Artist Patti Smith, author of Just Kids, in conversation with Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City, earlier this year:
(via MobyLives)
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Published November 30, 2010
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Published November 29, 2010
Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop
The Creative Review visits the South London studio of independent letterpress printer Kelvyn Smith:
Smith’s work is being shown as part of the Reverting To Type exhibition at the Standpoint Gallery in London, opening December 10th (mentioned previously here).
(via Coudal / Acejet 170)
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Published November 29, 2010
Reverting to Type
Curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, Reverting to Type at the Standpoint Gallery in London will showcase the work of twenty contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world:
Reverting To Type runs from December 10th–24th and continues January 4th–22nd, 2011. The Creative Review has more on the exhibition here.
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Published November 18, 2010
Linotype: The Film
Linotype: The Film is a work-in-progress documentary about the revolutionary Linotype typecasting machine. Director Doug Wilson has just released a new trailer for the film:
You can help fund the Linotype: The Film at Kickstarter.
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Published November 17, 2010
The Story of Eames Furniture
Marilyn Neuhart, author of The Story of Eames Furniture, and her husband John both worked in close proximity to Charles and Ray Eames and key members of the Eames Office for almost 30 years. In this fascinating video interview with GestaltenTV, the couple talk about the people behind the iconic Eames designs:
The Story of Eames Furniture is published by Gestalten.
Published November 16, 2010
Michael Bierut on Typography
In this 2008 interview with The Atlantic, Michael Bierut, author of 79 Short Essays on Design*, talks about typography, Stanley Kubrick’s favorite font and the cover design of The Catcher in the Rye:
(via Design Observer)
*79 Short Essays on Design is distributed in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books.
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Published November 11, 2010
Changing Education Paradigms
Published November 9, 2010
Under the Influence
In Influencers, a short documentary Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, New York creatives discuss pop culture trends and what makes a person creatively influential:
(via Kitsune Noir and others)
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Published November 5, 2010
Field Notes: Wings
A short documentary by Coudal Partners about the production of the new limited edition Field Notes notebook Raven’s Wing:
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Published November 4, 2010
Incidental Media
I’m not exactly sure how the ideas in these videos by Dentsu London and BERG relate to books and print, but I’m pretty sure they do in some tangential way.
There’s a lovely sense of how new media can connect and adapt old media in interesting, unobtrusive ways, and it seems much more human-shaped than the rather linear idea that a new technologies must replace or destroy existing ones:
(via Russell Davies)
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Published October 27, 2010
Type Case
Martin Bircher’s oddly hypnotic art installation Type Case uses a printers’ type case and 125 LED lights to display the latest headlines:
There’s more about the project here.
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