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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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Jan 7, 2019
3 min

An Innovative New Line of Graphic Novels that Draw from Real Life

Humanoids, Publisher of Quality French Comics The French comics publishing house Humanoids is primarily known in America for its interplanetary science fiction action adventures, as its robotic name might suggest. But back in March, it announced a new imprint, “Life Drawn,” dealing with “personal stories and provocative, political narratives” on a… well, a human scale. True-life comic book chronicles tend to be drab affairs, visually. All too often, our eyes slosh through pag

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Jul 13, 2018
4 min

Designer of the Week: Lana Roulhac

Lana Roulhac has more than 10 years of design expertise, focusing especially on bringing humanity and relevance to government design and technology brands. She’s worked on projects around the world, including in the UK, Asia and the US with brands like AMEX, Allied Vision, Min Cheng Bank and the World Health Campaign to end TB. She was also voted most likely to be president while in high school, so it’s probably a good idea to remember her name. Name: Lana Roulhac Location: L

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May 31, 2017
2 min

Inside The New School’s Parsons School for Design’s New State-of-the-Art Computer Lab

Special Advertising Note: The following sponsored content is brought to you courtesy of LG, one of PRINT’s trusted partners. Today’s growing and shifting design industry—combined with a boom in digital innovation—has resulted in a burgeoning market for technology tailored to the needs of creative professionals. It can be a challenge, however, for schools to acquire the latest tech to empower its students to do their best work. Larger, higher-performance monitors, for example,

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Apr 1, 2017
3 min

Variable Fonts with Dan Rhatigan

If you’re working in the typography world, you may have heard the whisperings of collaboration between some of the biggest names in technology. Adobe, Apple, Google and Microsoft have been working together (with the help of independent type foundries and designers) to create something that’s going to change the way we see type—literally. They’re called variable fonts, and Dan Rhatigan took the time to tell us everything we needed to know about them. “Variable fonts are a way

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Mar 17, 2017
5 min

Paula Scher Talks Technology in Design

Interviewing Paula Scher is like talking to the graphic design professor that I always wanted but never had. She’s smart. She’s cunning. She’s a little intimidating. But ultimately she’s a never-ending well of design knowledge. After doing a short feature on Scott Dadich’s latest project—a docu-series called Abstract—I was given the opportunity to chat with Paula about her involvement in the Netflix original, her more than 45 years in the design field and her advice for desig

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Oct 13, 2016
6 min

On the Missing Narrative of the iPhone 7 Launch

The billion dollar launch of the iPhone was met with petty complaints and indifference, highlighting the need for a Maslowian story-pyramid. It’s a tech company’s definitive nightmare. Apple, one of the most valuable and influential providers of modern day devices is launching a brand new flagship product with all the corporate fanfare money can buy, and is met with little but indifference, unjust and petty complaints. Let’s be clear, the problem isn’t the product. It’s the s

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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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May 16, 2014
9 min

Art for Comics and Storyboards: What’s the Difference?

Aaron Sowd and Trevor Goring have a lot to say about the art of narrative storytelling. Aaron’s worked on movie storyboarding and concepting for Steven Soderbergh and Michael Bay, comics for Marvel and DC, art for Apple and Netflix, designs for theme parks and video games, and illustrations for the New York Times and People Magazine. Trevor’s been doing film and TV concepts and boards for decades with directors such as Steven Spielberg, Bryan Singer, and Michel Gondry and on

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Apr 26, 2013
3 min

A Stan Mack Cartoon Chronicle of Revolutions Foretold

Stan Mack’s “Real Life Funnies” strip, created in the mid-1970s for the “Village Voice,” presaged the documentary comics of artists such as Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco. And now it appears that his Print feature from 17 years ago also anticipated today’s digital communications environment. Here’s Mack’s personal, behind-the-scenes details about one such story. It involves freedom fighters, street signage, and political and technological revolutions. “In many countries, the In

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Oct 18, 2011
2 min

Design Celebrating the First 2000 Years of Computing

As the world looks back on the outstanding innovations Steve Jobs gifted our society, a small San Francisco-based design firm knows first-hand just how far we’ve come tech-wise. Creative Directors Erik Schmitt and Julio Martínez of studio1500 have spent the last three years working with Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum, rebranding this major institution which houses the world’s largest collection of computer artifacts. Earlier this year the design team’s final efforts

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Oct 13, 2011
1 min

A Magazine Is an iPad That Doesn’t Work

This has been flying around the interwebs all day: a baby who’s confused that she can’t get a magazine to work like an iPad. On the one hand: yes, it’s fascinating that she thinks a magazine should work the other way. On the other: this is totally unscientific. what if she’d been taught magazines first and iPads second? Would she then think an iPad is a weird magazine? Some new-media pundits are pointing to this as some sort of proof that tablets are an integral part of the r

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Sep 27, 2011
3 min

Different Tech Mindsets

oh look: a busted self-checkout station. surprise. David Ramos makes an interesting comment in this post about Adobe Muse from a few weeks ago: The quality of Muse’s code is not particularly relevant. Good code, bad code, no matter. Muse and other visual layout tools promote the idea that it’s possible to lay out a website exactly as one would lay out a page in InDesign: drop a paragraph on the left, scoot the headline over to the right, increase the spacing, and—et voila!—yo

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Sep 27, 2011
1 min

The Original Think Pad

Computer Revolution Trivia Dept.: IBM introduced the ThinkPad line of laptop computers in 1992. Back in the 1920s Thomas J. Watson, Sr, introduced “THINK” as an IBM slogan. For decades IBM distributed small notepads with the word “THINK” etched onto a brown leatherette cover to customers and employees. The name ThinkPad was suggested by IBM employee Denny Wainwright, who is reported to have had a “THINK” notepad in his pocket. Above and below, for your viewing pleasure, is

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Sep 26, 2011
1 min

Updates from Adobe, Errors from Apple

Detail of Muse's working screen. Couple of quick things today. Firstly, Adobe’s released beta version 3 of Muse, their site builder for designers. The download is here, and as stated previously, it’s free until its official 1.0 release. There are significant fixes in how the application renders code, so anything you build will be more readily accepted on a modern browser. Notably, when I first reviewed Muse, I pointed out that the typography wasn’t rendering because of errors

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Sep 21, 2011
1 min

Obscured Identity

this is what happens when you wear michael jackson's face. Uh, the world just got creepier with this fascinating tech/art mashup. These videos are proofs of concept for a real-time facial tracking and masking software. The basic idea is that using this software hooked up to your typical webcam/laptop setup, you can match a still image of a face onto your own. The facetracker tracks your facial movement and expression, rigs it with a mesh (explained last week), then masks your

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Sep 15, 2011
1 min

Tumblr Surpasses WordPress, We Think

Let’s dissect a media factoid, shall we? The other day, ReadWriteWeb posted what I can only assume was issued as a press release from Tumblr, saying that Tumblr now has eight times the pageviews of WordPress (dot com, the hosted service). I’m sure it was received with much breathlessness across the web, because frankly the web loves nothing more than watching a winner get the takedown. Anyway. This statement, despite what the ReadWriteWeb may think, might not actually be true

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Sep 7, 2011
2 min

Following Up From Yesterday

photo: flickr member G A R N E T Yesterday, David Ramos commented upon my conversation with Adobe’s Lea Hickman: Design curricula are failing to teach students how to work programmatically, and the best response, then, is to make software that tries to compensate for designers’ lack of knowledge? I can’t agree. …and I couldn’t agree more. In fact, that’s the actual reason I wrote the piece—to point out that our design schools are failing us, flat out, by not integrating techn

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Aug 31, 2011
2 min

Inkling

Wacom, known for their pen tablets, released a great little thinger earlier this week: a new dual-tool set called Inkling. Inkling is one-half pen, one-half receiver. The tool lets you digitize your handmade imagery as you work into layered PSD or vector files, and stores them in the tools until you can upload them to your main computer for further manipulation. The pen is a ball-point, but it’s also a pressure-sensitive stylus, allowing you to record the depth of your stroke

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Aug 23, 2011
3 min

A Special Delivery From Abe's Peanut

By Nicole Torres Remember the days of sending postcards, using stamps, and reading actual handwriting? Well, you might, but your kids are less likely to (with their eyes glued to iPads and Angry Birds and whatnot). Not to worry though— Abe’s Peanut, a literary and art publication for children, has a very creative approach to engaging today’s computer-oriented seven to 11-year-olds. Using the same format as Abe’s Penny, their original publication, Abe’s Peanut mails out origin

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PRINT Longreads: Building Braille

An Innovative New Line of Graphic Novels that Draw from Real Life

Designer of the Week: Lana Roulhac

Inside The New School’s Parsons School for Design’s New State-of-the-Art Computer Lab

Variable Fonts with Dan Rhatigan

Paula Scher Talks Technology in Design

On the Missing Narrative of the iPhone 7 Launch

Beyond the Graphic Novel: Is She Available?

Art for Comics and Storyboards: What’s the Difference?

A Stan Mack Cartoon Chronicle of Revolutions Foretold

Design Celebrating the First 2000 Years of Computing

A Magazine Is an iPad That Doesn’t Work

Different Tech Mindsets

The Original Think Pad

Updates from Adobe, Errors from Apple

Obscured Identity

Tumblr Surpasses WordPress, We Think

Following Up From Yesterday

Inkling

A Special Delivery From Abe's Peanut

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