Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
For the organizers of Afrophon’, a recent art book fair in LUMA Arles, France centering contemporary independent publishing from the African continent, there’s a significant lack of knowledge, acknowledgement, and access to African art books in the West. In 2018, the project’s guest curator Gee Wesley, came together with friends who run Ulises — an artspace in Philadelphia — to...
In 1966, Scott Paper Co., an American company that made a range of paper products, released an advertisement for their new ‘Color Explosion’ range of toilet paper and paper towels. In it, two smiling young girls were pictured in knee-grazing shift dresses, hands tucked into pockets. The two dresses in the photograph — one flooded with a monochromatic Op-Art pattern,...
Like Go-Gurt before it, the playful ethos of olive oil brand Graza, which launched earlier this year, is defined by its equally carefree form factor. While Go-Gurt’s squeezable plastic sleeve made yogurt more appealing to children, Graza’s squeezeable bottle makes inherently appealing high-quality olive oil less precious to everyone. Or, in as Gander partner Katie Levy, put it, with its...
Café Royal Books is a one-man print archive of culture, community, and social change based in Southport, UK. This impressive image-based publisher shares the best of documentary photography in weekly releases that cater to those interested in subcultures, British and Irish post-war history and more. We asked founder Craig Atkinson to share his story and recommend some of his favorite...
You probably don’t need me to tell you that the publishing world is a tough business. While the internet — and social networks — have put the tools of publishing into the hands of anyone with a smartphone, they’ve also made questions of gaming algorithms, virality, and likes and shares integral to building an audience. This is, perhaps, especially true...
Name: Good Girl Designer: Marion Bisserier Foundry: Type Department Release Date: July 2022 Back Story: We don’t often run ‘sequels’ of Type Tuesday, but we had to make an exception for Good Girl by designer Marion Bisserier thanks to its significant updates, and also the fact that we love it so much. We first covered Good Girl back in 2019,...
Designers aren’t created in a vacuum. They’re shaped by their environments and the people around them, and it’s through mentorship and collaboration that they grow within their creative communities. For Louise Sandhaus, her role as a design educator and mentor reaches back nearly twenty-five years. She’s inspired countless young designers through her courses at CalArts, while also serving as co-director...
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published on January 2, 2020. There’s a common refrain on Twitter that can be heard echoing across the feed any time there’s a big news day or fresh political horror. It varies slightly in wording and context, but...
When you work at a print publication, it’s easy to get fatigued by years of conversations about the death of print — from industry observers, “futurists,” nervous colleagues, your friends and family. But nearly 30 years after David Carson’s The End of Print, a glance at the internet today would reveal an intriguing reality: magazine covers are wholly ubiquitous. And...
It was only 50 cents. But it was 50 cents that perhaps changed the look of pop culture as we know it today. Emily Oberman was born in Yonkers, NY in 1962 to a designer father and an artist mother. Marvin and Arline Simon Oberman mandated their daughter take tap-dancing lessons, ballet lessons, jazz lessons… and drawing lessons. To the...
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock has been at the cutting edge of technology for many of his 82 years. Like his contemporary Stevie Wonder, he developed a taste for synthesizers and electronics long before they were widespread, and he has fearlessly explored new genres like hip hop, funk, and electronica since leaving the Miles Davis Quintet in 1968 to go solo. Born...
From the family-knit cardigans of infancy, to the House of Sunny ‘fits of today’s Tik Tokers du’jour, society’s enduring love of knitwear transcends generations. But while the ways we choose to style our knits are ever-evolving, the design of knitted garments themselves hasn’t changed nearly as much as one might think. Take “ugly sweaters” from the 1970s, photographs from the...
