Before we launch the new season of The PRINT Awards, we wanted to take another look at some of our favorite winning entries from this year. In the coming weeks, we’ll highlight stellar creative work across the breadth of categories. The 2025 PRINT Awards will open for entries in early November 2024. Be sure to […]
ATX’s Guerilla Suit Delivers a Double-Dose of Hometown Brand Love Read More »
“The Cathedral” by the sculptor, wood engraver and editorial illustrator James Grashow, is completely carved out of basswood. Unveiled in September, it has been one hell of a weight on his shoulders: “I never did anything like it before,” he told me. Grashow has made mammoth pieces out of paper and cardboard. “Of course I
The Daily Heller: For James Grashow, a Weight Has Finally Lifted Read More »
This industry op-ed is by Steve Pearce, managing director at LOVE. Trend forecasting season is upon us, and with it, we get a glimpse of what will be big in the next year or so. Whether it’s emerging styles, innovative new materials, or broader industry shifts, trend reports are a useful starting point for us
Your Trend Reports Aren’t Cutting It Read More »
As a fan of Samira Kawash’s “Candy Professor” blog, I was delighted when she came out with a book on the social history of candy in the U.S. When The Weekly Standard asked me to review a screed called Packaged Pleasures, I asked to incorporate Kawash’s more reasonable work in the review. You can read
How Candy Conquered Halloween Read More »
Select Your Favorite New Visual Artist! Community Choice Voting Open Through November 8, 2024 Beginning in 1998 and running through 2017, the PRINT New Visual Artists competition identified some of the best, most inventive young creative people working today. This year we reintroduced the competition and today we’re thrilled to introduce some of the best,
PRINT New Visual Artists: Meet the Class of 2024 Read More »
Few arenas showcase the complexities of branding quite like a political campaign, where every detail — from visual choices to policy priorities — feeds into public perception and resonates differently with each voter demographic. As a designer and brand strategist, I’m fascinated by the ways brand, identity, and social issues intersect in the world of
Five Design Leaders on the Evolution of the Female Presidential Candidate Read More »
In 2017, I read an interview that Kaveh Akbar gave to Lithub titled Bewilderment is at the core of every great poem. In the interview, Akbar explained his belief that poets have to be “permeable to wonder.” He spoke about how holding fast to discovering wonder in a world that is truthfully not wonderful is the
I’m Wondering: What’s The Best Bird? Read More »
Each year, RGD asks a different Canadian design agency or studio to tackle the conference identity. In these shorter episodes, host Nicola Hamilton will speak with some of those folks—past DesignThinkers Design Partners. In this episode, Hamilton catches up with Tina Mackenzie RGD Emeritus. Mackenzie is a very accomplished graphic design manager. In 2012, the
DesignThinkers Podcast: Tina Mackenzie RGD Emeritus Read More »
Conventional wisdom holds that there’s a magazine for every audience … but that’s often utterly wrong, as Hira Ahmed discovered. So she decided to make it right and launch the one she wanted to read. “When I dreamed up this idea, there was no place for Muslims of a left-leaning political ideology to engage in
Meet Acacia, a New Print Magazine for the Muslim Left Read More »
One of the constant talking points seasoned with lies and sarcasm at the Madison Square Garden MAGA rally this past Sunday was who is a bona fide American and what it takes to be one, since naturalized citizenship is not the only measure. Recently, designer Andy Outis collaborated with journalist David Margolick on a series
The Daily Heller: ‘Who Are The Real Americans?’ Takes Center Stage Read More »
