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Jul 18, 2018
4 min

Comic-Con’s Eisner Judging and the New “Comics & Design Awards”

By: Michael Dooley Forget about who’ll walk away with Eisner Awards on Friday at San Diego’s Comic-Con. Sure, there’ll be worthy winners. In my feature on Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters, which garnered multiple well-deserved nominations, I wrote that it would easily top any comics and design “best of” award. More on that notion momentarily. But honestly, the Eisners are much more a popularity contest among comics industry professionals than it is any real gauge o

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May 1, 2018
7 min

13 Graphic Designers Who Created Picture Books

Drawing is a skill that can be developed with practice. In the online course Intro to Drawing, you’ll learn techniques for drawing what you see using a correct technique. Studies in contour drawing, perspective, positive/negative space and value will help you build a foundation. The best picture books do what great graphic design does: share a story that stays. Built with the tools of layout, typography, color, contrast, shape, and line, picture books can guide attention, exp

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Dec 31, 2017
10 min

Illustration History Gets the Care and Attention It Deserves

Ten years ago, Rick Poynor pointed out in Print that “One thing illustration has always lacked, compared to graphic design, is a strong critical framework by which to assess it.” He went on to note that, “Apart from Steven Heller … one would be hard pressed to name a single highly active writer, an expert, primarily identified with illustration as a subject.” Well, all that’s about to change, in a major way. Enter the Douglas B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library. Mac Conner

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Apr 5, 2017
2 min

The Case of the Dummy Nose

Seymour Chwast published The Nose, a thematic self-promotional publication, from 1997–2009. I was editor for around a dozen of the issues, though it was entirely Chwast’s concept, artwork and wit that made The Nose run (I merely contributed pithy and pun-filled editorials). Like the Push Pin Almanac, Push Pin Graphic and Push Pin Monthly before it, the themes were both serious and comedic—sometimes both at once. In the satiric tradition, Chwast used art and commentary to addr

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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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Nov 3, 2016
14 min

Picturing Famous Comics Artists and Animators, at Ease

By: Michael Dooley Photographer Greg Preston is a good-natured, low-key guy. There’s an ease about him that enhances his subjects’ comfort amidst their already-familiar surroundings. It’s visible enough in The Artist Within, a handsome, generously-sized hardcover from 2007 with roughly a hundred “portraits of cartoonists, comic book artists, animators, and others,” as the book’s subtitle has it. He’s captured a broad spectrum of extraordinary talents, from Al Hirschfeld, Jule

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Sep 15, 2016
1 min

Chwast’s Saintly Art

Finding a great designer or illustrator’s old work (or young work, depending on how you define it) is like looking at vintage snapshots. Seymour Chwast’s colored pencil drawing for Nikos Kazantzakis’ Saint Francis from 1962 is an elegant depiction of the patron saint of Italy and animals. Contemporary yet classic. Typography & Lettering Awards – Now Open! All too often, typography gets overlooked in larger design competitions—which is why we developed one that gives the artfo

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Jul 18, 2016
3 min

War! What Is It Good For?: Antiwar Images of the 20th Century

Recently Seymour Chwast launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund his illustrated book, War on War: An Illustrated Timeline of 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, a publication showcasing the culmination of his six-decades-long obsession with man’s 5,000 year history of self-destruction. Examples of Chwast’s conflict-related work go back as far as 1958, to the Push Pin Graphic no. 16, entitled “Peace and War.” Other items in the Push Pin Graphi

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May 27, 2016
1 min

18 Illustrated Quotes by Seymour Chwast

A living legend, Seymour Chwast is one of the founding members of the iconic Push Pin Studios in 1954, along with Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel. His revolutionary design work from the 1960s and ’70s redefined the world of art and design, and his illustrated quotes have graced the pages—and webpages—of PRINT for many years. These days, Chwast has been hard at work on a new book, At War with War, currently being funded on Kickstarter. The book will feature an array of insights

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Apr 26, 2016
2 min

Seymour Chwast At War With War

It is far from true that nobody likes war. Sorry to say, there are many who get a rush from the danger of this savage, extremely dangerous sport. Not Seymour Chwast. And he can prove it through posters, books, illustrations and magazines that petition the saber rattlers and missile launchers whenever possible. Maybe his efforts are to no avail. Stopping war is harder than starting it. But Chwast’s work is nonetheless a reminder that triggers emotions and, hopefully, one of th

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Dec 18, 2015
2 min

Beyond the Graphic Novel: Is She Available?

You don’t need Seymour Chwast, Chip Kidd and other designers to tell you that cartoons and comics are vital sources of creative inspiration (although they do that here). So maybe you’re thinking about exploring the graphic novel realm, but you’d like something more exceptional than usual, more out of the ordinary. Well, here’s the first of a series of suggestions that either defy or disregard categorization as comics. And the first, Is She Available?, is an eBook that also ch

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Jul 24, 2015
7 min

The Push Pin Pantheon

The following sampling from a series of 63 portraits of Push Pin Studios’ “Luminaries” is a project by Stephen Alcorn, son of designer, illustrator and early Push Pin member John Alcorn (1935–1992). John passed away too early, but bequeathed to Stephen a talent and passion for drawing. These drawings of Push Pin’s founders (below from top) Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, and early members, Ed Sorel, Reynold Ruffins and John Alcorn, represent a pantheon of designer/illustrat

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May 22, 2015
2 min

All Chwast, All the Time

Seymour Chwast, co-founder of Push Pin Studios, has been honored, celebrated and documented, but this week his definitive online archive is finally available to design historians, critics, students, groupies, professionals, professional groupies and, in fact, just about everyone with access to the internet. Go here for the Seymour Chwast Archive, which features hundreds of known, lesser-known and unknown published work. If the Dante’s Inferno poster (below) is familiar, it’s

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Apr 13, 2015
2 min

Ludwig Hohlwein, Master Designer

While rummaging through the studio bookshelves, I met an old friend: Ludwig Hohlwein, a collection of the poster designs by the artist published in Berlin in 1926. Just seeing the binding made me realize how much Hohlwein’s work affected my interest in graphic design and vintage advertising. I picked the book up from Irving Oaklander, the rare bookseller who passed away in 2012. It’s one of the most lusciously illustrated volumes you’ll ever see, mainly because Hohlwein’s wor

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Nov 24, 2014
1 min

Chwast’s Quote: The Illustrated Words of Yogi Berra

By: Ronson Slagle | November 24, 2014 A notable quote from Yogi Berra, illustrated by Seymour Chwast—number 158 in a weekly series. For more Seymour Chwast, check out The Last Word, his illustrated column in Print magazine, available from MyDesignShop.com. #baseball #malapropismpism #SeymourChwast #YogiBerra

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Jul 25, 2014
1 min

Chwast’s Quote: The Illustrated Words of Shakespeare

By: Ronson Slagle | July 25, 2014 A notable quote from Shakespeare, illustrated by Seymour Chwast—number 146 in a weekly series. Submit a quote in the comments (or on Twitter or Facebook), and it will be considered for a future column. For more Seymour Chwast, check out The Last Word, his illustrated column in Print magazine, available from MyDesignShop.com. #Shakespeare #late #playwright #early #SeymourChwast #time

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May 14, 2014
7 min

Elwood Smith: From Famous Artists School to Becoming a (Real) Famous Artist

Do you remember the Famous Artists School ads on matchbook covers and in the back of magazines like Life and Look and The Saturday Evening Post? If you’re over a certain age and your scribbles and paint dabs had been selected to be on school bulletin boards since kindergarten, you might have been intrigued, as was I, by headlines such as this: “A Fascinating… Money-Making Art Career Can Be Yours,” “Test Your Art Talent,” “If You Can Draw This…” If you could draw the dog or th

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Mar 6, 2014
1 min

Chwast’s Quote: The Illustrated Words of Stefan Sagmeister

By: Ronson Slagle | March 6, 2014 A notable quote from Stefan Sagmeister, illustrated by Seymour Chwast—number 127 in a weekly series. Submit a quote in the comments (or on Twitter or Facebook), and it will be considered for a future column. For more Seymour Chwast, check out The Last Word, his illustrated column in Print magazine, available from MyDesignShop.com. #quote #SeymourChwast #special #StefanSagmeister

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Jan 14, 2014
2 min

Print’s February 2014 Issue

By: Jinnie Compton | January 14, 2014 The Sex & Design Issue: This month, we take a tasteful look at everything from sex itself to sexuality. Plus, we draw attention to the artists and projects, such as the racy Secret Behavior magazine, that explore sex. We even sneak behind the black bars of censorship to understand why certain comics are so controversial. PURCHASE COPY or PDF | DOWNLOAD SINGLES | SUBSCRIBE (In Print or iPad Version) Cover by Rodrigo Corral. FEATURES Peepin

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Oct 18, 2013
1 min

Artists as Art

Seymour Chwast’s perpetually fertile imagination is still going full bore with his series “The Artists: Postcard Portraits of Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Masters.” His “imaginings” of what the maestros look like wrapped in their own art brands are not simply charmingly witty, they represent Chwast’s fluid mastery of style, form and content. This suite is truly sweet (in the vernacular of youth). (They can be purchased by writing seymour@pushpininc.com.) I also asked Chwast

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Comic-Con’s Eisner Judging and the New “Comics & Design Awards”

13 Graphic Designers Who Created Picture Books

Illustration History Gets the Care and Attention It Deserves

The Case of the Dummy Nose

25 of the Best Recently Released Design Books

Picturing Famous Comics Artists and Animators, at Ease

Chwast’s Saintly Art

War! What Is It Good For?: Antiwar Images of the 20th Century

18 Illustrated Quotes by Seymour Chwast

Seymour Chwast At War With War

Beyond the Graphic Novel: Is She Available?

The Push Pin Pantheon

All Chwast, All the Time

Ludwig Hohlwein, Master Designer

Chwast’s Quote: The Illustrated Words of Yogi Berra

Chwast’s Quote: The Illustrated Words of Shakespeare

Elwood Smith: From Famous Artists School to Becoming a (Real) Famous Artist

Chwast’s Quote: The Illustrated Words of Stefan Sagmeister

Print’s February 2014 Issue

Artists as Art

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