Rural Studio Next Week

The PDC will be lecturing and conducting a workshop at the Rural Studio on May 14th and 15th. Yikes, that's next week! The workshop will be on the subject of making books that contain the work of a single project. Our friend Mark Wise, who is an instructor at …

Frank Chimero

We ordered one print from Frank and he packed the shipping tube with tons of extra stuff for the Public Design Center! Wow!

www.flickr.com/photos/frank-sparrow/

www.frankchimero.com/

http://store.makemakemake.org/

Using Coda workshop

This week, the PDC had a great time giving a workshop about the application Coda. Coda is a rockin' web-building app from the indie app house Panic, the makers of the best FTP app in teh w0rld, Transmit. They graciously donated two licenses to our efforts. …

Indexhibit

For our Indexhibit workshop this week, Vaska sent us rockin' posters. They're awesome!

indexhibit.org

tatiret.com

Library Catalog

PDC intern Brittany has been working hard to catalog and document every publication in the PDC Library. She's dutifully scanned in every barcode and, in many cases, typed in every bit of information by hand. A tedious task. Not only that, but she then …

Feltron 2007 Annual Report

The PDC library got its copy of the 2007 Feltron Annual Report.

If you've never encountered it, each year, Nicholas Felton produces a report of all of his personal activities such as number of tracks listened to, number of subway rides, and so forth. …

Proceed and Be Bold: Part Deux

We traveled to Gordo, Alabama last night to see our friend Amos Kennedy's new printing shop! New friend Laura Zinger was also there finishing up some filming for the documentary that she is making on him for Brown Finch Films. Peep the trailer: Proceed and Be …

Here Come our Clinics

We're excited to let you know that our print and web clinics are being launched. We'll get started on Monday April 14th with Pretty Much All You Need to Know About Adobe Illustrator, an introduction to Illustrator. It's been one of our most requested workshops …

Print

Will brought the newest issue of Print into the office this week. This is the 10-year anniversary of Print's New Visual Artists competition. Each year, the editors put the call out for recommendations of the most vibrant communication artists. They then distill …

Fortune

We had lunch at the chinese restaurant this afternoon. This fortune greeted us as it was time to get back to work.

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Proceed and Be Bold

Our friend Amos is featured in an upcoming documentary by Laura Zinger and brown finch films. Amos is a letterpress printer in Alabama who often delights in typographically testing social boundaries. You can see his work here and read more about the film

Zine Library

There are three libraries here at the Center. They are open and available to the public. First, there's the PDC Reference Library, which is comprised of about 150 newish art and design books. Second, the PDC Materials Library is comprised of paper samples, …

Site Launch

We're excited to announce that we've launched our website at http://publicdesigncenter.org . For those of you that have been following along with our progress, you'll probably see some familiarity on the site. That's because we're working hard on our …

New Pile of Zines

Back in December, Kate's zines were in the show Limited Run: The Print and Zine Show. at Open Space Beacon in NYC. She bought a handful of fellow-exhibitors zines and they came in yesterday. They've been sitting on the PDC work tables and we've been looking …

Coudal Reception

The Public Design Center will be hosting a reception for Jim Coudal on Tuesday February 19th, 2008 at 8:30pm. The reception will follow Jim Coudal's presentation at in the Jury Room at Giles Hall on the campus of Mississippi State University earlier that …

Wooden Nickels

Our wooden nickels arrived this afternoon. They turned out great. They're smoother than they appear the photograph above.

We're providing an ongoing series of workshop clinics to the public on the subjects of print design and web development. We're trying …

Screenprinting Table

The table we were using to screenprint was pretty wimpy, so we built a bigger and better one. It's still an ad hoc table though. We grabbed the saw horses from Kate's studio, the surface is 3/4" MDF with a whiteboard sheet on top. (Does whiteboard material …

Cabinet Issue no. 28

Issue no. 28 of Cabinet arrived at the PDC this week. Subject: Bones. It will take me a month to digest the whole of it, but these sections stand out from what I've read thus far: