Color fans: we’ve got a smashing invite for you. Join us at the?Art Directors Club in New York on October 4-6 for?Print’s very first Color Conference! We’ve gathered design’s most brilliant thinkers to focus on a fascinating, yet under-examined question: what explains color’s power to motivate, trouble, persuade and feed our spirits? Here’s a sneak [...]

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In Lubinje, a small, picturesque village of 3500 inhabitants, a few hours from Prishtina, the capital of Kosovo, members of the Trebesh community live in colorful houses. They also have a colorful custom - or rite - of "beautifying brides on their wedding day," writes Nita Deda in Kosovo 2.0 magazine. As part of their [...]

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Who'd win in a fashion fight, the original Wonder Woman or Miss Fury? Well, one of them wears a headband, a bustier, a star-spangled skirt, and calf-high boots, all in bright, primary colors, which she often models in manacles. The whole ensemble is tres tacky. And the other one vogues in the finest haute couture [...]

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By Nicole Torres If you used to hide issues of Playboy under your bed (or sneak peeks at your dad’s stash), the secret’s out?and it’s on display. Tomorrow, those centerfolds of your teenage years (and perhaps beyond) will be featured in a new exhibition, called “The Playboy Commission,” at the New York gallery/shop Partners & [...]

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I recently had a client who was going to let me have a "free for all" with rainbows in her boutique. It is not often someone trusts a crazy artist to have a color freak-out, imagine my delight! Unfortunately they backed out; but not before I had done a sh*t ton of research for inspiration [...]

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Jamel Shabazz's books Back in the Days and A Time Before Crack, full of?informal street portraits of his fellow New Yorkers in the early and mid 1980s, caught hip-hop's style and fashion in all its fun and simplicity. The shots from Brooklyn and Uptown high schools, shopping spots and subway cars and platforms show the [...]

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. . .? There is Hitlerpornography. This is the lionization of the madman through recreation and, in this case, replication. Although this action (or aktion) figure is labled "war criminal" there is still an inescapable fetishistic rationale for its being in the marketplace. In Germany such iconography is outlawed, here it is absorbed into the [...]

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Last Saturday?Parsons The New School for Design kicked off its first ever art and design festival, and with nearly 200 public events taking place across its campus and around New York City what a festival it is! The event runs to May 23, 2011 culminating with a daylong block party on May 21 that will [...]

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The things we take for granted today may, and often do, become artifacts of tomorrow. These swatches from a French notions shop for Parisian fabrics, were not intended as either art or artifact, yet together they transcend their function. In fact, they become snapshots of a time and place. Not only is the typography appealing, [...]

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You can never predict when SEX will sneak up from behind. It can creep in when least expected. So be vigilant! Be smart! Be protected! Save lives! So says the crew at? Grey Worldwide, Dusseldorf, Germany, in their "Sex is no accident. Always use a condom" campaign (stumbled upon by accident by Mirko Ilic). Well, [...]

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