Designer Interviews
Imprint's designer interviews reveal the thought process of top designers and art directors. The Q&As encompass conversations with numerous design leaders, and each designer interview provides insights on how these masters create such consistently accomplished work. Our yearly New Visual Artists roundups include web designer profiles along with perspectives from the younger generation of designers.
Postcards from the Edge: An Interview with Jim Heimann
by J.C. Gabel November 20, 2012When I was a kid, I loved to buy postcards from places along the route of my family’s dreaded annual road trip. This was 1980s America, so most of the postcards—unless they were vintage-inspired or found at thrift stores—had no charm and reeked of boosterism. They offered little visual delight, but the ones that didn’t [...]
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Fake Products, Real Feelings: Rob Walker on His Exhibition of Branding Experiments
by Michael Stasiak November 15, 2012Between his long-running Consumed column for The New York Times Magazine and his 2008 book, Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, it is highly probable that nobody thinks about brands, products, and their significance as much as Rob Walker. Starting today, apexart in Lower Manhattan will host "As Real [...]
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Gilded-Age Dogs Atop Penny-Farthings: A Tour of Philadelphia University’s Patterns Archive
by Jude Stewart November 9, 2012Imprint's longtime color columnist, Jude Stewart, is writing a new series on patterns in design. Previously, she asked whether ornament is really a crime and spoke to the founders of a London-based "pattern consultancy." As part of my new series on pattern, I spoke recently with Sarah Moore, the textile curator of Philadelphia University’s Design Center. Moore is [...]
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A Type-Design Dialogue: Alexander Tochilovsky on the Cooper Union's Dueling Typography Exhibitions
by Mason Currey November 7, 2012Through the end of next week, New Yorkers have a chance to catch two snapshots of contemporary typeface design (and type-design education) with a pair of exhibitions at the Cooper Union."Types We Can Make" is a selection of new Swiss typeface design, curated by François Rappo and Pierre Keller from ECAL/University of Art and Design [...]
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Comics/FX Artist on Gore Garters, Sequential Paintings, and the Benefits of Taste Over Skill
by Michael Dooley October 31, 2012Meaghan O'Keefe is among her people. She's in a comics shop in Burbank, California, at a release party for her first graphic novel, a dark terror tale titled Identity Thief, written by Bryant Dillon. Most of the crowd are wearing goth black. A few are sporting Mohawks, including her boyfriend, Robert Burrows. Burrows illustrated Something [...]
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From the Mundane to the Magnificent: A Q&A with Patternity
by Jude Stewart October 22, 2012Rarely does a design studio’s sensibility assert itself as strongly as that of Patternity, the London-based "pattern consultancy" founded by Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham in 2009. With their positively addicting photo Tumblr, Murray (an art director ) and Winteringham (a textile and surface designer) curate a previously unseen world of pattern, roving restlessly from [...]
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The Disturbing, Ethereal Comics of C.S. Pego, a Mexican Artist in Exile
by Michael Dooley October 19, 2012I first met Cecilia "C.S." Pego in Artists’ Alley at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. A native of Mexico City, she was there to promote her new graphic novel, Exilia: The Invisible Path. I found it visually stunning, not to mention a welcome relief from all the soulless superhero stuff. In the first half of our interview, [...]
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Mexico’s Graphic Novel Diva on Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Progressive Politics
by Michael Dooley October 12, 2012Cecilia “C.S.” Pego established a reputation in her native Mexico as “La Diva de la Novela Grafica Mexicana.” Her characteristic use of bold blacks give her comics their graphic power. But her art continues to evolve in sophistication. Sardonia y Chamuco, her 1990s editorial strip, has an hallucinogenic, Skip Williamson–like underground comix intensity. Her jagged, spiky Terrora [...]
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My First Portfolio: Scott Stowell
by Print staff October 11, 2012This month, ahead of the deadline for Print's inaugural Portfolio Review, we're asking each of the five judges to tell us about their first portfolios. We've already heard from Debbie Milllman, Natasha Jen, Jessica Walsh, and Mirko Ilić. Last up: Scott Stowell, who runs the acclaimed New York design studio Open. When did you create your [...]
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My First Portfolio: Natasha Jen
by Print staff October 10, 2012Print's new Portfolio Review is a great opportunity for designers to show off their stuff and personally connect with some of the top design firms in the country. All entrants will have their work featured in an online gallery, and six winners will be flown to San Francisco to attend the 2013 HOW Design Live [...]
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