Posts tagged as:

illustration

Words of Wisdom

by Seymour Chwast December 1, 2011

An inspirational message for today, #16 Read more inspirational messages from Seymour Chwast. Resources Recommended by Imprint Available now: Print Magazine's Guest Art Director Digital Collection Register now for expert help on running an in-house design studio Get an inside look at logo design from Chermayeff & Geismar Design TV: Improve your design skills with help from experts in the design industry.

Read the full article →

Long Beach Comic Con: My "7 Highlights" List

by Michael Dooley November 23, 2011

These days, the so-called San Diego "Comic"-Con's main attraction is sugary TV and movie confectionery. But if you enjoy graphic novels and cartoons – and, well, scary stuff – you may have attended the recent Comic & Horror Con at Long Beach, CA's Convention Center. While SDCC has been around for over 40 years, [...]

Read the full article →

Death on the Mountain

by Aaron Kenedi November 22, 2011

It's end-of-the-year, new-calendar time again. You might be tempted by cats wearing silly hats, or hot girls on the hood of cars, or fast airplanes or cute babies. OR, if you want to try something completely different, you could go with artist Abbey Luck's little twisted gem, "Death on the Mountain", a collection of sad, [...]

Read the full article →

Words of Wisdom

by Seymour Chwast November 10, 2011

An inspirational message for today, #13 Read more inspirational messages from Seymour Chwast.

Read the full article →

Love, New York Times Style

by Ben King November 9, 2011

Last Thursday, The New York Times opened its doors, and its heart, for an exhibition of illustrations by Brian Rea and Christopher Silas Neal. Culled from their fruitful output for Modern Love—a much beloved column in the paper’s Sunday Styles section—the work speaks for itself, of course, but also for the talent and intelligence of [...]

Read the full article →

Books That Didn't Make the Cut

by Steven Heller November 8, 2011

In the days before PDFs, we who wanted to sell books to publishers made dummies. Sometimes they were just a few pasted together pages, other times virtually the entire book was dummied up. I would produce one dummy a week. Too many ideas - most of them bad. Although there is no accounting for taste, [...]

Read the full article →

Rereading Bob Gill for the First Time

by Ben King November 4, 2011

It is in no way hyperbolic to say that Bob Gill’s latest book, Bob Gill, So Far (Laurence King, $50), should be required reading in every design school. Additionally, it should have a place on all right-thinking designers’ bookshelves. In fact, the only argument against buying this work by one of America’s greatest graphic thinkers is [...]

Read the full article →

Words of Wisdom

by Seymour Chwast November 3, 2011

An inspirational message for today, #12 Read more inspirational messages from Seymour Chwast.

Read the full article →

Behind the Scenes of "Lucky"

by Debbie Millman November 2, 2011

Since July of 2010, I have been creating monthly visual essays for Imprint. These pieces are part art, part poetry, part storytelling and part design. They combine poetry and prose, illustrations, photography, paper sculpture or three-dimensional typography to create the visual language of my life. For the last two months, my voice has been absent from [...]

Read the full article →