Art

As a lifelong lover of good design — and good pasta sauce — it’s not every day that I see a sauce label that stops me in my tracks. But this holiday season, Rao’s Homemade has done just that. The beloved purveyor of premium Italian sauces has teamed up with New York-based artist Timothy Goodman […]

A small brown bird is dead in the backyard. No sign of how or why. I think it might have run into the garage window but the window is shuttered, not reflective. Still, the bird is dead. The dog sniffs it until I yell: let it rest. J shovels the bird gently into a blue

This week’s guest is Robert Wong. Wong was born Chinese, grew up Dutch, was Canadian, and is now American. While studying to become an accountant in Toronto, Wong woke up one day, flew to New York, and became a graphic designer instead. Wong is best known for his time leading design at Starbucks and as

Identity Politics is a column written by veteran journalist Susan Milligan, covering the big issues in the socio-political ether as they intersect with design, art, and other modes of visual communication. Inside Europe’s iconic cathedral was a tragic lineup of man-made disruption and grim foreboding. There was the host, French President Emmanuel Macron, whose government

It is a classic political murder thriller, a film set in the shadow of France’s show of force to thwart the Algerian anti-colonialist revolution and Charles DeGaulle’s retreat. The Day of the Jackal (1973) was about the anti-DeGaulle faction that so vehemently sought to retain French colonies that they conspired to have the President assassinated.

For the second year, PRINT asked some of the most creative people we know what they are excited to give (and get) this year. Look for daily gift inspiration*, now through the holidays. (*These are NOT affiliate links. The gifts on our list are shared as recommendations from our creative community.) David Sieren “Prints, publications,

In the Summer of 1980, photographer Lisa Barlow was following the curve of Connecticut’s Route 69 in a beat-up rental car, when she came across a giant cross looming above the highway. Intrigued by the miniature replica of Jerusalem she found, she soon fell in love with the people who lived nearby. Decades later, Barlow’s

As we wind down the year in type, here’s a sampling of gift ideas for the type lover in your life. Sista Said: Words of Wisdom from Black Women in Social Justice & the Arts We love this set of postcards for its serendipitousness. You’ll get a random selection of three hand-pressed works by Amos

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. British illustrator and author Marion Deuchars publishes

Sample books have a special place in the archives of graphic and type design. They are, at the same time, examples of letters and entire alphabets and examples of the way the respective typefaces can be used in real and speculative layouts. Many years ago, I stumbled across a rare bookshop in upstate New York