January 2009 Archives

Josef Reyes: One of Print Magazine's New Visual Artist for 2009 Shares a New Favorite

Remy Charlip's "Arm In Arm" is a children's book I picked up at the Antiques Garage flea market on 25th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. The illustrations in "Arm in Arm" are delightful and intelligent, but what I find most remarkable about this book is the way in which the illustrations acknowledge and exploit the physical properties of the page.

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Anton Ioukhnovets: Inspired By Moving Pictures

Lately, I've been inspired by moving pictures rather than print. Hayao Miyazaki has been a ray of sunshine in my head lately.

His imagination just blows me away. I wish I had Totoro as a Neighbor, commuted to work on the Cat bus, married Princess Nausaca and sent my depressed soul to the special bathhouse in the sky to cleanse it from the everyday bullshit.


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Jeremy Leslie: Some Faves from the Magazine Blogger from Across the Pond

Many of my favourite independent magazines have recently published excellent new issues. Dutch fashion title Fantastic Man continues to lead the way in men's titles, providing influential directions in both art direction and design and in balancing serious editorial with a knowing sense of intelligent, ironic humour. Helsinki's Kasino A4 presents a melancholic Finnish look at the modern world, this time focusing on our sex lives. Moving across Scandinavia to Norway, Carl*s Cars continues to examine the relationship between people and cars in its charmingly gentle way.
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Julia Moburg: I can't stop looking at Giles Revell

"Nature can design better than you, fool,"  captures a principle I learned in art school. Our professors instilled the idea that nature had already produced a multitude of design solutions with integrity, utility, and innate beauty. If we could just turn down the Joy Division, pay her some attention, and use what we observed in our own work (biomimicry being the sincerest form of flattery), the rewards would be plentiful.  … MORE