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Connecting Dots: A Creative Postcard Challenge 📬️ When was the last time you sent a postcard? When was the last time you carried up a stack of mail and found a small card, glossy photo on one side, handwritten note on the other, tucked in among the circulars and bills? Wish you were here! There is something unique about a postcard. It is small and compact. It may be thin, bordering on flimsy, and yet with a corner stamp in place, it is designed to make it through the system. How many words can you fit in the split panel on the back? Do you need words? What happens to the narrative if you send drawings? Portraits? A selfie? A sketch of your morning coffee, your pet, or from your favorite cafe? What happens if you swatch your palette (ink or paint or colored pencils) each month on a postcard and mail it to someone? What if you record thumbnails of morning light every day for a week? What happens if you write how you really feel in that blank space and send it off? If I look out my window and draw the shape of the tree and write the colors of the sky and, later, drop it in the mail, how will you reply? If I do it once a month for a year, what will I capture? What record will the postcards hold? What will it mean to the recipient? In a series of monthly prompts, we will create a set of postcards, each one responding to a simple nudge. You can use existing postcards, focusing on filling the blank side. This is the easiest approach. Or, you can use blank cards, your responses filling both sides. Read the full story on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/e4gGg-nz Words: Amy Cowen Imagery: courtesy of the author ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #art #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #postcardprompts #wishyouwerehere #PostcardChallenge #CreativeCorrespondence #youvegotmail #postcards

Natural Habitat Adventures Has Sustainable Travel ‘Covered’ ♻️ As the world’s first 100% carbon-neutral travel company, Natural Habitat Adventures (“Nat Hab”) takes its mission of conservation through exploration seriously. Nat Hab facilitates intimate encounters with the Earth’s wildest places – and aims to be the most meaningful travel company on the planet while doing so. Based in Boulder, Colorado (after being founded in New Jersey in 1985), Nat Hab creates life-enhancing nature and wildlife experiences for small groups of passionate explorers. The company’s innovative approach to travel, personal attention to detail, and industry-leading sustainability practices have made it the official travel partner of the World Wildlife Fund and one of Travel + Leisure Co.’s Best Global Tour Operators. Nat Hab’s conservation ethos is as wide as it is deep, comprising carbon-neutral travel, waste reduction, local community support, and traveler inspiration—all aimed at delivering premium adventures while influencing the entire travel industry. For Nat Hab, the sustainable adventure begins well before travelers embark on a journey. The company’s sustainable supply chain commitments include the choice of paper supplier for its annual catalog, which encompasses 192 pages of globe-spanning adventures from the Galapagos Islands to African safaris to Antarctica and the Arctic Circle. Nat Hab’s 2024/2025 catalog, World’s Greatest Nature Journeys, will be distributed to a record 170,000 recipients, a list carefully curated to promote the company’s travel offerings and provide inspiration for other companies to follow in its forward-thinking footsteps. Read the full story on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/eH4jxU_B Words: PRINT Editorial Team Imagery: Natural Habitat Adventures, Monadnock Paper Mills ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #visit #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #NatHab #naturalhabitatadventures #sustainability #carbonneutral #paperproducts #travelpartners #global

Cheryl Miller’s Life of Advocacy at the Next PRINT Book Club 📚️ Join Us Thursday, October 17, at 4 p.m. ET! October is a special month because we are bringing you two book events. The first of these is happening on October 17, as the PRINT Book Club welcomes Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller. Debbie Millman and Steven Heller will lead a discussion about her new book, Here: Where The Black Designers Are. HERE is part memoir, part investigation, and part urgent call for justice and recognition for Black designers, making it an invaluable resource for graphic design professionals, teachers, and students. Written by designer, writer, activist, and educator Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller, the book is a portrait of her life in advocacy and her journey to answer the question “Where are the Black designers?” Register for the PRINT Book Club: https://lnkd.in/eGkNNZu2 Words: PRINT Editorial Team Imagery: Cheryl D. Holmes Miller, DHL ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #PRINTBookClub #bookclub #reading #publishing #bookdesign #author #advocacy #wherearetheblackdesigners

Transforming Traditional Handcraft into Economic Growth in Thailand 🇹🇭 If you, like me, watch travel, house-hunting, and cooking shows, you know that Chiang Mai, Thailand, is touted as the latest laid-back, inexpensive place to enjoy great scenery, food, and hospitality. Thailand’s second-largest city, located in the cooler, mountainous north of the country, offers plenty to see and do. You can tour awe-inspiring Buddhist temples by day and peruse the famous night markets for dinner, entertainment, and handicrafts. An hour or two from the historic center, you can trek deeper into Chiang Mai province and visit elephant sanctuaries and indigenous villages. On a recent three-week visit with my family, I noticed something else: Chiang Mai University has substantial buildings housing a College of Digital Innovation and a College of Art, Media and Technology. A visit to the TCDC, the Thailand Creative & Design Center, demonstrated that the government fully and publicly supports design as a catalyst for social and economic growth. Read the full story on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/dA_3xgGZ Words: Ellen M. Shapiro Imagery: courtesy of the author ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #chiangmai #thailand #design #economicgrowth #economy #visitthailand #thaidesign #handcraft 

Design Thinkers Podcast: Steven Heller 🎙️⁠ ⁠ Welcome to the DesignThinkers Podcast! Join host and RGD President Nicola Hamilton as she digs into the archives of the DesignThinkers conference, reconnecting with past speakers about their talks and ideas that have shaped Canada’s largest graphic design conference.⁠ ⁠ This week’s guest is Steven Heller. Heller is the co-chair and co-founder of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design program. He was a senior art director at the New York Times for 33 years. He is the author or co-author of 200 books, mostly on design and pop culture, and has been a contributing editor to PRINT, BASELINE, EYE, and other design magazines. You’d know his writing best under the slug The Daily Heller. In this episode, Hamilton and Heller talk about how he got started, how he’s seen the industry change and the value of chronicling things to better understand our experiences. It’s a meandering conversation—the best kind of conversation in our opinion. ⁠ Listen on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/e3XFUYuF ⁠ Words: Nicola Hamilton RGD (she/her), Steven Heller Imagery: Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #rgd #rgdcanada #designthinkers #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #graphicdesigncanada #acclaim #designconference #thedailyheller #stevenheller #design 

A New Book Honors the Bygone Bowling Alley 🎳 There’s little else in America as inherently nostalgic as a bowling alley. From those ‘90s kids such as myself who grew up attending duckpin bowling birthday parties at kitschy spots in suburban strip malls to those who remember high school dates spent at the local lanes, to grow up in the States is to have a heartfelt reverence for the institution of the bowling alley. The signature style and aesthetic of bowling alley architecture is central to their mystique, which originally developed in mid-century California after World War II, in an effort to get more people going to the lanes. Suffice it to say, the strategy worked, with bowling alleys blooming nationwide. The history of this bowling alley boom is beautifully preserved and articulated in a new book from Angel City Press of the Los Angeles Public Library, Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling. Written by the LA preservationist and senior editor at Los Angeles Magazine, Chris Nichols, along with historian, advocate, and former president of the Museum of Neon Art, Adriene Biondo, Bowlarama encapsulates the enthusiasm and splendor surrounding mid-century bowling alley culture through vintage photographs, ephemera, and hand-drawn architectural renderings. Read the full story on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/epmyZrnt Words: Charlotte Beach Imagery: Angel City Press, Chris Nichols, Adriene Biondo ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #inspiration #book #creativenews #bowling #bygone #bowlingalley #art #midcentury #midcenturyarchitecture #midcenturycalifornia #architecture

Chisel & Flow: GT Pantheon is a New Classic 🏛️ Can something exemplify being etched in stone and flow as if drawn with a broad-nib pen? GT Pantheon, the newest typeface from the famed Swiss foundry Grilli Type, can and does. GT Pantheon was released late last month—what the foundry describes as an “interpretation of historic shapes in a contemporary manner.” Designed by the Switzerland-based duo of Noël Leu and Tobias Rechsteiner and produced in collaboration with Italian designer Antonio D’Elisiis, GT Pantheon found initial inspiration in the architectural details and letterforms of Rome’s Pantheon. This influence can be seen in its pointed serifs, chiseled transitions, and sharp digital anatomy, “unimpressed by the ink,” that can soften historic letterforms. Read the full story on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/eFba9dyj Words: Kim Tidwell Imagery: Grilli Type Foundry ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #typetuesday #typography #ink #typedesign #typographer #tyedesigner #fonts #type #chisel #flow #etch

Why Net Zero is the Ultimate Creative Brief 🚫 Climate change paralysis is a reality. It’s that feeling when the magnitude of the challenge seems so overwhelming that you find yourself unable to figure out what the right direction is, much less move in the right direction. Individuals feel it, with a growing number of people feeling helpless in response to the enormity of it all (a recent study found that half of young people believe that “humanity is doomed”). Businesses feel it too. A report by The Carbon Trust earlier this year found that a large number of businesses are “greenstalling,” getting stuck in a state of “analysis paralysis” in their efforts to progress toward net zero. Science, governments, and global organisations have a huge role to play in tackling climate change – through innovation, legislation, and guidance. But when it comes to envisioning a more sustainable future, creative thinking and the creative process are also crucial. A report last month by the Design Council in the UK found that 46% of designers feel they have the skills to help tackle the climate crisis. I agree. It’s time we start seeing the true value of design when dealing with such complex issues. Nothing brings out creativity and innovation like a deadline – and what could be more urgent than climate change? But every deadline needs a brief to deliver that creative approach. What if we looked at the climate emergency through this lens—as the ultimate creative brief? Read the full story on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/eBv2TEqZ Words: Sophie Morice Imagery: Andrej Lišakov for Unsplash+, The Design Council, United Nations  ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #netzero #creativebrief #future #sustainable #sustainability #responsibility #climatecrisis #noplanetb

The Daily Heller: Maira Kalman Celebrates the Dark and Light of Remorse 💐 Maira Kalman is a poet whose pictures are words come alive. After seeing a Kalman image, one cannot help but feel comfort, whether it’s a COVID-era billboard in Times Square or the new book "Still Life With Remorse: Family Stories" (HarperCollins Publishers). The book, an autobiographical exploration cum ode to the beauty of “dark,” opens with endpapers that set the emotional state that the subsequent paintings impart. Still Life With Remorse is also an exhibition at the MARY RYAN GALLERY, INC. “Meditating on the emotional weight of physical objects,” says Ryan, “Kalman presents beautiful, tender paintings with a hint of darkness. In this exhibition, the human presence is rarely seen but rather suggested through Kalman’s interiors and still lifes, all done with her signature sense of humor and exuberant use of color.” Read the full story on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/eCXAWMDH Words: Steven Heller Imagery: Maira Kalman ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #life #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #remorse #lightanddark #celebration #art #illustration #artist #book #author #autobiography #emotions #human

Two Craigs: 17/52 🪑 ⁠ Join us for this weekly conversation between photographer Craig Cutler and illustrator Craig Frazier, whose collaboration is a testament to the unexpected alchemy of creative play. The project consists of one weekly prompt interpreted by the pair for 52 weeks.⁠ ⁠ Week 17: Chair ⁠ Read the full story on PRINT: https://lnkd.in/ey7xigzu ⁠ Words & imagery: Craig Cutler & Craig Frazier ⁠ -----⁠ #print #printmag #printmagazine #printisnotdead #creative #identity #inspiration #linkinbio #creativenews #chair #photographer #illustrator #photography #illustration #twocraigs #creativeplay #weeklyprompts #fun