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Now on Imprint
 The Lead Pencil Art of Dalton Ghetti
For Dalton Ghetti, pencils are as precious as marble was to Michelangelo, Bernini, and Rodin. Pencil lead is, in fact, his sculptural material out of which he carves incredible miniatures, from teeny weeny busts of Elvis to itsy bitsy hammers and saws. His show at the New Britain Museum of American Art just closed. More here, here
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Featured Comment
 "The best place I know to get presentation skills is in a Toastmasters
club. Not only do you get more time doing hands-on skill building as a
public speaker, but it costs almost nothing. I started after a friend of mine
who’d published a book told me about it–she had to go on a speaking
tour and was a very shy person, so she had tried Toastmasters and said
it really helped her." Read more
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Yesterday's Obsession
Quit your job—you owe it to yourself and your work, says Ben Pieratt. I agree, wholeheartedly, but because I’ve been around the block long enough to see why quite a few designers don’t do well in corporations: the hours are dronelike, most folks around you are administrative in nature and therefore tend to see creative solutions as "wild cards" that will just create more work. Read the full Obsession
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The Push Pin Paradigm
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If you happen to be in Tokyo walking around the Ginza stop by the GGG Gallery (above). You’ll want to see The Push Pin Paradigm, early works by Push Pin Studio artists Seymour Chwast, Paul Davis, Milton Glaser and James McMullan. The work spans 1950’s through the 1970’s and the exhibit Ginza Graphics Gallery, which opened September 2, 2010 features 200 posters, paintings, and prints, along with issues of the studio’s promotional publication, The Push Pin Graphic, which reflected the iconoclastic mood of those decades and reached out to a generation of peers.
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