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Pulled
by Dan
Art & Photography / May 24, 2011
Andy Warhol popularized it in the 1960s, and screen printing remains a favourite with artists, illustrators, designers and crafters today — it's versatile, cheap, fast, a little dirty, and (let's face it) really, really cool.
Designer Mike Perry screened his first shirt in college (and wore it later that night!) and his new book Pulled collects the work of more than 40 contemporary artists who are doing new and interesting things with the technique, including Aesthetic Apparatus, Deanne Cheuk, Steven Harrington, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Jeremyville, Andy Mueller, Rinzen, and Andy Smith (among others). The book is a survey and a how-to, a collection of prints and an idea bank. And (let's face it) really, really cool...
AND if you like the sound of Pulled, you might want to check out Mike's two previous best-selling books Hand Job: A Catalog of Type and Over & Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns. They're also really, really good.
Beer
by Dan
Design & Typography + Vancouver / April 25, 2011
I just arrived this morning in Vancouver for Raincoast's Fall 2011 Sales Conference and, with 4 days of meetings ahead of me, my mind has (strangely enough) already turned to beer!
Fortunately, we hold our conference in the lovely Listel Hotel in downtown Vancouver and, coming in from Toronto, it's always great to have some local beer and catch up with my west-coast colleagues in the bar at the end of the day.
This sales conference tradition is also the perfect excuse to post this hilarious video for Vancouver Craft Beer Week 2011, which starts May 6th:
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Movember Update
by Dan
Design & Typography + News / November 19, 2010
We're more than halfway through Movember, and Vancouver-based designer Mark Stokoe has just produced this beautiful typographic animated short to promote the Raincoast effort:
Thinking With Type Revised Edition
by Dan
Design & Typography / October 13, 2010
The 2nd (revised and updated!) edition of Princeton Architectural Press' best-selling book Thinking With Type has just been released. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. The popular online companion to the book — www.thinkingwithtype.com — has been revised to reflect the new material. Here is a screenshot:
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Art of McSweeney’s Video
by Dan
Design & Typography / June 24, 2010
A novel with each cover hand-illustrated by the author... Literary journals bound by magnets, or designed to look like junk mail... The sharp wit, gorgeous design, and playful "why not?" invention of independent literary publisher McSweeney's have earned it a large and loyal following and made its journals, books, The Believer magazine, and Wholphin DVD's collectible favorites of readers and graphic designers alike.
Created by the McSweeney's staff to commemorate their 11th (or 12th) anniversary, The Art of McSweeney's showcases all their award-winning art and design. It features 100's of images, interviews with collaborators such as Chris Ware and Michael Chabon, and dozens of insights into McSweeney's quirky creative process and the visual experience of reading:
Design Currency
by Dan
Design & Typography / April 08, 2010
Here's a lovely (and super-clever) animated short by local design/advertising agency Rethink Communications to help promote Icograda Design Week In Vancouver:
Design Week is 26 - 30 April 2010. The theme of the event is "Design Currency: Defining the Value of Design."
(via It's Nice That)
Vancouver’s Historical Advertisements
by Dan
Design & Typography + Vancouver / February 23, 2010
A little treasure trove for vintage type and design buffs, The City of Vancouver Archives have posted some historical advertisements on their website, including these gems from Henderson's City of Vancouver Directory for 1907:
And, if you like those ads, you might also be interested in The Handy Book of Artistic Printing by Doug Clouse and Angelas Voulangas.
Published published by Princeton Architecture Press, the book reproduces more than 150 examples of period ephemera, including printers' promotional pieces, specimens of type and ornament (and it's gorgeous).
There's more information about the book at the authors' website.
Typographics
by Dan
Design & Typography + Vancouver / February 22, 2010
"Typography is what language looks like" — Ellen Lupton
Typographics is a short film about the basics of typography created by Vancouver Film School students Boca (aka Marcos Ceravolo) and Ryan Uhrich through the VFS Digital Design program:
The film references designer, typographer, and educator Ellen Lupton, whose books include Thinking With Type, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and DIY: Design It Yourself and more. Her new book Exploring Materials: Creative Design for Everyday Objects will be published by Princeton Architectural Press later this spring.
Typeface The Movie!
by Dan
Design & Typography / January 14, 2010
"In rural Wisconsin, a lone employee waits in a cavernous old museum for visitors to come. A few individuals straggle in every few days and then, come Friday, the museum fills with life. Machines hum, presses print, artists buzz about. One weekend each month, the quiet of Two Rivers is interrupted as carloads of artisans drive in from across the Midwest. The place comes alive as printmaking workshops led by, and filled with, some of the nations top design talent descend on the sleepy enclave."
The documentary Typeface explores the twilight of the analogue craft preserved at The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI.
But the film also reveals there is hope of a revival of wood type as contemporary designers and artisans meet the museum's retired craftsmen and together use the traditional techniques of wood type printing to create modern designs.
I can't wait to see this! Sadly Typeface has currently has selected screenings in the US. Let's hope they bring it to Canada really, really soon!
In the meantime you might want to check out:
The Handy Book of Artistic Printing by Doug Clouse and Angelas Voulangas
Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design by Tamye Riggs
Lettering and Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces by Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals
Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Letterpress Shop by Jim Sherraden, Elek Horvath and Paul Kingsbury
Q & A with Ellen Lupton
by Dan
Author Q & A + Design & Typography / May 28, 2008
Pages Books and Magazines in Toronto has posted my new author Q & A with writer and designer Ellen Lupton, the author, co-author or editor of SKIN: SURFACE, SUBSTANCE + DESIGN; THINKING WITH TYPE; D.I.Y.: DESIGN IT YOURSELF; D.I.Y. KIDS; and most recently GRAPHIC DESIGN: THE NEW BASICS.
In the Q & A, Ellen and I discuss design, typography, post-modernism, and the movie Helvetica amongst other things...
Anyone who wants to engage with typography should immerse themselves in some typographic history. If you are a designer, poet, writer, indie filmmaker, or underground craftista, it's good to know where your fonts come from. The movie Helvetica did a fantastic job showing the origins of one particular font; more significantly, the film showed how the meaning of the font has changed from generation to generation.
Click here for the Pages Q & A with Ellen Lupton
Click here for Ellen Lupton's webpage
Click here for Ellen's blog Design Your Life
(Photo credit: Jason Knauer)
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