With the arrival of Brat, it feels like the Y2K revival is finally cresting. Beyoncé has moved on from channeling Corona to country. Pink Pantheress has moved on from singing over 1997 drum n’ bass classics. It’s juiced, I think. Now we can see what it is clearly—the sounds, materials, cuts, and design from a […]
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I spent the weekend being utterly dismantled and emotionally wrecked by The Wild Robot. I think it helped that I went in completely blind – somehow I’d made it all the way to the cinema without having seen a single clip of the film, so I had no idea what to expect. The whole thing
It’s election day in the US, and what better moment to showcase an exhibition that celebrates speaking truth to power? Characters: Type in Action, at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), is a collaboration between Vocal Type and experiential design studio Civilization. It examines the impact of typography on the fight for social justice through
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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. Alex Daly is the founder of comms+
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Last week I wrote about how recyclable, hateful, divisive and derisive language has long been a nasty part of American political discourse—but to borrow the hyperbole of candidate Trump, never before in history was so much spewed than at his recent beautiful Madison Square Garden rally. Fittingly, a group of artists sought to memorialize the
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Join Us Thursday, November 21, at 4 p.m. ET! At our November PRINT Book Club, we’ll welcome Nicolas Heller, aka New York Nico for a discussion of his new book, New York Nico’s Guide to NYC. Nicolas Heller is the son of PRINT’s Steven Heller and artist Louis Fili. In our recent interview with the
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The word “conference” might send a shiver down one’s spine. Visions of dreary convention centers, stuffy corporate speakers, and lukewarm atrium coffee are enough to make even the most grizzled corporate soldiers run for the hills. But what if I told you it didn’t have to be this way? via Sofia Negron Armin Vit and
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We started from East 79th Street, my mother used to tell me. We’d put you in the carriage and wheel you up to Carl Schurz Park over by the river, and then we’d turn around and head downtown, as far as we could go. My father and I, Central Park Sailboat Pond, June 1963 I
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Join us for this weekly conversation between photographer Craig Cutler and illustrator Craig Frazier, whose collaboration is a testament to the unexpected alchemy of creative play. The Two Craigs project consists of one weekly prompt interpreted by the pair for 52 weeks. Check out the full series as it unfolds. Go backstage on the Two
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most witty satires. The wry humor of the book is only equaled by the skillful way the author weaves real life, fantasy and tragedy into a compelling whole. The protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, travels back and forth between a far-off utopian planet, a more recent horrific wartime firestorm, and life
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