Children's Books, Soviet Style
by Steven Heller
Just in time for the holidays, Albert Lemmens and Serge Stommels, Dutch collectors/scholars, self-published a large-format, beautiful English-language reference on Russian/Soviet children's books. Says Howard Garfinkel of Productive Arts, "It is a comprehensive study with over 1,100 color illustrations and comes with a CD with a few thousand more." Productive Arts is selling the book in North America....
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Putting the Pro in Pro Bono
by Steven Heller
I am participating on a committee of New York designers called desigNYC with the mission of improving life in NYC by connecting nonprofit and civic groups in need of design assistance with professional, pro bono design resources. We're the matchmakers. Just completed is the selection of a group of amazing nonprofit organizations that we believe are doing important work in NYC that could be enhanced by design. NOW WE NEED THE DESIGNERS!...
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Remember Ed Emberley?
by Steven Heller
Remember Ed Emberley? Sure you do. In 1972 he published a 32-page book called "Make a World" (above), with 400 illustrations that showed children (like you and me) how to draw almost anything. It was instructional, but, says Steve Juras, who is currently developing a film on Emberley, "it was much more than that."...
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Steinweiss, Still Inspiring
by Steven Heller
A $500 book??!!! Well, that's Taschen's stock and trade. Yet, despite the high sticker price, the material in Alex Steinweiss: The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover is incredibly rich. This unprecedented document of a graphic designer's life's work is a deserving tribute to Steinweiss, the first designer to illustrate 78 rpm record album packages....
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Mouthwatering Graphic Design Books
by Steven Heller
The folks at Kind Company, who are responsible for the Alvin Lustig Archive, introduce a new entrepreneurial design project, Display. This is a gallery/bookstore of rare and important design books, periodicals, and ephemera. With this new project, says co-principal Greg D'Onofrio,"we hope to generate inspiration and awareness about modern, mid-20th-century graphic design books, history and some of its pioneers."...
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Subterranean Typography Blues
by Steven Heller
Paul Shaw, who's known for his inspiring type tours of vintage signs and inscriptions around New York City and is a Print contributing editor and columnist, has published (under his Blue Pencil Press imprint) an unprecedented analysis and chronicle titled Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story. From the stunning binding to the detailed historical account to the rich footnotes (almost as long as the text), this is a tour de force of design scholarship and cultural criticism....
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It's A Wrap!
by Steven Heller
What makes one wrapping paper more worthy than another? Sometimes it's who created it. To raise needed funds for the London Guardian and Observer Christmas appeal, which provides educational scholarships for young people in the Teso region of northeast Uganda, seven celebrities were asked to draw their version of holiday wrapping paper. To be frank, not all of the results are smashing, but they are heartfelt....
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Light Up
by Steven Heller
Tonight marks the first day of the festival of lights, so light up one and all. It is confounding to me why Christmas is always on December 25 and Hannukah is on all different days (next year its on Dec 1 and last was on December 20). While I Talmudically ponder this conundrum, here is a card designed by Arnold Schwartzman that brilliantly bridges the cultural, religious and pagan divides....
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Honesty Is the Best Policy
by Steven Heller
Introducing the art of "Honesty," an exhibition of work celebrating this fleeting virtue. The core of this exhibit is based on Luisa Gloria's “San Honesto," a fictional saint sanctified to fight against the universal corruption that fundamentally frames life in modern-day Mexico....
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Beautiful Type on Web, At Last!
by Steven Heller
Liz Danizco's website Bobulate is early evidence of the wonders of Typekit, a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the world's best type foundries. Launched on November 10, Typekit has been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. What's more, Typekit has built a technology platform that lets them host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smooths out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers essential protection....
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A Very Creepy, but Addictive, Video
by Steven Heller
Eric Wareheim, whose Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) TV comedy show Tim and Eric, is a cult favorite among a certain set (you know who you are), has directed a plethora of fascinating, often creepy over-the-edge music videos. I recently found his latest for Major Lazer "Keep It Going Louder," an extremely catchy dance club number, with bizarre facial graphics that are at once hard to watch yet difficult to ignore....
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Typewineography
by Steven Heller
Here's a marriage made in heaven: Type and wine. At a dinner party the other night I was surprised and pleased to be presented with a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon called "The Show," with a label that looked suspiciously familiar. Indeed it was design based on the legendary Hatch Show Print folks in Nashville....
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