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The Accident of Modern Art

by Steven Heller · 0 comments

Let's just agree that this cartoon from 1897 titled "The Impressionist Landscape," needs no explanation. Or does it?

PST 5:01. Printing Processes and Designer Difficulties

by Michael Dooley January 27, 2012

David Mayes is proud to be a CMYK guy in an RGB world. He's in sales – and community outreach – at Typecraft Wood & Jones. This Pasadena, CA company has roots dating back to 1907 and a reputation for handling the most demanding designers. Clients range from universities and non-profits to museums and fine [...]

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Hipster Typefaces of the 20s and 30s

by Steven Heller January 27, 2012

Modern was austere. Modernistic was joyful and riotous. Once the style was introduced to the world in Paris at the Exposition internationale des arts et Decoratifs Industrieles modernes in 1925, this ornamental sensibility quickly became the vogue for all the applied arts throughout the industrialized and commercialized world. Between the world wars, design entrepreneurs understood [...]

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A Downton Out of a Molehill

by Steven Heller January 26, 2012

The BBC made a hilarious two-part Downton Abbey parody -- Uptown Downstairs Abbey -- for the annual Red Nose Day charity. Narrated by Michael Gambon, the two-parts feature Absolutely Fabulous’ Jennifer Saunders as a marvelously nasty Dowager Countess, her AbFab co-star Joanna Lumley as a housekeeper who knows that she is meant for a posher [...]

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State of Deception

by Ellen Shapiro January 26, 2012

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What is the role of the printed word and image in collectively inciting societies to brand certain members and groups as evil, and to convince the citizenry to condone—if not incite—murder? During a recent visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, I was reeducated in the power of branding—especially as applied to poster design—at the special exhibition, State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, which demonstrates how the Nazi party used carefully crafted messages, advertising and design techniques, and then-new technologies (radio, television, film) to sway millions with its vision for a new Germany.

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Words of Wisdom

by Seymour Chwast January 26, 2012

An inspirational message for today, #24. (Submit your favorite quote via Twitter or Facebook and Seymour will consider it for future Chwast Quotes!) Read more inspirational messages from Seymour Chwast. Resources Recommended by Imprint Available now: Print Magazine's Guest Art Director Digital Collection Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic give a live DesignCast on The Design of Dissent. Register now! Get an inside look at [...]

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His Name is Lucian, But Everyone Knows Him as Bernhard

by Steven Heller January 26, 2012

The Priester Match poster designed in 1906 by Lucian Bernhard is a watershed document of modern graphic design. Its composition is so stark and its colors so starling that it captures the viewer's eye in an instant. Before Preister, persuasive simplicity was a rare thing in most advertising: posters, especially tended to be wordy and [...]

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Getting to the Core of the Matter

by Steven Heller January 25, 2012

Core77 2012 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners, expanding categories, leveraging online scale, increasing transparency and decreasing plane fuel in the process. "For our second year, we present 17 categories of entry, providing designers, researchers and writers a unique opportunity to communicate the intent, rigor and passion behind their [...]

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How to Cover a Revolution

by Mirko Ilic January 25, 2012

Every publication makes a decisive choice about the tone it wants to set when it comes to covering a revolution. One obvious approach over the years is to use edgy, gritty, journalistic photography on the cover to capture the seriousness of the events. But often those images, no matter how hard hitting, pale in comparison [...]

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On the Roadside Sign Again

by Gail Anderson January 25, 2012

I've been slightly obsessed with portable roadside signage since I first encountered a stretch of white boxes with flashing red arrows along Route 28 in upstate New York. I'd certainly seen that form of advertising before, but didn't realize how ubiquitous it was throughout rural America (or admittedly, what little I know of rural America). [...]

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