Sam Weber
by Jane Lerner
In a pop-culture landscape dominated by the likes of Twilight, Harry Potter, and Avatar, the mythical monsters, heroes, and villains drawn by Sam Weber fit right in. Born in Alaska, raised in several different Canadian provinces, and currently settled in Brooklyn, Weber marks his obsession with science fiction, fantasy, and fairy tales without falling into the territory of 10-sided dice....
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Lotta Nieminen
by Jane Lerner
The Helsinki-based designer and illustrator Lotta Nieminen entered her first design competition when she was 12 years old; she won the grand prize--a hulking PC--by creating an entire issue of her very own fashion magazine. "My magazine featured self-staged fashion shoots modeled by friends, and epic stories about seals and Spice Girls," Nieminen says. "The whole layout was made by hand with pencil illustrations, hand-lettered type, and cut-and-pasted photographs. I guess they saw I really needed that computer."...
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The Best and Worst of Online Food Porn
by Jane Lerner
All that delicious food porn, as if we’re seeking an idealized version of food that’s prettier than what we’re going to get at home, has its opposite online as well....
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Timothy Goodman
by Jane Lerner
“It was the school of hard knocks,” says Goodman, who grew up in a single-mom household of modest means. He was encouraged to enroll in community college art classes, and in 2004, he transferred...
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Jessica Hische
by Jane Lerner
Many a young designer’s self-promotional holiday card has gone ignored by its recipients. But when Jessica Hische sent her hand-lettered “12 Days of Christmas” card to designer Louise Fili in December 2006...
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RDA 2008: Midwest
by Jane Lerner
Design judge Jane Lerner takes an in-depth look at the Midwest section of our 2008 Regional Design Annual....
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