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A Designer’s Midcentury-Mod Music-Graphics Mashups
Graham Moore creates fine-art pieces that put you in a dancing mood, just by looking into them. In fact, many of them began as vintage LP record album covers, several decades pre-mp3. Then, under his...
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How Sean Adams Transforms His Childhood Insecurities into Brilliant Graphic...
If you've seen Sean Adams at design functions, you'll recall a bright and friendly guy who makes grinning 1960s-era stewardesses seem positively dour by comparison. In fact, in a behind-the-scenes...
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The Comics of Eliza Frye: A Gateway to the Sequential Arts
A lady is murdered. She was a Parisian prostitute. We meet some people who knew her. A bloody butcher. A flower merchant. A client. A painter for whom she modeled. A few others. We attend her burial....
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Eliza Frye: How to Succeed in Comics, Online and Off
When Eliza Frye used Kickstarter to fund her first hardcover collection of graphic stories, she raised more than double her goal amount. In this, the conclusion of our two-part talk, she discusses a...
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Gilded-Age Dogs Atop Penny-Farthings: A Tour of Philadelphia University’s...
Imprint'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...
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From Classroom Doodler to Funny-Picture Publisher: Craig Yoe's Cartoon Evolution
I figured that this time, my encounter with Craig Yoe wouldn't involve sex. But no, he just had to go slip in his Penis at the end. Yoe is a cartoonist, an author, a designer, and a historian, and the...
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Songbird Janet Klein's Hotsy-Totsy Music Designs
By day, Janet Klein is a printing industry representative and sidekick to world-class designers and art institutions. By night—and on weekends—she's a uke-playing chanteuse. And here in Los Angeles...
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Andy Warhol's Attraction to Herbert Bayer's Lips
When Alexey Brodovitch was art directing Harper's Bazaar, he ran a striking cover by Herbert Bayer for its 1940 "College Fashions" issue. A three-quarter view photo of a woman's face is duplicated in...
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Eric Gill, Australian Mad Men, and the Ultimate Books on Typography and Printing
Paul Soady doesn't care that Eric Gill had sex with his sister, his daughters, and his family dog. He's simply in love with the art and typography of this controversial artist, writer, and designer of...
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Using the Design Process to Resolve Project Conflicts
“You decided to change directions…?” (cue the internal tears) Ahhh…that feeling inside that whispers, “I’ve just wasted a week on a design and now the strategy has done a u-turn spraying me with its...
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