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Where Creativity Blossoms, Innovation Thrives The PRINT Awards have long been a beacon of excellence in the world of design, recognizing creativity across a wide array of categories. As we embrace the expanding experience of the creative community, we’ve added two new categories for 2025: Title Sequence Design and Graphic Novels, celebrating the intersection of […]

Democracy is on trial, but it worked in one respect. People voted without incident. A candidate won. And the razor-thin margins that were predicted did not come to pass. So, you might say that democracy won, this time around. This year ThoughtMatter designed a provocative mural adapted from Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World,

This month has been rough for a lot of us. I allowed myself to be in my sadness. I have learned that what helps in moments of heartache or anxiety or fear is disconnecting from the thing that is making it worse (hey, breaking news alerts), focusing on my breath, slowing my heart rate, and

This week’s guest is Michael Johnson. He set up Johnson Banks in 1992, after a decade spent learning design, branding, and art direction across the globe. His company is known for how they define, then design, brands that make a difference. ‘Do great work for good people’ is their mantra. Johnson has produced an enviable

I spent a good portion of last weekend streaming a six-part documentary series about the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, and another about Cream’s Disraeli Gears album. This post is not about either, although I recommend them. Rather, this is about hair, and what it meant to have long, flowing, wavy locks back in the

So I finally finished Ripley and now I’m a little obsessed with Caravaggio. Specifically, how his work appears in the show – in stark black and white. The result is quite stunning, accentuating the chiaroscuro contrasts in Caravaggio’s paintings while presenting them as something new. Would love it if Taschen put out a special Ripley

Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers. This facet of the project is a request of each invited respondent to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph. Sarah Moffat is the global chief creative

The 2025 PRINT Awards honor the beauty of creativity in full bloom. Design creativity blooms in spaces where curiosity meets intention, where ideas are nurtured into forms that resonate and inspire. It’s a process marked by exploration, experimentation, and the willingness to challenge conventions to uncover new perspectives. In this fertile ground, creativity is more

On June 3, 2001, Chris Ware’s design of the special Summer Reading issue of The New York Times Book Review published to a chorus of shock and awe. It had become customary that the illustrator conceive a thematic visual concept that was followed throughout the issue from cover to cover (usually around 10–12 illustrations). I

There’s nothing quite as disheartening as taking your lunch break or coming home after a long day, dreaming of a satisfying sandwich, only to bite into dry bread and flavorless condiments, leaving you dreaming of a better bite. Molly Baz, two-time New York Times bestselling cookbook author and self-proclaimed “sandwich freak” is on a mission