“There’s Something Very Important I Forgot To Tell You” was a 2009 exhibit in Milan by Berlin-based artist Riccardo Previdi. The title of the show is a line from Ghostbusters; this piece is called Test. Printer calibration patterns culled from the Internet were printed on paper, which was crumpled and photographed. The photos were then [...]]]>

“There’s Something Very Important I Forgot To Tell You” was a 2009 exhibit in Milan by Berlin-based artist Riccardo Previdi. The title of the show is a line from Ghostbusters; this piece is called Test. Printer calibration patterns culled from the Internet were printed on paper, which was crumpled and photographed. The photos were then reproduced on a plank of plywood.

Previdi’s work references print and pop culture in a cheeky exploration of mediated imagery, reproduction, and representation. The following images are taken from a 2008 show called  C_YK – Black To The Future:

From the press release:

C_YK – Black To The Future connects an associative web around the culture- and design-history of print technology…Architectural interventions like the magenta coloured transparent foil on the gallery´s showcase changes the original perception of the gallery as a display for art. Looking through the foil, the magenta coloured surface merges with its surroundings as if the foil did not exist. The inner space of the gallery is divided by an additional yellow foil that changes the view of the wall beyond where “convolutions” of paper are installed. Only the mobility of the viewer allows the “real” consistence of the single elements that at the same time changes the view on the “Gestalt” of the others to be seen. The neon writing “C YK” is visible also from outside the gallery. The coloured and shiny letters C YK become a point of attraction, a cryptic code which simultaneously influences its surroundings…

All the single elements of the exhibition “C YK – Black To The Future” are autonomous objects, but seen as one whole, as an architectural intervention, they start to play with the idea of a constructivist stage of perception: C- M-Y- K.

Other projects of interest include Fraktur, an installation that references Gutenberg’s 1455 Bible, and The Last Desire, a series of public billboards.

We’ll be hanging out and making copies at Art in the Age from 6-9. [...]]]> Just two short weeks til Copy Jam! For the event, we are producing a small-run, commemorative t-shirt that will be available for purchase. The shirts were beautifully printed by Philadelphia’s own Outlaw Print Co. Get ‘em while supplies last.

We’ll be hanging out and making copies at Art in the Age from 6-9. It’s free and all are welcome! AITA is generously supplying bottles of their Root liqueur for all to sample at our event and will be hosting a Root Happy Hour next door at Charlie’s Pub from 8-10. Anyone up for an after party? It’s going to be fun so definitely stop by.

Don’t be the last person on your block to learn about the latest HOTT Printmaking Craze. Visit the PRINTERESTING NOTEBOOK daily!

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 [...]]]>

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.

Obsoletism, a screen print on canvas by Scott Campbell. This one’s for all those who fetishize antiquated technologies.

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 [...]]]>

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.

Fun names to learn!

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 [...]]]> 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!

Mediocre “Team Dude” Bowling Shirt, 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 [...]]]>

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.”

The exhibit is a recreation of McGinness’ studio environment executed according to a set of “franchise” guidelines.

As the primary drive of Ryan’s art practice concerns itself with the creation of and (re)production of original symbols, this new Madrid studio and the assistants will serve as symbols of the artist’s New York studio and as symbols of the artist himself. Furthermore, the studio and the assistants are not reproductions of the original, rather, they are productions based on the original. This is the essence of the franchise concept—not the deployment of reproductions or duplicates, but the production of originals created within a set of acceptable pre-determined guidelines—symbols with no referent, but that exist in their own right.

(Images from the artist’s website.)

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 [...]]]>

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:

Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterlyis a one-time only, Sunday-edition-sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It has news and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides) and a magazine, and is basically an attempt to demonstrate all the great things print journalism can (still) do, with as much first-rate writing and reportage and design (and posters and games and on-location Antarctic travelogues) as we could fit in there. It features journalism from Andrew Sean Greer, fiction from George Saunders and Roddy Doyle, dispatches from Afghanistan, and much, much more.

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.

Front page.

I haven’t seen graphics this good since I read an issue of Good Magazine while standing in line at Whole Foods.

A Sunday NY Times Style Magazine and a full on Book Review magazine.

Don’t get me started about the Comics section. It’s full of great work and is full color and huge. Below is Dan Clowes’ surreal family space drama, The Christian Astronauts.

Art Spiegelman’s Remember Childhood.

Chris Ware, above.

A weekly-style strip by Seth, above.

The surprisingly funny children’s activity page, above.

Chef Ryan Farr demonstrates how to butcher a sheep.

Chef David Chang explains ramen with a multi-step graphics.

SF restaurant guide that looks like an Ed Ruscha book.

Sports.

Double arts spread.

Puzzles too sophisticated for this printmaker.

An amazing chart tracking the SF music scene.

Other useful graphics.

Without a doubt it’s the best $16 dollars I’ve spent since I bought my wool socks.