Interviews

Those wild and crazy Bauhaus boys and girls, with their improv jazz band and beach antics and clownish poses. They weren't just dedicated students at what was probably the most influential design school in the 20th century. They were also partying hearty in 1920s Germany… before Fascism put a brutal end to this hotbed of [...]

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How do you know when you’ve officially “made it” as a designer? Forget winning prestigious design awards, having your work featured in coveted magazines, or even scoring the biggest clients. We're talking license plates, baby! In a wild attempt to woo designer/typographer Jessica Hische to speak at Pennsylvania's Society of Design, Lancaster-based Go Welsh design studio conceived [...]

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Hitler declared his paintings degenerate. Of course, Lyonel Feininger was actually one of the 20th century's most important American avant-garde artists: at various times a Cubist, Expressionist, and Secessionist. He's also well known as one of the Bauhaus's original faculty, and was even a distinguished newspaper comic strip artist. But a photographer? Really? Truth is, [...]

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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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This is the second half of my interview with Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon, curators of Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961 – 1976, a Pacific Standard Time exhibition currently at the Armory Center for the Arts. In part one we discussed Berman and Heinecken as designers, jokesters, and rear-guard revolutionaries. . [...]

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Several decades before AdBusters, there was Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken. Hardly anyone knew that these two media-manipulating L.A. hipster artists were intimates, beginning in the early 1960s. But now their relationship has been exposed to the public for the very first time. Naked women are also involved. A lot of naked women. And drugs [...]

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John Flansburgh and John Linnell, the cofounders of They Might Be Giants, aren’t just known for brainy, unconventional indie rock. They also have a history of working with great graphic designers and artists—Helene Silverman, Barbara Glauber, Marcel Dzama, and Sam Potts. So when Flansburgh emailed Paul Sahre an invitation to work with the group on its [...]

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It is way too easy to spend money at Greenwich Letterpress. Without fail, I manage to leave with some extremely necessary item each time I visit the sunny West Village shop — a journal, some letterpress greeting cards, or maybe a book plate — you know, life’s staples. I am a girl on a tight [...]

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Andrew Jones, publisher of the photography journal, Once Magazine, says "We think that our approach to multimedia in the infant field of tablet publishing is an effort not to be ignored. The basic storytelling unit is the fullscreen photograph. And we have excited the professional photography community with our new revenue-sharing business model. Which means [...]

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As a filmmaker who is interested in design, Raafi Rivero (of The Color Machine) says he "zealously consumes writing on the topic, often with an eye to how it might be translated to my time-based medium." A year ago he interviewed "one of my creative heroes, Khoi Vinh (former Design Director at NYTimes.com and current [...]

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