Binding Craft, Art & Design

It’s a hard thing when one compares the work of others but it’s an even harder thing when you compare the work of one epoch to another without bringing in some type of biased stand. Luckily I enjoy both periods of work and hopefully it will be an enjoyable comparison not only for me but […]

This time around instead of leaning towards all the typographic advances after the coming of the digital age, I decided to really focus on a designer and researching his work for my own personal study. It was pretty hard finding a designer from the plethora of amazing designers in the last two chapters of Meggs’ […]

I’ll be honest and say that this I had no motivation or desire to plow through Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. I don’t know if it was either because thanksgiving was around the corner or because I spent the past week traveling to Missouri and back. Regardless of what ensued, I just couldn’t get myself […]

This week I had a hard time deciding who or what I liked but I was eventually able to narrow it down to just two iconic graphic designers; Herb Lubalin and Paul Rand. After that things got complicated, not with who I liked best but what aspects of their work I enjoyed and also what […]

“Bernhard formula: flat background color; large, simple image; and product name.1” This time around, I couldn’t help but take up a fascination with Lucian Bernhard and all that he’s done in the field of poster design as a self-taught artist. Spearheading the Plakatstil movement, he was able to reduce communication to merely a word and […]

To me the era in which the Ver Sacrum publication was created was a very interesting one. Among other things as well was the fact that this publication was not a means to break out of the social norm but the fact that it vigorously incorporated the artist and graphic artists into every inch of […]

The Arts and Crafts Movement is something that I can relate to on a deep and personal level. Even now with all the trends going back and forth, the one breaking barriers past all the white noise of endless feeds is the return to Handicraft oriented design. The DIY and Handcrafted movement may seem like a […]

What is the one thing that is essential to letterpress printing? You probably already know and as of recently one of my new favorite subjects to research: movable type. When it comes to movable type any connotation of it is at times automatically associated with letterpress printing; which is known for its tactile and nostalgic […]

I have never had my curiosity struck and left in awe until the moment I realized that I took writing and the creation of the alphabet for granted. It’s something that we not only grow up with but it’s also a means of communication that sticks with us until our last breath. In a sense, […]