A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients-powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making.
Written and produced by Ian Daffern
Directed and Edited by Tate Young
The Typeface Memory Game designed by excellent Brazilian studio PS2 is now available in a new edition at Bis Publisher.
FILE Magazine is a bi-annual publication featuring a broad selection of visual communication in the fields of graphic design, art, photography, fashion and moving image. Beautifully presented in a 30 x 39 cm hard cover with a full colour 96 pages newsprint stitched inside. Each issue is accompanied by a full-screen online player, Screening in full the issue’s short films, music videos and documentaries. A magazine to Watch & Read.
Back in 2000, Threadless was as an online design competition based in a Chicago bedroom. Over the past decade, the groundbreaking website became a global t-shirt phenomenon and one of the internet’s most creative and vibrant communities.
Threadless: Ten Years of T-Shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community (Abrams Image; September 2010; US $22.50 / CAN $26.95; 978-0-8109-9610-6) is an epic tenth anniversary celebration that brings together outstanding graphics and a fascinating story in one funny, clever, beautiful, and totally insane book.
Today, the Threadless community has over one million members and a vast archive of inventive designs, the very best of which are showcased here. More than a compilation of eye-catching tees, Threadless also gives the history behind what Inc. magazine hails as “the most innovative small company in America.â€
Featuring cofounder Jake Nickell’s own year-by-year account of the Threadless story, “think pieces†from influential admirers like Seth Godin, design guru John Maeda, and Jeff Howe of Wired, and profiles of the community’s favorite designers, Threadless celebrates ten extraordinary years of a company at the forefront of today’s cultural landscape.
Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera. Documenting, preserving and providing public access to these original materials will raise the profile of Graphic Design as a source of educational, historical and scholarly analysis for teachers, students, designers and independent researchers. From the rational to the experimental to the playful – our collection is varied and represents a distinct point of view about mid-century graphic design, typography and beyond.
Display is organized and designed by Kind Company, an independent web and print design office in Brooklyn, New York. Alongside client work, KindCo engages in self-initiated graphic design history projects. Their websites for the Alvin Lustig Archive and Helvetica and the New York City Subway System help generate inspiration and awareness about graphic design history, pioneers and artifacts. Partners – Greg D’Onofrio and Patricia Belen – are practicing designers, graphic design history enthusiasts, collectors and aspiring writers.
