Jessica C. White Jessica White, the co-founder of Ladies of Letterpress, uses her expertise as owner of Heroes & Criminals Press, a print shop and bindery with a focus in fine press and book arts, letterpress printing, and bookbinding, to … Read More

Sure, you’ve seen “V For Vendetta,” and you’ve undoubtedly seen Anonymous and the Occupy movement in the news, but do you know the real story behind those Guy Fawkes masks?  Guy Fawkes was instrumental in the Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy… Read More

Time to ditch the usual I’m-too-old-for-this-stuff costume this Halloween and let the creativity flow instead.… In Arjowiggins Creative Papers and Appleton Coated’s eternal quest to remind us just how irresistible the SKIN Curious Collection papers are (and that there are Read More

Without a dedicated menu item for creating a clipping mask, InDesign need to know the tricks for getting an image into a shape or text. AJ Wood shows InDesign users how to use the paste into command to insert an… Read More

We expanded our usual focus, moving, as Metahaven writes, “to the fringes of the design world.” You’ll find stories on the “design” of geopolitics, the artist behind M.I.A.’s unusual websites, Experimental Jetset’s grappling with modernism, and the masks that comic-book… Read More

With Cinco de Mayo fast approaching it seemed like a good time to look at traditional Mexican motifs as a jumping off point for inspiration. Any of these themes can be mined for invitations and party decorations for your Cinco… Read More

Mardi Gras celebrations are in full force, so what better time than the present to showcases seven of the most wicked Mardi Gras masks I’ve ever seen? Like the board game designs I highlighted, these Mardi Gras mask designs to… Read More

This article/tutorial is the sixth in the series. In this chapter of the Getting To Grips series we will be covering the following topics: Differences between Vector and Bitmap images Importing Photoshop files Importing Illustrator files Managing your placed files… Read More

Continuing the mini-series targeting the issue of ink drop-off in flexo printing using Adobe Illustrator, this article concentrates on specific object types and situations to watch out for. Once again, the ability to simulate or compensate for drop-off levels is… Read More

This article is published as part of the exclusive AG blog series Avoiding 10 Illustrator Publishing Pitfalls … A common requirement for designers and publishers is to convert artwork into pure grayscale, or “greyscale” if you’re on our side of the Read More

Before Yoko Ono there was Yayoi Kusama, a performance and conceptual artist for whom intensity and hubris knew no bounds. When I was seventeen (the innocent "art director" of the fledgling Screw magazine) I used to field calls from Kusama,… Read More

Back in 2007 Chris Dreyer purchased a couple of presses and taught himself how to use them. Having set up shop in what used to be a walk-in freezer in an old warehouse he has been printing for himself as… Read More