Blog | Print Magazine

Jun 8, 2020
3 min

The Daily Heller: Graphic Distancing

The long-term impact that COVID-19 will have on culture in general, and art and design specifically, is an interesting question. We’ve already seen dozens, hundreds and thousands of graphic, visual and performance artists and designers as well as curators, directors and interaction conceptualists who have variously overcome, bypassed and hacked the limits, protocols and restrictions. I’m not just referring to the multitudes of cautionary, advocacy and protest images that have

746 views0 comments

May 29, 2020
1 min

Brand of the Day—Project: Proceed

To support a local small business, you don’t have to give the shirt off your back—you just have to design one. In April, Device Creative Collaborative launched Project: Proceed to support businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in their native Winston-Salem, NC. Every week since, Device has released new custom T-shirts featuring local establishments, makers and creators, with 50% of the profits going directly to the businesses. Now, Device is looking further afield. “We’

124 views0 comments

May 28, 2020
1 min

Pandemic Posters, à la Française

Life is worth nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing is more precious than life itself … Marine Belkebir, a designer and illustrator at the French agency Saguez & Partners, had the lyrics from Alain Souchon’s “La Vie Ne Vaut Rien” stuck in her head during the pandemic—and in them, she found solace and inspiration. Belkebir created a set of seven COVID-19 posters, which Saguez & Partners has since been printing and distributing to brighten up businesses around Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine

139 views0 comments

May 28, 2020
1 min

All Aboard the S.S. Nice

Need a pick-me-up? Hop aboard the S.S. Nice. Like so many creative studios, the team at Reactor in Kansas City, MO, took a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. So they pivoted to new business—specifically, their own revenue stream powered by positivity. S.S. Nice: Send Something Nice. As the studio writes, “We believe there’s no better time than the present to make someone smile, and no happier time than receiving a package. Thus, S.S. Nice was created to spread the niceties and

67 views0 comments

May 26, 2020
1 min

The Daily Heller: Nature is Getting on My Nerves

I will wholeheartedly grant that humankind has made a mess of nature and despoiled its beautiful designs. But must it take such severe revenge? This year alone we’ve been attacked by COVID-19, Murder Hornets and (soon) cicadas in the millions. What’s next? Locusts, frogs, boils, hail, pestilence and a second term for Trump? #cicadas #DailyHeller #plagues #MurderHornets #StevenHeller #COVID19

53 views0 comments

May 25, 2020
4 min

CoviDiaries: Finding the Printed Past in Neville Brody’s Lockdown London

The biggest gifts are often those buried in adversity. In my case, the ones concealed in lockdown have been essentially those of time and space—time to declutter, review and organize, and space to breathe, observe and reflect. London in lockdown is, I imagine, pretty much similar to anywhere else: largely desolate streets, clearer air, and a mix of anger and fear, the intensity of which is continually adjusted based on the ever-varied extent of interpersonal distance. There a

800 views0 comments

May 25, 2020
1 min

The Daily Heller: Memorial Day, Texas-Style

Anne M. Giangiulio is an associate professor of design at University of Texas at El Paso. For the end of this most unusually difficult of semesters she gave her intro students a final assignment with a really tight deadline “so they intentionally wouldn’t overthink it,” she told me. “I basically wanted them to design a poster that would help them process this semester and this pandemic visually in a way that would bring them catharsis—be that serious or silly, or that reflect

119 views0 comments

May 20, 2020
3 min

CoviDiaries: Keepin’ On With Austin Dunbar of Durham Brand & Co.

In order to make the creative world feel a bit less lonely and a bit more connected in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve been publishing a new blog series—CoviDiaries—that brings us into the homes and minds of various designers, illustrators and other professionals, to see how they’re coping. Today’s installment comes from Austin Dunbar, founder of Durham Brand & Co. Here we are, in Week 9 of what seems like the never-ending quarantine dream. The last time we were a

100 views0 comments

May 20, 2020
2 min

The Plague, Reviewed

The tagline of Detroit’s Rotland Press is “Fine Publisher of Excursions Into Humor + Despair” and, well, the latter is something many of us are more intimately familiar with these days in quarantine as we crave the former. The tagline also perfectly encapsulates Rotland’s latest project: The Plague Review. Cover by S. William Schudlich; image by David Opdyke The second issue launched yesterday, and though the first two installments may have been hastily assembled to capture t

174 views0 comments

May 20, 2020
1 min

The Daily Heller: CovidRemix

David Sprague, the digital content lead in the Preservation and Digitization Department at Toronto Public Library, was parsing the library’s online collection and was struck by how many posters were devoted to cautioning and disciplining Canadians on the home front during the two World Wars. He had an idea to remix these images as positive propaganda aimed at COVID-19. The Toronto Public Library asked Canadian designers armed with Photoshop to choose one of the many wartime p

291 views0 comments

May 19, 2020
2 min

The Daily Heller: The Pandemic Sanity Clause

This pandemic has been, paradoxically, quite a “fruitful” calamity for poster designers. In fact, most catastrophic events these days are bringing out the creative in graphic designers, typographers and illustrators to do what they do best: communicate messages. Already, books and exhibitions are being discussed. Stay Sane, Stay Safe, created by Netherlands-based graphic designers Max Lennarts and Menno de Bruijn and writer Ronald de Leeuw, is possibly the largest of the worl

67 views0 comments

May 15, 2020
1 min

What Front-Line Gratitude Looks Like Around the World

We’ve shared our New York City–anchored COVID-19 project with Poster House—and today we’re looking a little further afield. Tillanelli Studio is an international collective of female illustrators, with founders Katerina Trofimova and Irina Kruglova based in Russia. They rallied their network, and have brought together a poster project from around the globe to show gratitude to front-line workers in the midst of the pandemic. “Illustration is an international language and we u

53 views0 comments

May 14, 2020
1 min

The Daily Heller: The COVID Zone

Indulge me, if you will. There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle-ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is a pandemic. It is an area which we call … This is a dimension of loneliness, anxiety and despair … Where untethered reality is fed by deceptive illusion. Where

49 views0 comments

May 13, 2020
1 min

Oh, the Places You Won’t Go! Jim Malloy Remixes Dr. Seuss and Dr. Fauci

There are two good doctors keeping us going these days: Dr. Anthony Fauci … and Dr. Seuss. It had been years since Boston-based creative director Jim Malloy thought about the latter’s books. After seeing a social media post about Oh the Places You’ll Go!, Malloy began toying around with some wordplay in the spirit of Seuss, and it made him smile—and he realized it might make others smile, too. He thus began passing the time by marrying the covers of Seuss with the wisdom of t

3,054 views0 comments

May 8, 2020
1 min

The Daily Heller: A Happy Mask

We all need something—anything—to provide a daily dose of happiness. I recently received an envelope from Stefan Sagmeister (who, as some may know, devised an entire exhibition and film on happiness), that included a personal greeting and a wonderful black and cobalt face mask designed by Anni Kuan. It made me smile, injected that daily dose of happiness, and got me up off my rear to go outside for 20 minutes under the sunny blue sky. A simple act of kindness goes a long, lon

51 views0 comments

May 7, 2020
2 min

Brand of the Day: Earl of East’s Delightful Collaborative Candles

If you’re like us, you’re missing the sights, sounds … and smells of the real world, for better or worse. As a poultice, British fragrance purveyor Earl of East and Uncommon Creative Studio are bringing a trio of those scents home—and they’re donating all proceeds from the project to Hospitality Action in the UK. The first fragrance: The Festival—“a floral haze of cut grass, burned skin and sun-warmed cider, with just the merest shimmer of distant portaloo. Top notes of burge

64 views0 comments

May 7, 2020
2 min

One Design Firm’s Quarantine, in Data

How exactly—and we mean exactly—have you slept during quarantine? How are the skies above you different? How has your cell phone usage evolved? The Spanish design studio Errea Communicación, based in Pamplona, knows. For the past 50 days of quarantine, Errea has been collecting data and publishing a visualization in the newspaper Diario de Navarra. The nine staffers at the firm effectively act as representatives of their fellow citizens in lockdown and bring vibrant life to a

92 views0 comments

May 6, 2020
1 min

#CombatCovid: Design Takes Over Times Square

When the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic began to come into focus, we partnered with Poster House and an array of the best designers working today to create a series of #CombatCovid PSAs. They launched in mid-April in New York City—the worldwide hub hit hardest by the virus. The New York Times, NPR and other outlets helped spread the word as they cropped up on 1,800 LinkNYC units throughout New York, in Times Square, on JCDecaux bus shelters and newsstand screens, and a

141 views0 comments

May 4, 2020
2 min

Pentagram Redesigns Andrew Cuomo’s PowerPoints

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily briefings have become many things at once: firm update on the realities of the crisis. Instruction manual. Rubric of leadership. Occasional dose of unexpected humor. And even if you don’t live in New York, you’ve probably heard about his co-star: his trusty PowerPoint slide deck, decked out in New York’s blues (Pantone 288C and 3005C, respectively) and Proxima Nova and Arial, per New York state’s graphic s

172 views0 comments

May 1, 2020
1 min

16 Hand Sanitizer Designs From Distilleries Around the Country

With tasting rooms shuttered by COVID-19, distilleries have turned to producing alcohol-based hand sanitizer—and many of them are giving it away to their communities or first responders for free. We poured a neat bourbon and sat down to find some of the finest non-imbibing alcohol around the country. Air Co. Fox Trail Distillery Falcon Spirits Dread River Distilling Co. Fifth State Distillery Litchfield Distillery Oklahoma Distilling Company Old Fourth Distillery Cardinal Spi

109 views0 comments

The Daily Heller: Graphic Distancing

Brand of the Day—Project: Proceed

Pandemic Posters, à la Française

All Aboard the S.S. Nice

The Daily Heller: Nature is Getting on My Nerves

CoviDiaries: Finding the Printed Past in Neville Brody’s Lockdown London

The Daily Heller: Memorial Day, Texas-Style

CoviDiaries: Keepin’ On With Austin Dunbar of Durham Brand & Co.

The Plague, Reviewed

The Daily Heller: CovidRemix

The Daily Heller: The Pandemic Sanity Clause

What Front-Line Gratitude Looks Like Around the World

The Daily Heller: The COVID Zone

Oh, the Places You Won’t Go! Jim Malloy Remixes Dr. Seuss and Dr. Fauci

The Daily Heller: A Happy Mask

Brand of the Day: Earl of East’s Delightful Collaborative Candles

One Design Firm’s Quarantine, in Data

#CombatCovid: Design Takes Over Times Square

Pentagram Redesigns Andrew Cuomo’s PowerPoints

16 Hand Sanitizer Designs From Distilleries Around the Country

OUR PARTNERS:

About

Contact