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Posted by A FRIEND OF PRINTERESTING on March 14th, 2010 | 
Guest-post by Jena Osman, A Friend of Printeresting
The Medium Resistance show now at the Ice Box in Philadelphia is subtitled “Revolutionary Tendencies in Print and Craft.” From Carl Pope’s wall of “Bad Air” to Leslie Mutchler’s “Manufactured Utopias,” the show is pretty breathtaking. One of its pleasures is a distinctly psychogeographical strain running through it.
To read an in depth review of this exhibition following Jena Osman’s line of investigation proceed after the jump.
Continue reading Philagrafika 2010: Psychogeography at Medium Resistance
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Posted by amze on March 9th, 2010 | 
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.
Continue reading Printed Biscuits!
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Posted by RL Tillman on February 19th, 2010 | Show your print-pride with carefully selected clothing and accessories:
   
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Posted by A FRIEND OF PRINTERESTING on January 31st, 2010 |
Guest Post by Natalie Campbell.
 In Numbers, at X Initiative, is a landmark show of artist’s serial publications closed January 30th. Organized by Phil Aarons and Andrew Roth, “In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists” gives generous space to each series, and features historically influential work like Wallace Berman’s Semina and Eleanor Antin’s 100 Boots alongside lesser-known gems such as Nobuyoshi Araki’s faintly photocopied Zerokkusu Shashincho, the groovy Balloon Newspaperpublished in late 60s-early 70s Santa Cruz, and Diagonal Cero, a magazine of visual/experimental poetry published by Argentinian poet Edgardo Antonio Vigo.
For those who didn’t make it to the show, the catalog looks like an invaluable resource.
Posted by RL Tillman on January 13th, 2010 | Print Lives is the theme of the 70th-anniversary issue of graphic design magazine Print. Maybe it’s my warped mind, or maybe it’s the recent death of Art Clokey, but both of these cover photos remind me of Gumby:
Details here. (via NOTCOT)
Posted by RL Tillman on January 12th, 2010 | 
Philagrafika 2010, the massive Philadelphia-based festival of print, opens January 29. The organizers have a broad vision, and the event has the potential to be a game-changer. Printeresting will be on the scene.
If you just can’t wait for the end of the month, José Roca has promised daily updates at the Philagrafika Blog.
 Swoon installation
Artists are already rolling into town to prepare:
Some have already started their works: Paul Morrison’s assistant, Bianka Craanen, already finished the spectacular mural that is going to grace Moore’s façade on Race street; Kiki smith oversaw the installation of her delicate collaged lithographies at PAFA; Miler Lagos is starting to pile thousands of newspapers in stacks for his carved “throne” at the Arthur Ross gallery; Francesc Ruiz and Pablo Helguera are printing newspapers, magazines and a book; Duke Riley has been canoeing (!!!), and our own Space 1026 members have been busy putting together the structure for the oversize Yurt that will become a reading room-cum-lounge space at the Print Center.
…It would not be a citywide arts-festival without a giant Yurt!
Posted by RL Tillman on January 9th, 2010 | 
Jim Linderman has an amusing new theory about Andy Warhol. He speculates that the artist’s signature imagery may be rooted in a children’s activity book published by the Heinz company. The evidence is circumstantial, but not unpersuasive:
I found a small booklet in an antique mall which was originally published by the Heinz company in Andy Warhol’s home town the year before he was born. The book encouraged young children to TRACE THE IMAGES contained for “fun” when the intent was clearly to imprint impressionable young minds with the Heinz logo and brand. Tracing paper was bound into the pamphlet on top of each Heinz product. The book has a date of 1927 and was published in Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh was also Andy’s home town and he was born one year later in 1928.
Regardless of its basis in fact, this is a delightful story. And it’s hard to deny the resemblance! Here’s Linderman’s tracing from the Heinz coloring book, and a 1962 Warhol drawing that sold for over a million dollars last November:
A report at Accidental Mysteries notes that Matt Wrbican, an archivist at the Andy Warhol Museum, is looking into the matter:
That’s an interesting theory. To my knowledge, neither of Warhol’s brothers has ever mentioned such a book being in the family’s possession… I’ve written to a Warhola family member to see if they have a recollection of this having been in the family’s possession, and will let you know if he has a positive response.
(Thanks, Delia!)
Posted by amze on January 5th, 2010 | 
If you haven’t seen this, stop what you are doing and enjoy a brief ride through the tunnel of labor of love. To learn more about John Carrera visit Quercus Press here. And if you want more and still some Amazon gift card currency left you can get your own lovely (trade edition) volume here.
Thanks for the tip, Luther!
Posted by A FRIEND OF PRINTERESTING on January 1st, 2010 | Guest Post by Mary Tasillo
Someone involved in the creation of the new film “Sherlock Holmes” has a thing for type. If you’ve seen only the preview, you’ll have noticed the use of lead type blocks to spell or stamp out the movie’s title. (The letters come at you one by one, mimicking a typewriter’s action rather than that of the press.) When the film opens, the text “SHERLOCK HOLMES” has an impression to it. And throughout the movie, glyphs, handwriting, and period newspaper add texture to the set. See Sherlock Holmes leafing through a letterpress printed newspaper, replete with wood type. See Holmes and Watson pass a wall papered in broadside notices. For extra credit, figure out whether the design is historically accurate….
Posted by amze on November 25th, 2009 |  This laser cut turkey was manufactured by FedTech, a metal fabricator located in St. Paul, Minnesota, who specializes in custom water and laser cut steel. Why did they laser cut a turkey? Quite simply, for art:
This laser cut project was a complex but fun project to follow. The parts that were cut were processed from 11 gage HRPO carbon steel. The finished parts (roughly 9″ high and 5″ wide) will be shipped to a business in St. Paul, MN for a future exhibit at a museum of art.
As you give thanks with your loved ones this year, take a moment to reflect on what a laser, in the right hands, can do to 11 gage carbon steel.
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