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Design Work Life points out Kate McCagg’s clever series of blog posts that pair fashionable dresses with fashionable posters. I don’t wear dresses much anymore, but this is hard not to love.
(Thanks to Christine for the tip.)
West Elm’s near-monthly circular, Design With Style 10/March: Print Shop makes some bold claims, that the Brooklyn-based Modern home furnishing company doesn’t quite back-up.
Like West Elm I agree that prints do have power, even as the warm and whimsical varieties, but they are going to have to do better than some printed towels to add pop or perk to this nest. Don’t get me wrong, who doesn’t like printed textiles? But it’s not like West Elm is exactly the Fabric Workshop when it comes to innovative textile design.
Strangely, the only non-textile print to be found is the enigmatic ‘Naive botanical sketch’ that is ’screen printed in charcoal on glass’. Say What? Oh well, I guess I won’t be adding style to my nest with leafs from their book.
A recent trip to the local japanese street food-style restaurant yielded this find: Auto Land Printed Bisuits by the Meiji snack company. How could anyone resist that world-weary car face? You may be familiar with Meiji from their popular chocolate mushroom treats or equally print-tasty Hello Panda cookies, which are filled with a chocolate-like substance and printed with pandas in action.
This photo of winter sports oriented Hello Panda treats is via Pop Kiss Kiss.
Back to the Auto Land cooky taste test, while they have some really great transportation images printed on them (see the full cookie gallery after the jump), they are more akin to a square ritz cracker than any biscuit you are likely to find at any Bob Evans. For now I can only highly recommend the Hello Panda line of printed snacks even though their graphics have a less obvious relationship between form and content. After some research, it seems Meiji’s only real competition in the printed snack food market is the Belgium Biscuit Line company. They seem to be aiming more at the corporate schwag market than the large demographic of folks hankering for some printed snacks.
Long-time readers will remember that Printeresting was originally launched as “the thinking person’s favorite online resource for Jeff Bridges-related printmaking miscellany.” Well, despite our best efforts, that just wasn’t a sustainable business model. But with an Academy Award in hand and a long-awaited Tron sequel in the works, Bridges is back in the news! So it’s time for a Jeff Bridges Print Update! Oscars, Schmoscars! You have not “made it” until you have your own Shepard Fairey Parody Poster:
And a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is nothing compared to Another Shepard Fairey Parody Poster:
But then, there’s no shortage of Big Lebowski print merchandise. Why would there be, when it all sells out?
Tyler Stout Screenprint, SOLD OUT!
The merchandise may sell out, but Jeff Bridges never will. Even when Jeff Bridges designed these T-Shirts for Quiksilver, a portion of the proceeds went to charity. Way to go, Dude!
I strongly encourage any Museum Curators to acquire this “Museum Quality Fine Art Print”:
Surprisingly, that’s all the Jeff Bridges Print News I could find. The marketing team for Crazy Heart could have used a country-style Hatch Show Print-inspired design, but they didn’t. And as far as I can tell, nobody’s producing limited edition lithographs of his insane drawings. Surely there will be more news in the next… Jeff Bridges Print Update!* *NOTE: There will not be a next Jeff Bridges Print Update.
From Creative Review, Ryan McGinness has created a tongue-in-cheek artist’s book entitled Studio Manual to accompany his new exhibit Studio Franchise in Madrid. The book details facets of his art production process, including “everything from a brand study and visual identity to corporate policies and detailed instructions on how to make Ryan McGinness art.”
Prints are in fashion! John Welles Bartlett designed these window displays for Bergdorf Goodman in NYC:
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #33 is a full blown regional newspaper. McSweeney’s literary journal has always had a keen sense of design and often publishes some very lovely printed objects that straddle the line between art project and literary glee fest. Issue #33, alternately titled the San Francisco Panarama is great example of what a city newspaper could be. In their own words:
But don’t take their word for it, read the San Francisco Chronicle article here, or continue reading this picture laden post. One of the most striking things about the paper is that it is an un-ironic project intended to inspire and model how to save newspapers.
The Printed Reality is a Flickr photo pool that collects photos of print intruding into public space.
Paul Laidler runs the group, and organized a projected display of the photos at last year’s IMPACT conference. Laidler also writes about print art at Just Press P. He describes the collection this way:
More photos from the group:
From Flickr user a n j a
Why wouldn’t a printmaker enjoy a good ol’ pressed penny? You turn a big crank to make ‘em, and there’s even a little copper involved. It’s the most satisfying fifty-one cents a person can spend at an Interstate rest stop. A brief history of the genre at National Geographic presents a few historical oddities:
Ronald Dupont has posted his collection online for the world to see:
PennyCollector.com claims to be “the official website for pressed pennies, penny books, and penny machines.” If you plan to start a collection, be sure to check out the helpful tips, including this note about Canadian coins:
The online Squished Penny Museum can fill you in on the basics of EC collecting, and has a few special features including a timeline of Gerald Ford pressed pennies.
In an impressive feat of upcycling, printed detritus is stacked, glued, and shaped into log-like forms by Andrew Sutherland:
These photos are from the artist’s own inscrutable website, and this blog entry from HUH.MAGAZINE. |
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