The exhibition "Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)" opened at LA's Skirball Center this week. Having admired the show from afar, I was excited to go to a public "conversation" Tuesday night between Kalman and the curator Ingrid...
Oil & Water
Screen printers out there will appreciate Anthony Burill's poster "Oil and Water Do Not Mix," which is printed from oil gathered from a beach in Louisiana after the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Prints are for sale and proceeds support the Coalitio...
Is (web) Design Dead?
In an essay on wired.com Dylan Tweney posits that we have reached the age of the "Undesigned Web." Since content and design are coded separately, content can essentially free float, allowing users to access it from various media striped of its ori...
Two For the Road
* Kate Murphy in the NYT provides an analysis of the typographic choices of politicians vying for positions in the 2010 election cycle. Her conclusion: Candidates???of both parties???have made a conscious move away from Obama's '08 Gotham and other "m...
NYC's urbancanvas Competition
Yesterday NYC Mayor Bloomberg revealed the winners of the city's urbancanvas Design Competition which challenged participants to create artwork to decorate those usually boring protective structures that surround construction sites???an initiative t...
Radioactive Anticipation for Lauren Redniss's Latest Book
I have trouble reading long handwritten texts and consequently have never gotten into graphic novels and comic books, so the fact that I read Lauren Redniss's 2007 book Century Girl in a single sitting attests to her abilities both as an artist an...
Markets of Britain by Lee Titt
So this video isn't design related, but I think everyone can benefit from a few minutes of well-executed deadpan. via Amy Sedaris's list of top five viral videos for New York Magazine
Buried Alive! Vintage Posters Discovered in London Underground
During renovations to the Notting Hill Gate tube station, Mikey Ashworth of the London Underground found a treasure trove of old posters on the walls of an elevator passageway, which had been sealed off during construction in the 1950s. Check out ...
Psst: The Dolphin Studio Calendar
A couple of years ago an art director friend gave me a gorgeous holiday gift: A calendar from The Dolphin Studio of Stockbridge, MA. I have since started giving them as gifts myself, and now receive an annual reminder when the next batch is hot of...
Kindle Plugin for InDesign
Amazon recently released a beta version of a plugin for InDesign that allows user to convert INDD files to Kindle format. The company already provided ways to digitize and self-publish texts via Kindle???all free???and now this makes it easier to publ...