PDX
post a comment | posted Apr 2
Originally posted at Public Design Center
We haven't posted on here in a bit, partially due to being a bit preoccupied with work, partially due to our big news (see below), partially due to blog laziness, and partially due to some hiccups encountered with this installation of Mova...
Proceed and Be Bold
post a comment | posted Mar 5
Originally posted at Public Design Center
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 mo...
Zine Library
post a comment | posted Feb 28
Originally posted at Public Design Center
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 ...
Site Launch
post a comment | posted Feb 27
Originally posted at Public Design Center
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 workin...
New Pile of Zines
post a comment | posted Feb 22
Originally posted at Public Design Center
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 ...
Coudal Reception
post a comment | posted Feb 18
Originally posted at Public Design Center
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 Univer...
Wooden Nickels
post a comment | posted Feb 14
Originally posted at Public Design Center
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 deve...
Screenprinting Table
post a comment | posted Feb 13
Originally posted at Public Design Center
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 ...
Cabinet Issue no. 28
post a comment | posted Feb 4
Originally posted at Public Design Center
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:Colors: MauveShelley Jackson, who you might recognize from...