m good at is being funny,” says Jennifer Daniel. When asked whether she has any big plans in the works—say, a book or a gallery show, she thinks about it and says no, that she wants to stick with...
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Advice from Nelu Wolfensohn
by Claire Lui
In the 45-year history of Print's Student Cover Competition, one professor has picked more winners than anyone else. Meet Nelu Wolfensohn!...
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Rumble in the Hobby Lobby
by Claire Lui
Jessica Helfand talks about her new book on scrapbooking and the genre's relationship with design....
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Gary Fogelson
by Claire Lui
Recently, Gary Fogelson’s building super stopped by. “Hey, you’re a designer, right?” he asked. “Can you do an ad for my tile business?”
Other designers might have declined a request to put together...
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