Two Pieces of Purgatory Pie, Please
by Steven Heller
If you are in the Pacific Northwest and a D.Y.I. printing maven, treat yourself to "Magic Books and Paper Toys" with Esther K. Smith, co-proprietor of Purgatory Pie Press, at the Seattle Center for Book Arts. She'll reveal an array of tricky book forms from a myriad of traditions: hexaflexagons, magic wallets, simple pop-ups, origami-based forms, exquisite corpses, animations, jewelry books, etc. You can learn to make quick models, and then finish them, embellish with your favorite stamps, collage materials, stickers, buttons and beads....
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Extra Extra: The FBI's Most Wanted
by Steven Heller
“In a letter sent to Wikipedia’s San Francisco office, the FBI said that ‘unauthorised reproduction of the FBI Seal was prohibited by US law,’ the BBC reported today. “‘Whoever possesses any insignia…or any colourable imitation thereof..shall be fined…or imprisoned… or both.’” Them’s fighting words. But why?...
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Ken Burns on William Segal
by Steven Heller
William C. Segal is not as well known in the design world as his magazine contemporaries Alexey Brodovitch or Alexander Lieberman. His name does not appear in so much as a footnote in any design history textbook. Yet he had an equal influence on fashion magazines during the late forties and fifties. Segal was founder and managing director of Reporter Publications in New York City, as well as writer, editor, publisher and art director of its stunning periodicals, Men’s Reporter, American Fabrics and Gentry....
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A Rainbow Coalition
by Steven Heller
"Rock people, who were controlling the record labels, were only interested in sales. They were not interested in anything that you would say was connected with beauty or idealism. These guys were mostly Seventh Avenue salesman who came over to the record business because the kids were getting involved in all this rock stuff. The rock people had their own artists and designers who thought the way they did..."...
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Saturday Exclusive: Scenes from a Wedding
by Steven Heller
Rhinebeck, New York, was the place to be on Saturday morning for a little wedding madness. The home of the Rhinebeck Fair and the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome was the host of a high visibility wedding. I arrived at the wedding venue, presented my Print magazine press card and was told to wait in the garden. Being a seasoned reporter, I pulled out my iPhone and, pretending to look at the Weather App, began snapping photos....
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Wood Never Looked So Good
by Steven Heller
November may seem far away. But now's the time for forward thinking. So sign up to attend The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum's annual conference: Wayzgoose 2010 (November 5 - 7) in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.Representing the international printing community will be curators from the Gutenberg Museum and Tipoteca Italiana who'll lead a roundtable discussion on the subject of preservation through education in letterpress. Its only $75....
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When in Seattle . . .
by Steven Heller
. . . eat, drink and be entertained at The Pink Door (Post Alley, Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington; but watch for it, there is no sign on the pink door). Just thinking about it, makes me want to hop on a plane (business class) and eat my way through a meal of bruschetta del’ estiva – grilled ciabatta bread w/the ripest summer organic heirloom tomato, basilico trampetti olive oil & sea salt; linguine alle vongole – fresh baby clams, pancetta, garlic, peperoncini & white wine; cioppino pink door – prawns, mussels, clams, and calamari in a spicy tomato and white wine broth. Hungry yet?...
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BP: Branding Petroleum
by Steven Heller
How does British Petroleum, which branded itself Better Petroleum, overcome its Bad Publicity and solve its Branding Problem? Word is, they may switch back to using the name Amoco, which Bad Parent-company bought in 1998 and eventually absorbed. If BP (Being Punished) does reclaim Amoco, it will doubtless look to its legacy of corporate identity with a logo originally designed in the ’20s by Lucian Bernhard....
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The New Album Cover from The National
by Douglas Wolk
After last week's two-bill concert in New York City, here's an article from the most recent issue about the new album cover from The National: "Like the band’s music, the image is arty, cryptic, dense with occluded meaning, and built on the contrast between monochromatic austerity and explosions of full-spectrum detail."...
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Type+Skype=One Smart Dude
by Steven Heller
Oded Ezer’s Skype-Type is influenced by the visual possibilities of Skype’s video conferencing and social networks. Using the Skype application’s print screen function. Ezer‘s project calls to mind this prescient quote by Marshall McLuhan from the 1960s: “As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’”...
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The Last Picture Show
by Steven Heller
Kodachrome is dead. Long live Kodachrome. Kodak announced last year that it would retire Kodachrome, the popular color-reversal film it had manufactured since 1935. Last week, the last roll of Kodachrome came out of a laboratory in Parsons, Kansas. Kodachrome requires complex processing that cannot be done by mere amateurs and the one processor still in business will close its lab this December....
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Porno Transformed
by Steven Heller
Team Gallery in New York is currently in the final week of a group exhibition organized by Miriam Katzeff, titled “Forced Exposure” (July 1 through 30; 83 Grand Street, ground floor). One of the artists, Bjarne Melgaard’s most recent paintings are covers of old Screw magazines, which are defaced with “crudely executed figures and scrawled texts from a continuous novel that relies on the violent mythology surrounding the artist. Like the rest of Melgaard’s work, the fragmented and diaristic qualities of the text lures the viewer into the artist’s constructed personas and manipulates the relationship between fact and fiction.” As it happens, those old covers of Screw were done forty years ago under my art direction....
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