In celebration of over 333+ posts and over two years of comeraderie, it is time for the next phase of the 47th… To start a magazine! John and I are putting together a project involving: accordion folds, paper cut-outs, secret formulas, and brilliant submissions from YOU! HURRAH! I am including the submissions letter and some [...]
The CR Blog has a great post (When Objects Become Magazines) about a magazine exhibition. They’re all pretty great but I think my favorite might be Arkitip, just because it’s closest to I’d like to be doing myself.
I also really like the idea behind T-Post.
Check out the full article: When Objects Become Magazines
Fwis (www.fwis.com), beloved for their little ReadyMech cut and paste toys (and for the pinhole cameras for Corbis, above). I just learned that they also have a Covers blog, a commentary on contemporary book design (that is short and pithy). (Print’s NVA profile)
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Holly Gressley [...]
I confess to being one of those little girls that snuck nancy drews into bed, in order to read (until the end of the chapter, of course!) under the covers with a flashlight long after my bedtime. My obsession with mysteries has stuck: Ms. Marple, Adam Dalgleish, the 87th precinct, Hitchcock’s Stories Not for the [...]
8 days left in the GOOD/threadless shirt design competition!
Submit anytime from:
Dec 15 ‘07 through Jan 15 ‘08
Submissions close at 11:59:59 pm CST
Theme:
“Big Ideas”
A bit about GOOD magazine: wins the award for information graphics, both in print and in video; describes itself as media for folks that give a damn. An interesting and honest idea, responding to a collective [...]
I.Q.s around the world appear to be rising by three points per decade. Working backwards, this means that a century ago the US population consisted mostly by folks who today would be considered mentally retarded. So what is I.Q. really measuring? Modernity!
Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting article/review of James Flynn’s “What is Intelligence” in the [...]