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- Dec 20, 2016
- 12 min
25 of the Best Recently Released Design Books
Here, for your reading and visual pleasure, we present PRINT’s annual list of design books released over the past year, as collected by PRINT Editor-in-Chief Zachary Petit. Despite its disastrous reputation, this past year was an interesting year for design books, with a surprising quantity of reissues among those below. Whether you’re looking for reading material, inspiration for the coming year, or a gift for that creative person in your life, these books—listed in no parti
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- Oct 26, 2015
- 8 min
Voodoo, Guns & Whiskey at the AIGA National Conference
Everyone on stage at the AIGA National Conference started swigging and sharing Southern Comfort, and the two thousand designers in the audience went wild with joyous laughter. First were the five young contestants. The bottle was then handed to host Sean Adams, and then to the judges: Gail Anderson, Aaron Draplin, Robynne Raye, and Marc English in the guest seat, who took the longest, heartiest guzzle. After all, it was celebration time back in New Orleans. And it was part of
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- Apr 14, 2011
- 9 min
Aaron Draplin on Portland, Palin, Pizza, and…Design
Poster design by Aaron Draplin. The theme of last month’s San Diego AIGA Y Conference was “Spark.” But Aaron Draplin, the first speaker, had grander ambitions. Aaron had flown down the coast from Portland, Oregon, which he calls “a good place to get rained on,” and where he started his own design company in 2004. He began by announcing that he was going to astound us, win us over, and fire us way up. And then… he did just that. He zoomed through 100-plus images of his “legiti
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