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Print your Personal Mini Newspaper!

Love this. It's called the Little Printer. It uses your iPhone (or other smartphones) to gather info, news, and puzzles into a personalized mini newspaper. This friendly, wireless, compact cube is a thermal printer so it's inkless and prints onto thermal rolls of paper. Just press the button to get your morning or evening "paper".  I signed up to be the first to hear when pre-orders are open in 2012. You can follow @BERGCloud to get updates on Twitter, too. And, if you didn't know, we sell thermal printer rolls.

Sappi's Pumped Up Kicks

Just got my copy of the latest Sappi promotion on McCoy called Peace, Love and Understanding. The book documents what top designers of this year's AGI Congress created with Sharpies on America's most iconic blank canvas: The Chuck Taylor Converse tennis shoe. They were given a fleeting 60 minutes to capture their personal interpretation of the this year's theme of the Congress in Chicago.  78 works of art were created which have been curated and collected in this commerative book.
AGI is the Alliance Graphique Internationale. They are an elite society of graphic designers and artist who design for the world's top corporations and institutions. In 1952 AGI incorporated in Paris with 65 members from 10 countries. Today there are over 370 members from 32 countries.

Besides the great imagery of the book, the printing of the piece is beautiful.  McCoy, Gloss, 100 Cover is printed with Kaleido UV four color process, metallic silver and a spot reticulating dull UV varnish and then it was overall gloss UV coated. Lot's of print processes combined here but well executed. You can feel the canvas texture of the Chuck Taylor's. The Kaliedo UV process is a printing process that allows you to achieve 6 to 7 color printing results with just four color process.  This is UV printing which means the ink cures instantly under ultra violet light on press. The interior pages are conventionally printed hi-def four color process with a match silver metallic McCoy, Silk, 100 Text. This phenomenal book was designed by VSA Partners. Quantities are on their way to my sample room.

Chalk it Up

Last week while at the LewisCarnegie and Woody Welch studio, there was a debate. The studio was preparing their polaroid show "EAST of Position" for the EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR. They painted a huge rolling chalkboard wall for the event's signage. Graphic imagery was produced to chalk up on the board. But, their projector wasn't working and time was ticking away before the opening. Much discussion insued about alternative ways to get the job done. Who else might have a projector? Could one be rented? The conversation ended with the suggestion "Why not just do it old school?" We paused. We freaked. We laughed. How could you do such exacting work with chalk without the aid of "art tools"? Needless to say, a projector was found, the wall was chalked beautifully and the event was well recieved.  But as an admirer of chalk art, it got me thinking.

• Are there professional chalk artist?
• Do they do it "old school"?

 

Meet Dana Tanamachi, graphic designer and custom chalk letterer from Brooklyn, New York. And yes, she does it "old school". It is amazing and mezmerizing to watch. She creates large scale chalk installations in NYC. She also applies her chalk lettering to graphic design projects. More time lapse videos of her work HERE.

Postscript:

Ohhh... got a tweet from  @dana_tanamachi and she wanted to see our chalk.  Here's how LewisCarngie's chalking turned out for the event. Chalk on one side and polaroids on the other. And the studio looked amazing with the blown up polaroids on the walls. Check out the accompanying book with a Classic Crest, Epic Black, Eggshell finish cover.

 

 

FunFunFun Fest Poster

The FunFunFun Fest was this past weekend. Saw lots of twitterpics and instagrams. The lineup was really good. Take a look at this festival poster designed by GUERILLA SUIT and silkscreened printed in four colors by INDUSTRY PRINT. The stock is our new CLASSIC CREST, Eggshell, 80 Cover in Epic Black.

Rearranged Paper Maps

I was moving around PINTEREST and got turned on to this artist that I had never seen before. Thank you, Hollis! Feast your eyes on the work of British artist CHRIS KENNY. He is know for his three dimensional paper drawings /collage-constructions made from fragments of maps and found text from books. He cuts and rearranges them into these beautiful paper collages. So interesting.