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Apr 17, 2020
12 min

PRINT Longreads: Building Braille

Print has been acquired by an independent group of collaborators—Deb Aldrich, Laura Des Enfants, Jessica Deseo, Andrew Gibbs, Steven Heller and Debbie Millman—and soon enough, we’ll be back in full force with an all-new look, all-new content and a fresh outlook for the future! In the meantime, we’re looking back at some of our favorite pieces from PRINT magazine, such as this one by Nadja Sayej. Berlin-based gallery dealer Johann König makes a living selling art he can barely

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Feb 3, 2020
3 min

Design Matters: Tosh Hall

Print has been acquired by an independent group of collaborators—Deb Aldrich, Laura Des Enfants, Jessica Deseo, Andrew Gibbs, Steven Heller and Debbie Millman—and soon enough, we’ll be back in full force with an all-new look, all-new content and a fresh outlook for the future. As a sneak peek at our new lineup: Expect Design Matters, and an exclusive piece to accompany it, right here, every Monday. If there’s something that seems so refreshing in Tosh Hall’s design work, it’s

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Aug 21, 2019
6 min

Ideas Designers Can Steal From Great Children’s Books

Children’s Books Are a Source of Endless — and Relevant — Inspiration Kid-less designers: You are beating me hands-down on sleep, gym, social, reading and movie time. Your minds are likely wonderfully clear of logistical tangles like scrounging up non-terrible snacks from a 7-11 in a pinch, or wrangling your kid crosstown rapidly without a carseat handy. But you are missing out in a single, enormous way—and no, I don’t mean the joys of parenthood proper. (Parenthood should re

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Apr 11, 2019
3 min

Best Advice? At HOW Design Live, Be a Sponge

The size and scope of this year’s HOW Design Live offers a lot of benefits: With an array of separate programs, each with a broad array of sessions and a lineup of expert speakers, you can design an agenda that’s perfectly suited to your needs and interests. Spread over four days, however, and with several thousand people attending, the event might seem overwhelming to some. Wondering how to get your head around it all? We’ve gathered tips from longtime HOW Design Live attend

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Mar 25, 2019
4 min

Mike Quon and A Lifetime’s Worth of Work

Mike Quon has been creating art and design for over 3 decades. With clients like Summer Olympics, AT&T, AOL, Time Warner, UNICEF, NBC, Coca-Cola, New York State Lottery and Dupont, his work has reached millions. Born to artist and former Disney animator Milton Quon in Los Angeles, he now resides in New Jersey, where a career-spanning retrospective of his work was held at Monmouth University in the DiMattio Gallery. I interviewed Quon about his life and career. You grew up in

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Oct 9, 2018
3 min

Fear and Hunger in Japan: On Anthony Bourdain’s Last Graphic Novel

By Michael Dooley Although Anthony Bourdain died before the release of Hungry Ghosts, he did review and approve the design of the last of his three graphic novels. That’s right: “graphic novels.” This acclaimed writer, chef, and TV host wasn’t only obsessed with cooking. Once an aspiring comics artist, Bourdain also had a passion for the medium in its myriad forms. He loved and collected adventure newspaper strips Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates and Will Eisner’s The Sp

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Sep 27, 2018
2 min

Sorry, Wrong Number (Извините, неверный номер!)

In 1937 Joseph Stalin’s “reign of terror” or “great purge” and subsequent “show trials” marked when the official repression began. His secret police, the NKVD, began rounding up so-called “counter-revolutionaries” and “enemies of the people,” many of who were loyal communists and Soviet leaders. Hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of victims were accused of political crimes, misdeeds and careless speech. Often those on the lists of the arrested, detained, tortured, trie

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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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Apr 18, 2018
3 min

Meet the Judges: Alexander Isley

For more than 35 years, PRINT’s Regional Design Awards has been honoring excellence across all channels of design. Whether you’re a freelancer, part of a large agency, an in-house creative or even a student, your unique work could reign supreme in this widely celebrated competition. Behind each RDA is a panel of A-list design experts ready to unearth fresh talent and shine a spotlight on groundbreaking ideas. In this series, we will interview each judge and take a closer look

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Apr 5, 2018
3 min

The Unexpected Art and Design of Famous Actors

The 2018 Regional Design Awards deadline has been extended—but only until April 30. Enter now for a chance to be featured among the country’s best design work. Your judges: Sagi Haviv | Rebeca Méndez | Nancy Skolos | Alexander Isley | Chad Michael | Gail Anderson | Justin Peters Talent doesn’t necessarily restrict itself to a single area. In earlier articles we have looked at the visual work of authors, the design and cartooning of fine artists, and the musical talents of des

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Mar 8, 2018
4 min

Chris Ware’s Newest Book is the Smartest Monograph on Earth

Enter PRINT’s Regional Design Awards for your chance to see your work in an all-new book by PRINT, and to win a Big Ticket to HOW Design Live, a main-stage trophy presentation and other exclusive opportunities on-site, including a lunch date with a HOW Design Live speaker and an invitation to the official Speaker Reception with industry movers and shakers at HOW Design Live. Chris Ware’s Building Stories was one of the best books of 2012. And that’s not just me talking. That’

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Jan 16, 2018
3 min

7 Designers Keeping the Art of Surrealism Alive Today

Surrealism has always played a role in graphic design—though it started as a political philosophy with the ideas of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. However, the French art critic Guillaume Apollinaire first coined the term in 1917. French artist André Breton fused forces with artists like Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst, first wrote the “Surrealist Manifesto” in 1924, which explored the subconscious world, intuitive drawing and the avant-garde, revolutionizing art and design. Now,

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Dec 30, 2017
4 min

Mirko Ilić’s Mission to Promote Social Tolerance

Designer/illustrator Mirko Ilić is a man with a mission. Currently he has curated two touring poster shows on the subjects of political dissent and social tolerance, featuring work from the international design community. He has been traveling extensively in support of both. The first is “The Design of Dissent,” created with Milton Glaser. Originally displayed in 2005 at School of Visual Arts in NYC, it was accompanied by coffee table book published by Rockport Publishers. Ea

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Dec 28, 2017
3 min

When Hollywood Movie Posters Met Revolutionary Cuban Design

And this year’s award for the Best Exhibition of Foreign Design of American Film Posters goes to … “Hollywood in Havana: Five Decades of Cuban Posters Promoting U.S. Films.” Roughly 40 screenprints from this Latin American island are now on display at Pasadena Museum of California Art. They publicize movies ranging from Singing in the Rain to Silence of the Lambs; directors from Kubrick to Hitchcock; and films produced in Cuba from a Marilyn Monroe documentary to a Chicano ci

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Dec 20, 2017
4 min

15 Artists Under 30: Natalie Shields

This is the third year we’ve run our New Visual Artists: 15 under 30 issue. What was once a highly edited list of 20 of the best and brightest young designers is now a deeper exploration of 15 of the most original talents working in visual communications today. This issue of Print comes at an interesting time. This new group of designers, while undeniably adroit, is part of a generation fully proficient in the art of self-promotion in a digital age. Getting the word out about

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Oct 28, 2017
4 min

Designer Garland Kirkpatrick: Keeping Social Issues Alive

Recent interest in a century-old series of infographics has been providing a ray of hope amidst our country’s current muddy quagmire of racial hatred and violence. I’m referring, of course, to renewed interest in the hand-drawn charts that civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois produced for the international Paris Exhibition in 1900. Designed as part of “The Exhibit of American Negroes,” the work is an investigation into the lives of black Americans. That fanned interest in his

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Oct 21, 2017
8 min

5 Takeaways from the 2017 AIGA Design, Eye on Design Conferences

Where is design headed next? What are its most urgent conversational topics, its smartest practitioners, its most Instagrammable images? Design fans, come with me to Minneapolis, site of the 2017 AIGA Design Conference as well as the inaugural Eye on Design conference. Entrance to 2017 Eye on Design conference, complete with pink-suited mascot. Inflatable Eye on Design logo at Nicollet Island Pavilion, Minneapolis, MN. I was curious about these events for several reasons. Fir

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Sep 3, 2017
2 min

Celebrating Centennials: 100 Years of Art & Design

On the heels of the Jack Kirby Centennial (and fellow comics creator Will Eisner‘s, covered earlier this year by Michael Dooley) I decided to explore who else in our field shared this milestone in 2017. The results are interesting to say the least. Here’s who and what I found—from signage designer Jock Kinneir to Felix the Cat. Jock Kinneir Designer Jock Kinneir (born February 1917) along with Margaret Calvert designed Britain’s road and motorway signage system. It became a r

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Aug 17, 2017
2 min

Protesting Racism And Hate With Political Art

In-House Creative Teams: How to Get More Output in Half the Time Following the horrific events precipitated by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members on Saturday in Charlottesville, VA, where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was murdered, President Trump shockingly came out in favor of the alt-right. The response by our community was swift. Some illustrators and designers created work anew, others re-purposed existing political art, illustrations and posters, and the

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Jul 25, 2017
3 min

Lemons Still Sell

by Andrew Fatato, Senior Copywriter, POSSIBLE Learn what old-timey print ads can teach us about making advertising for the future. In an age of sponsored Instagram selfie lenses created to unlock bespoke VR experiences for toddlers, it can be tempting to toss aside the ad techniques of yesteryear. But it turns out those old print ads still have a few things to say about making advertising. So, ignore your meme-feed notifications for two seconds and give this a quick skim. Hon

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PRINT Longreads: Building Braille

Design Matters: Tosh Hall

Ideas Designers Can Steal From Great Children’s Books

Best Advice? At HOW Design Live, Be a Sponge

Mike Quon and A Lifetime’s Worth of Work

Fear and Hunger in Japan: On Anthony Bourdain’s Last Graphic Novel

Sorry, Wrong Number (Извините, неверный номер!)

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

Meet the Judges: Alexander Isley

The Unexpected Art and Design of Famous Actors

Chris Ware’s Newest Book is the Smartest Monograph on Earth

7 Designers Keeping the Art of Surrealism Alive Today

Mirko Ilić’s Mission to Promote Social Tolerance

When Hollywood Movie Posters Met Revolutionary Cuban Design

15 Artists Under 30: Natalie Shields

Designer Garland Kirkpatrick: Keeping Social Issues Alive

5 Takeaways from the 2017 AIGA Design, Eye on Design Conferences

Celebrating Centennials: 100 Years of Art & Design

Protesting Racism And Hate With Political Art

Lemons Still Sell

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