In PRINT's Regional Design Annual,
the New York City region illustrates the design competition at its
best: It proves that the judges don't care who you are or what your
title is-the best work wins the day, regardless of whether you're a
beginner or you're Michael Bierut.
Here are some NYC highlights from the past two Regional Design Annuals. See more...
Enter your designs by April 29 for a chance to see your work alongside the best of the best in our milestone 2016 RDA! |
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A is for Animal: Showcasing a Typeface in an Illustrated Alphabet Book
"A is for anteater" and "z is for zebra," but in James Marsh's A-Z Book of Animal Verse,
every letter of Sanzibar Pro font has an accompanying two-page spread
featuring an animal, image and four-line verse. This 60-page book is
printed on Colorplan Mist paper and only 150 signed, limited-edition
copies are available for purchase.
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Violating Optical Principles for Typographic Effect
Typography
tends to be a rule-driven pursuit, but most careful typographers are
also keen to figure out when those rules can or even should be violated.
If most good typography
follows the rules of linear and atmospheric perspective, it's worth
asking what happens when you throw those rules out the window. It turns
out that violating rules of perspective can result in both some of the
least and most visually aggressive design work.
The youth-oriented design movements of the hippie '60s and punk '70s,
produced work that, at face value, appear to have little in common
visually but are united by a typographical vocabulary that often
violates perspective rules.
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A Chicago Tribune Geek-Out!
This is going to be a crazy quilt of material concerning aspects
of the Chicago Tribune that have injected themselves into J. J.
Sedelmaier's personal and professional life. It was originally going to
be exclusively about the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition and the book
of entries published in 1922, but the more Sedelmaier started writing,
the more he realized that there were several fun and interesting
elements he could cover.
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Typography 101: Letterform Design I
Typography is one of the most essential and omnipresent fields today,
and while Type Design is only a part of the larger typography field, it
is indispensable for learning how to perceive the intricacies of
typographic perception.
This class will help you to learn the details of typographic
perception through basic letterform design. You will learn typographic
nomenclature, basic letterform design, positive/negative space balance,
and more.
$59.99
When: Apr. 18 - May 15
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How Zeitgeist Influenced the Color of 2015
Popular Operations founder Sem Devillart spends her time interpreting the psychology behind cultural changes.
Color coating company AkzoNobel produces nail polish, car colors,
wall paint, and pretty much any other kind of pigmented coating you can
think of. The company hired Devillart in 2013 as part of a group effort
to pinpoint which color would capture the mood of 2015.
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