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Joe Caroff died on August 17, just a day short of turning 104 years old. (See his New York Times obituary here.) The following is a remembrance originally published on PRINT in 2021. It should not be surprising that the creators of some of the most well-known graphic design images are on the record as […]

In 1974, William Stout Architectural Books first opened its doors in San Francisco. The bookstore offered new and out-of-print books on architecture, design, and theory then, and that’s precisely what they offer now, 50 years later. What Stout didn’t have in the 1970s was a groovy brand identity reflective of their ethos and history, yet

The PRINT Book Club supports independent bookstores as an affiliate of Bookshop.org.If you make a purchase through the book links below, PRINT may earn a small commission. Did you miss our PRINT Book Club with Chip Kidd? Register here to watch the recording and buy your copy of The Veracity Trap. What would happen if

This week on the DesignThinkers podcast, host Nicola Hamilton is joined by Rachel Gogel. Gogel is an independent creative executive shaping the future of design at the intersection of brand, culture, and technology. After building multidisciplinary teams at places like GQ, The New York Times, Meta, and Godfrey Dadich, Gogel launched her consultancy in 2020.

What America needs is a gute 5-cent tsigar, a spritz of 2-cent zeltzer and a vocabulary of choice Yiddishisms to make it through the day. Thanks to Frank Baseman of Base Press, A Collection of Yiddish Words, Volume 1 makes the latter available to all. Baseman has compiled and illustrated this delightful book (24 pages

When I spoke to Sharp Type’s co-founders, Chantra Malee and Lucas Sharp, a little over a year ago, the indie foundry was embarking on an adventure of sorts. Officially, Sharp Type was celebrating the parallel launch of a new website and “Season Two” of the retail type catalog. Candidly, the team was seeking more dynamism

Debbie Millman’s ongoing project “What Matters,” an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers, is now in its third year. Each respondent is invited to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph. Bill Hannigan is the founder of ATTA, AUGUST and OTTO. He exhibits his own photographs and

Some readers will know Karel Teige as a progressive graphic designer, photographer, constructivist typographer and member of the Prague interwar avant garde. Others may know his books, writing and book designs. I count myself a follower of Teige, who worked in parallel with Ladislav Sutnar, but I was not familiar with his cultural criticism, nor

The Polo Ralph Lauren for Oak Bluffs Collection, launched in July 2025, celebrates the historic Black community on Martha’s Vineyard. Here, Black families have bought property, vacationed, and found rest and community since the early 20th century, when most beaches were segregated. The collection speaks to the legacy of this Oak Bluffs community, capturing the

Header photo of Hugh Hefner (left) and Art Paul (right) from “Art Paul Of Playboy” (above) A few years before Art Paul died in 2018 at 93 years old, I hosted an AIGA conversation with him at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Rumors had circulated that there could be a protest over his long relationship