Occasional Papers just released the first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1984–2011), which comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history. The book documents the development of the relatively young field of graphic design history from 1983 to today, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, political and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning.
The Good Children 2011 Catalog is on sale at their gallery located at 4037 St. Claude Ave, New Orleans.
Design by Constance. Video by Akasha Rabut. Song: Polaroid/Roman/Photo by Ruth
In this age of emails, texts, and instant messages, receiving a letter has become a rare treat. Once an integral part of social life, the use of engraved stationery has become a lost art.
In The Complete Engraver, New Orleans author Nancy Sharon Collins [ blog ] brings this venerable craft to life-from the history and etiquette of engraved social stationery in America to its revival and promise of new visual possibilities.
Preorder on Amazon and also receive 2 complete engraver-inspired typeface sets.
Todd Taylor of Hollarrr recently released a collection of images, entitled thanks and goodnight. You can find a copy at Humidity Skateshop, located in the French Quarter at 515 Dumaine Street.
The former creatives behind NUDE PAPER have started the new Hamburg-based TISSUE, a biannual magazine filled with artist contributions of amalgamations of everything ‘sexy’. Basically it’s a magazine full of oversexed newcomers and the shaky old hands of erotic photography taking sex to the unsexiest of places.