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Spotted in NYC on a Mail Carrier Headed Your Way: SPD 46 Annuals Are Here!

We could not be more pleased to announce that the 46th Publication Design Annual is finally IN New York, and shipping out worldwide today to all our wonderful members. If you're close to New York, you should have it within... MORE

Celebrating The Times Magazine's Most Iconic Images

When you work for a magazine that produces 52 issues a year, there is not a lot of time for reflecting on the past. But that's exactly what Kathy Ryan, the longtime photo editor of The New York Times Magazine,... MORE

SELF-PORTRAIT: Student Photography Competition

Are you currently enrolled in an accredited college?Great, now select up to three pictures (only 3) and enter this competition. Enter it NOW.Why? Because it's free, because your entry is due April 1st (no fooling!), because winning will change your... MORE

AIGA/NY (hearts) SPD Members: Marian Bantjes

We have great, great news for SPD members this afternoon who are yearning for even more delightful, inspiring opportunities to meet some of their heroes: Monday, November 1st (next week!) the AIGA/NY has a one-night-only event with self-confessed lapsed graphic... MORE

Cat Got Your Tongue?

A week from today, Tuesday, November 2nd, join us at the SPD Speakeasy for a conversation with Laurie Kratochvil and Albert Watson about Albert's latest books: "Strip Search," a ten-year personal project shooting the life and lives of Las Vegas,... MORE

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Typomag: A design library must-have

Barcelona-based publisher Index Book recently released TypoMag,which highlights--you guessed it--magazine typography. Curated by editorial designer Laura Meseguer, the book features an international mix of publications known for inventive font usage... ... MORE

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Rare Specimen No. 5
Blue Note LP Covers

As part of this year's Pub 45 celebration of great work, we're asking people to share some of their personal inspirations with us. Our fifth entry in the Rare Specimens collection comes from Robert Newman, who shares his love for... MORE

SPD@FIT: George Lois on 'The Esquire Covers @ MoMA'

We show this all the time, we love it so, but there's never too much of a great thing: here's a a tiny flash of what you might get a chance to see at our evening with George Lois for... MORE

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SPD@FIT: George Lois on 'The Esquire Covers @ MoMA'

We show this all the time, we love it so, but there's never too much of a great thing: here's a a tiny flash of what you might get a chance to see at our evening with George Lois for... MORE

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Rare Specimen No. 1
Kenji Aoki

 rare• adjective (rarer, rarest) 1 occurring very infrequently. 2 remarkable: a player of rare skill.    -- ORIGIN Latin rarus.specimen• noun 1 an individual animal, plant, object, etc. used as an example of its species or type for scientific study... MORE

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 5!)

This list makes 25! More great design books from your friends and peers--purchases you need to make to fill up that Herman Miller bookcase. If you have a book you'd like us to include, contact me at ganderson@spotnyc.com...... MORE

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 3!)

Now that I've exhausted the patience and goodwill of my coworkers, I've moved on to colleagues' favorite design reads. Please note that we're now on numbers 11 through 15. It's like Julie and Julia! Can we make it to 100... MORE

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 2!)

Again, Andrea Dunham and I are on a crusade to solicit your thoughts on the one design book you make sure to keep handy at your desk (or night table, if you're really into it...). Before polling the masses, I... MORE

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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... MORE

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Weapon of Choice Assualt SPD 43 Annual

As the annuals are arriving on your desks like hotcakes, we thought it would be nice to hear from this year's design team, Weapon of Choice, a design firm created last year by Todd Albertson and Tom Brown. As Albertson... MORE

Best Holiday Gift Spot: Dashwood Books NYC

If you, like me, are looking for that special, unique gift for the hard-to-buy-for visual person in your life, then look no further than Dashwood Books at 33 Bond Street in New York City.... MORE

A Treasure on Your Bookshelves

Are you wanting to clean out your bookshelves or desperately looking for an out of print photo book? You might want to try Photo-eye and a great guy named Eric Miles, whom I have had wonderful dealings with.... MORE