Category: Inspiration

My Butter is Better, the most recent installment of Stefan Sagmeister’s touring art exhibitions, is now on view at Galería Hilario Galguera Madrid through October—and tomorrow, a version takes up residence at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Mexico. The show is a selection of more than 20 paintings made from 2022–2025 that combine […]

In the spring of 1970, more than 20 million Americans poured into the streets for the first Earth Day. It was a tidal wave of collective energy that reshaped policy, created the EPA, and ignited a global conversation around the environment. Fifty-five years later, we find ourselves at another inflection point. The science is irrefutable, […]

Connecting Dots is a monthly column by writer Amy Cowen, inspired by her popular Substack, Illustrated Life. Each month, she’ll introduce a new creative postcard prompt. So grab your supplies and update your mailing list! Play along and tag @print_mag and #postcardprompts on Instagram. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Colette Into […]

As you might gather from the publisher’s description below, Open Wide is an … unsettling (!) book. I’ve always been fascinated by how cover designers can lean into the darker sides of a narrative without spilling into full-on genre territory—and Eli Mock absolutely nails the vibe on Jessica Gross’ Open Wide. Below, he tells us […]

I’ve been following Cj Hendry’s work since 2013, when she was drawing in black and white pen with painstaking precision. Back then, her focus was on surface and detail. Over the years, I’ve watched Hendry push her practice outward, moving from colored pencils into immersive experiences that swallow you whole, each new project less about […]

Bamp-badamp-ba-danna-damp, ba-danna-damp! MTV’s sonic signature by Jonathan Elias To borrow from Longhi on Caravaggio, there was life before MTV and life after and the two were not the same. Indeed, if I simply mention some song titles or lyrics, you will no doubt conjure up the images from the then-new art form: video. Here goes: […]

This industry perspective is by Talia Patapoutian, research lead at Red Antler. Indulge me for a moment: imagine you’re standing inside the walls of Game of Thrones‘ Winterfell, with centuries of heroes, traitors, myths, and magic swirling around you. Or perhaps you’re strolling through Tolkien’s beloved Shire, wandering idyllic green fields and ducking into hobbit-holes. […]

No matter how serious the intent of any design project, a designer must inevitably begin with the freedom of unfettered exploration; let’s call that play. Play is a key element of surprise, and audiences love surprises. When it comes to graphic design, in particular, play underpins and increases its significance as mass communication and popular […]

This is a book cover column—and thus it seemed like a wildly egregious oversight to not feature a new book that manages to pull off two hardcover covers in a single volume. Confused? We were, too. So we asked McSweeney’s art director, Sunra Thompson, to riff on the double cover to Mostly Everything: The Art […]

Five minutes is rarely an eternity, but it’s a lot more time than you think. I experienced this in Tokyo in meetings with the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company. The meetings ran with an engineer’s precision. My allotment for the creative proposals was usually 5 minutes — no more. No less. You learn to tell […]