2012 Creativity+Commerce Competition Winners

  The Creativity+Commerce competition is Print’s annual showcase of the best in business graphics, from corporate logos and annual reports to websites, branding campaigns, and packaging. Below, you will find all of the above, as well as several posters, two …

2012 Hand Drawn Illustration Competition Winners

This is the second year of our Hand Drawn competition, which celebrates the best in illustration. To help us make sense of a crowded field, we asked for advice from the celebrated Los Angeles–based artist and designer Akiko Stehrenberger. “Judging …

Image of the Day, August 24, 2012

The stunning collector’s edition of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year Sword, which features a deluxe slipcase with five metal latches, Nepalese binding (an exposed, specially stitched spine), and a signed frontispiece. Design by Peter Mendelsund. Image of the Day …

2011 Creativity + Commerce Competition Winners

The Creativity + Commerce competition is meant to highlight the best business-focused design from around the world: logos, identities, annual reports, advertising campaigns, signage, and corporate brochures. But over the years, that world has sometimes seemed very small indeed, with …

Dialogue: Arachne for the Digital Age

The New York–based textiles company Maharam is a fourth-generation, family-run business. It has been reinvented by each successive generation, which probably accounts for its unusual longevity in the dysfunctional realm of family businesses. Louis Maharam, its founder, was a Russian …

Poster Children

A new generation of designers revives the quintessential Polish art form. A poster for the Polish release of Citizen Kane 2010, by Homework. Henryk tomaszewski created a colorful broadside for Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane in 1948, when the film arrived …

Color in Design Awards 2011

Last year, Print and our sister publication, HOW, teamed up with Pantone to cohost the first ever Color in Design Awards. A team of color experts from Pantone and the design industry (Pantone’s marketing director, Giovanni Marra; Print’s former art …

Scenes from a Revolution

Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy   The Egyptian revolution was an uprising of all classes and all ages in which over 800 people lost their lives. It was also a war of words and images, a creative outpouring of anger and …

Breaking Through Boundaries — Dialogue with Paola Antonelli

— She is the best friend that graphic design and typography have in the museum world. Conceiver of such exhibitions as “Safe: Design takes on Risk,” “Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design,” and “Design and the Elastic Mind,” Paola Antonelli, …