2011 Brand New Conference Report with Armin Vit: The conference website made a bold promise: "After a successful inaugural conference in New York City last year we wanted to take the show to the opposite side of the United States and San Francisco felt like the best hub for a West Coast gathering of brand and identity designers and aficionados." We turned to ...

Hey, Donovan Beery from 36 Point here, and with Matthew Porter unavailable to make it to Phoenix for the AIGA Pivot Conference, I was asked/volunteered/begged/did begging/said ok to cover the Neenah paper blogging duties. And wow, these things sneak up fast. It really hit me yesterday at the Field Paper Show in Omaha where Tom [...]

  Above: Happy type lovers soaking up the sun and the serifs at Type Camp on Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada. From left to right: Stephen Coles (instructor), Dean Gendall, Jessica Speigel, Jessica Yurasek, Erica-May Chan, Marian Bantjes (instructor), Sarah Clayton, Matt Soar, Aaron Bell, Tiffany Wardle (instructor). OK, so summer is over, but don’t ...

"Ramen served the purpose of sustaining people through disaster," writes correspondent Katelyn Bottoms, "Now, through Lucky Peach, Chang is simply renewing the noodle's mission in a different era, for a different problem." David Chang of Momofuku NYC created Lucky Peach, his “issue / episode" creation. We put our chopstix to it, sampling graphics most sublime, ...