Insights, our annual graphic design lecture series, returns on Tuesday nights, starting tomorrow with Kevin Quealy and continuing during the next four weeks with Michael Hart, Julie Beeler, James Goggin, and Casey Caplow. Buy your tickets! These lectures will be webcast live and archived on the Walker Channel, where you can also view past lectures such as Experimental Jetset, Project Projects, Irma Boom…

The DEATH of led me to make .  I found that the DEATH was not that of the form of ; the DEATH was/is in the heads of most people who attempt to. Theis a mirror of the world. The world is falling apart.

Here is another (slightly overwhelming) group of images from our archives: a series of performing arts pamphlets from the late 1960′s/early 70′s that roughly sticks to the same system. The earliest pamphlet is from April 1968, a black and white flier for JAZZ at the Guthrie (which turns out to be one of the most interesting of the bunch). The last pamphlet we could find was from March 1972 for Merce…

We were recently invited to participate in The Way Beyond: Wide White Space, an exhibition at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco (January 20–February 5, 2011) that focuses on exhibition design, designers who curate exhibitions, and everything in between. The show is curated by Jon Sueda of Stripe SF, who is also the resident designer at the Wattis and teaches at CCA. “Historically, galleries and…

(a very brief history) In 2007 I was asked by artist (and McKnight Photography Fellow) Monica Haller to assist her in designing a book from content that was the culmination of a three-year conversation between Haller and Iraq War Veteran, Riley Sharbonno. The resulting book, Riley and his story., has just been released in a second edition by onestar press — and our collaborative efforts have continued…

Newly established Edition MK (a small-scale, independent publishing platform founded in Minneapolis as an extension of Making Known) announces the release of its debut title, DDDDoomed—Or, Collectors & Curators of the Image: A Brief Future History of the Image Aggregator, which forms Vol. I of VIII of a series titled Img Ctrl—texts regarding the contemporary image world. DDDDoomed, crafted as a…

It’s that time of year! The NY Art Book Fair will be in full swing, November 5–7, 2010 and IFS, Ltd. will be there on the 3rd floor at booth CC01. The site specific collaboration and publication The Book Trust Prospectus is, in non-equal parts: a local currency, a stock prospectus for The Book Trust, an exploration into the nature of small-scale publishing and its presence at the NY Art Book Fair (Rob…

In 2002, I took a photography workshop in Santa Fe and failed to immediately recognize that one of my classmates was in fact J. Grant Brittain, one of the pioneers of skate photography. If you looked at an issue of Transworld Skateboarding from 1983 until 2004, you have seen his work. I recently caught up with Grant, who is now the Director of Photography, Production Manager and Co-Owner of The…

If you receive our bi-monthly magazine, you might have noticed that things look a bit different. We just sent the second issue of our redesign to the printers and it should be in your mailbox later this month! The push for a redesign was prompted by a need to better understand how our communications work in concert: what purpose should our printed magazine serve in relationship to our website…