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Posted by amze on June 30th, 2009 | More specifically, an end to printing the Southern Graphics Council’s near-quarterly newsletter Graphic Impressions. From this point forward Graphic Impressions, now under the able editorship of Erika Adams, will be available only as an electronic document in pdf format.
Does this mean printmakers will have to purchase Kindles to keep up?
In his Letter from the President, Joe Lupo, makes a case for the change from print to virtual.
This newsletter marks another change in the course of the future of the SGC. This year, with the help of our new editor Erika Adams, we will publish our last “real”newsletter. Instead of printing three newsletters on paper a year, we will offer three PDF format newsletters. There are obvious benefits here. First is money, we will be saving a serious amount of money by eliminating postage and printing costs. The second benefit is availability. It is our hope to create an SGC Newsletter Archive attached to the newly designed website coming soon.
He goes on to unveil plans for an annual SGC journal.
The last reason we are making this change is so we can begin the process of editing the first issue of the SGC Journal. It has been a goal of the Executive Board to change the newsletter into a journal for some time. … Our hope is to create an annual journal that would be curated from a variety of papers submitted throughout the year. We want this journal to hold up to academic standards and be a major benefit for SGC Members.
The idea of a new print journal is a compelling one. I vote that this new publication doesn’t merely attempt to be a more print-centric Art Journal, but goes further to consider the ways an annual publication might model interesting print as well as write about it. Publications like Parkett, The Thing Quarterly and Esopus Magazine are good examples of how one doesn’t need to just write about critical theory –they can create it in print. And who better to do that than SGC International?
BTW, the newsletter contains the usual bits, including strong and interesting essays by print world notables David Jones, Phyllis McGibbon and Beauvais Lyons. Anyone interested in submitting articles about “artists, shows, books, blogs, websites and your own ideas relating to print media” to the new digital version of Graphic Impressions are invited to contact Erika Adams via the SGC website.
Posted by Jason Urban on June 30th, 2009 | 
From the Johnson County Library (Overland Park, KS) website…
With the help of Barkley Advertizing Agency, the Johnson County Library’s courier trucks have been redeisgned to resemble the delivery trucks of some of literature’s most famous characters. Barkely’s generous pro bono designs remind us of the iconic nature of these books. These books will always be relevant. Just like these classic books, Libraries are icons of American society–today and tomorrow.
(Thanks, JWJ. You’re the #1 Bibliophile)
Posted by RL Tillman on June 29th, 2009 | The Laser Cutter Blog is apparently some kind of online resource for interesting laser-cutting miscellany. Like this excellent laser-cut bookwork by Olafur Elliasson:
This link was suggested by a certain BFF of mine.
Posted by A FRIEND OF PRINTERESTING on June 25th, 2009 | This post authored by Leslie Mutchler.
Recently I was asked to be a Visiting Artist at Kent State University’s Summer Blossom Program in Printmaking. While there I was able to do a number of studio visits with printmakers working in a variety of media. One artist in particular stood out to me- a current graduate student in the Printmaking Department at KSU, Emily Sullivan.
Sullivan’s work exists somewhere between the real and the simulated; occupying spaces both large and small. Sullivan’s prints are not only bright, intense color studies- serigraphs of tidy lines, grid patterns, and geometric shapes- but are further processed- paper is cut and reassembled, scored and folded, manipulated into objects, landscapes and environments and then photographed and digitally printed.
Continue reading Studio Visit: Emily Sullivan
Posted by RL Tillman on June 25th, 2009 | Unbelievable.
 Michael Jackson
Andy Warhol for TIME magazine, Oil on silkscreen on canvas, 1984
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Posted by amze on June 25th, 2009 | 
Having just returned from China, this will be the first of several posts on the some of the printeresting things seen while traveling. I should say that I didn’t attend the Sanbao International Printmaking Symposium and tour in Jingdezhen organized in part by Minna Resnick and Jackson Li, so I won’t be making any reports on the wonders that group may have seen (if anyone on that trip would like to post here please email me).
The observations and photographs in this post are meant to convey a few observations of how printed matter fits into everyday life in China.
Branded fruits! I’m sure this coming to a super market near you soon.
I should add at this point in my education I can only read the most basic Chinese characters and have no idea what’s written on these fruits (any translations from our readers are most welcome).
The media buzz about China often starts with some statement about how the country is building a 21st century infastructure, well you can add their print infastructure to the list of great leaps forward fueled by the ascendent Chinese economy. Walking the streets of Beijing and Shanghai one can’t help but think that there isn’t a problem that can’t be solved with a large vinyl banner, billboard or sticker. Like many technological leap-frogs the local sign industry seems to have moved past screen printing or any US-style nostalgia for hand-painted signs.
Continue reading Dispatches from China: View from the Street
Posted by Jason Urban on June 23rd, 2009 | Summer is for big-budget blockbusters… or so we’re regularly told. Here’s a more low key approach to Hollywood.
Film The Blanks is “an ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters.” John Taylor takes pre-existing film posters and filters them through a minimalist design lens, reducing them to the bare essentials. Taylor, intentionally or not, makes a strong case for the importance of graphic design and print media in establishing a film’s identity in the minds of viewers. While it’s fun to figure out what movies go with what poster (it’s actually a game on the website), most fare successful as enigmatic abstractions. Here are some of the more recognizable ones…
 A selection of Taylor’s minimized posters are available for purchase as digital prints.
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Posted by RL Tillman on June 22nd, 2009 | 
At Wired: the cover of Opium Magazine is a printed art project by Jonathan Keats, “a story that takes 1,000 years to read.”
San Francisco conceptual artist and journalist Jonathon Keats is trying to rejuvenate literature in the age of hyperspeed media by writing a story that will take a millennium to tell. The catch? The story, printed on the cover of the recently released Infinity issue of Opium Magazine, is only nine words long…
“Something essential is lost when ingesting words is all about speed. My thousand-year story is an antidote. Given the printing process I’ve used, you can’t take in more than one word per century. That’s even slower than reading Proust.”
The printing process in question is a simple but, as usual with Keats, pretty clever idea. The cover is printed in a double layer of standard black ink, with an incrementally screened overlay masking the nine words. Exposed over time to ultraviolet light, the words will be appear at different rates, supposedly one per century.
It’s also worth reading the article’s comments section, for its mixture of insight and ignorance. (via)
Posted by RL Tillman on June 22nd, 2009 | DIY-ers! Behold the well-named, kookily disorganized Screenulacra:
Project Screenulacra explores and develops different possibilities in Silkscreening. We embrace the Do It Yourself approach. Working on visual and technical transformation of already existing elements and combining the individuality of secondhand clothes with the character of silkscreen printing. The Project shares knowledge through workshops and connections with other groups.
Be sure to check out the interactive “How To Make” section (although it seems to be a work-in-progress).
“Screenulacra!” Names just don’t get any better than that.
Posted by amze on June 22nd, 2009 | 
“Wake up, Andy Warhol!” was the name of a exhibition of designers riffing on the tropes of … well.. Andy Warhol. The exhibition took place at SSamziegil, a popular bohemian shopping area in Isadong, Seoul, South Korea. The LA-based design collective Poketo! created the bags above as a facsimile of a facsimile work from the exhibit. The bags were made in limited edition and can be found at their site here. As Rueben Miller questions on his art/design blog, “When ‘real’ is mimicked so much that ‘fake’ is as common as ‘real’, then what would you rather have – ‘real’ or ‘fake’? Think about it.” The work certainly does raise some funny questions about authenticity and the multiple. You can see pictures from the exhibition here.
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