New items in the shop including these vintage educational posters from Argentina.
Musicians Around the World by Richard Erdoes
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Moderne Werbe und Gebrauchs Grafik by Hans Neuburg
For those of you that missed the preview, the shop is now live and open to the public. Here’s a few of the items you’ll find inside.
Firmen-Image by Anton Stankowski
Jacqueline S. Casey – Posters – Thirty Years of Design at MIT (Signed)
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Next week we will be launching an online shop for the holidays. To access the preview sale you will need a code which will be sent via email prior to the event. If you would like to receive an invite code, email us with your details. Please include “grain edit store” in the subject line of the message and your email address in the body.
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Huge thanks to John O’Reilly and the rest of the crew at Varoom! magazine for featuring us in their latest issue. The 14-page article titled “The Outsiders” profiles Grain Edit, Unit Editions, John Ptak and showcases our fascination with analyzing, preserving and distributing archival imagery. In addition, each of us shared works that have shaped our curatorial views on design. Varoom! #15 is available in select shops in Europe as well as the U.S. Copies can be purchased online here.
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As you may have noticed, a new name has been covering all things typography related on Grain Edit. The name’s Liz Meyer, and it should ring a bell. Liz is a talented designer and illustrator based in Brooklyn, one half of Script & Seal, and the newest addition to our Grain Edit crew.
To give you a better feel for our East Coast correspondent, we’ve conducted a little interview with her that you’re sure to enjoy! Without further a do, please welcome Liz…
What brought you to Grain Edit and what are your favorite things about the site?
I have never been a big blog-reader but I would always check out Grain Edit (seriously). [It's] probably because the work featured was actually inspirational to me, as opposed to posts that were an arbitrary mix of new work. I think it’s great that GE has a real “voice” on the internet, standing up for cool modern design.
You’re responsible for curating most of the typography we feature at Grain Edit. What do you look for in the artists you feature?
I always want to make sure that everyone I post inspires me in some way. Of course I have a specific style of design and typography that I gravitate towards, but I think it’s really important to see a range of styles that are beautifully executed to keep you at the top of your own personal game.
What is a typical day for you like?
It usually begins with a bagel & coffee. I find it really hard to focus for the most part, so if I don’t get started working while I eat said breakfast, I will have trouble getting into it. I often find myself working straight through the night until around 2am; so as you can see, I’m living the freelance dream!
What are 3 of your favorite books and albums?
Albums:
Sigur Rós - Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
David Bazan - Live at the Grey Eagle
Maria Taylor - 11:11
(I definitely have a type)
Books:
Aesop’s Fables
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
+ many others, mostly short stories
What is one thing most people don’t know about you?
While I am working during the day from my “home studio,” I watch all of the
Grain Edition #01 - Limited Edition Grain Edit T-Shirt designed by Invisible Creature
We are excited to announce the Limited Edition Galaxy Blue Grain Edit T-Shirt is now available. The shirt was designed by Seattle’s own Invisible Creature. We love the design and hope you do too! The 5 color t-shirt features a gaggle of cool creatures sitting down for story time (my favorite is the little guy with the red and blue eyes). Each shirt is lovingly screen-printed by the guys and gals over at Blue Collar Press right here in the good ole USA.
You can order the Limited Edition Galaxy Blue Grain Edit Shirt here.
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You can order the Limited Edition Galaxy Blue Grain Edit Shirt at our Etsy shop.
Thanks to everyone that pre-ordered a shirt. We mailed all the pre-orders out at the beg. of January. If your shirt is failed to arrive, please contact us through the contact button in the right column of our Etsy shop.
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Introducing the grain edit job board. For job seekers, we already have some listings posted plus on the main page of the job board you can sign up for job alerts or subscribe to the job listings RSS feed. We’ve also created a twitter account for the job board , so you can follow listings there as well. We’ve added a link to the new section in our top navigation, so you can easily access the listings whenever you want.
For companies interested in posting a listing to our job board, we offering a special discount. Use the coupon code ‘promo’ to receive 50% off.
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A few days ago Twitter rolled out a new feature called “lists”. This feature is still in Beta, so it appears it’s only available to a small group of users right now. Lists are a way to organize the people you follow and to discover new and interesting Twitter accounts. We set up a handful of lists in different catergories, so you can easily find new designers & artists to follow.
Our lists include some of our favorites to follow in graphic design, typography and illustration. We also set up lists for web design, blogs and stores, but these lists need alot of work. You can find all of our lists on the right hand side of our Twitter profile page. These lists are far from comprehensive, so if you have any suggestions of people to add please let us know in the comments.
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I had a blast speaking at Chronicle Books’ 555 event last week. Huge thanks to Suzanne LaGassa and the rest of the Chronicle crew for the invitation. The theme of the night was centered around blogs/design communities. Lauren Smith and Derek Fagerstrom from the Curiosity Shoppe and Smarts and Crafts, David from BoingBoing, Joe from Typophile, and Suzanne from the Chronicle Book’s blog also presented that night. Each of us we’re given five minutes to speak about our process and inspiration. It was great to meet everyone and I hope this series continues!
You can see pictures from the event here.
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The Deck Ad Network survey. Answer a few questions, have a few laughs and enter to win some goodies.
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We tallied the votes in our Loto de Socorrismo caption writing contest and #5 is the winner! Congratulations to Emily D ! She will be receiving a hard to find kid’s book that we will soon be featuring on grain edit.
You can catch Emily at her blog and twitter. She has an Etsy store as well.
Thanks to everyone that contributed captions! New giveaway coming very soon.
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12pm PST (2pm central) today I will be providing live commentary for the epic Layer Tennis match between Aaron James Draplin and Chris Glass. Post your comments about the match to Twitter and include #lyt in the message and they’ll show up right here on the Crowd Page. Plus you can follow the official LT Twitter feed.
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A twibe is a group of Twitter users interested in a common topic who would like to be able to communicate with each other. On each twibe’s page, there is a list of twibe members. There is also a tweet stream that lists tweets from twibe members which contain key word tag.
We created a twibes for grain edit, mid century modern and graphic design.
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You may have noticed our new poster picks section in the right column. We’ve teamed up with our friend Lad at Poster Cabaret and every few weeks we will be highlighting a piece from the the online store’s collection of limited edition gig posters and hard to find art prints. Poster Cabaret carries posters by many of the artists we feature on grain edit including: The Small Stakes, Aesthetic Apparatus, Matte Stephens, Vahalla Studios, Delicious Design League, Doublenaut, Invisible Creature and more.
Our first poster pick is the Beck Concert poster designed by Jason Munn of The Small Stakes
Grand Prize goes to MidcenturyMaude 2nd Prize goes to Abby S
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Huge thanks to Sam Grawe and the rest of Dwell for featuring Grain Edit in their Blog Round up. I’m a long time Dwell fan so, this is a huge honor for me.
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If you haven’t signed up for the Grain Edit Design Stimulus Package Giveaway, It’s not too late. Giveaway ends at 6pm Pacific standard Time.
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In addition, to the Grain Edit Facebook group we’ve created a fan page. This will not replace the Facebook group, but we do plan to use it to announce special events and giveaways.
Join us at the Grain Edit Fan Page.
Also catch us on Flickr and Twitter.
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I want to thank Michelle Mccormick for inviting me to contribute to her wonderful blog Inspiration Resource. I’ve been a fan of her site for a while, so I was excited when she asked if I would be willing to share a few pictures of how I organize and collect inspiration. I happily agreed and broke out the camera. In the post you’ll see a few pictures of the folders I use to store labels and the mylar envelopes I use to store brochures and maps.
You can see all the pictures here.
After you check our the post, be sure to browse around the rest of the site. Five days a week Michelle posts great examples of textile design, photography, graphic design, illustration and more.
clip art collection from the early 1970s
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Keep checking in! We’ll be announcing a new addition to the Grand Prize in the Grain Edit Stimulus Package Giveaway!
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For those of you who missed out on our last giveaway we’ve got another one big one lined up for this coming monday. Goodies from Steven Harrington, 2K Gingham and many more. You won’t want to miss it.
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We’re big fans of the art and design blog Booooooom,so we’re super excited to see that they’ve included us in their list of 17 creative websites to bookmark (unless you are dumb)! Make it 18! add Booooooom to your boomarks! It’s a great site.
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Ok so we are twaddling, twapping, twerding, twoahbowing, whatever it is we’re on Twitter now! You’ll find random musings, extra credit links, and eventually even some giveaways just for our twitter homies.
Catch us on Twitter @grainedit
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Happy Holidays everyone! Thanks for making 2008 a great year. Gleeful shout outs to all the wonderful people that have contributed, commented and generally taken time out of their day to visit Grain Edit. We’ll be back on Jan 5th. Lots of good things planned for the new year!
(image via webgirlpip’s awesome flickr photostream)
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I hope everyone had a great weekend. Liz and I went to this new Singaporean restaurant in Lafayette. The food was great. I had the Nasi Lemak and it was on point. The rice had so much flavor. We wanted to get the Chicken Rice, but they ran out. Say what? Singaporean food without Chicken Rice? Oh well, I was kind of bummed about that, but we’ll be back.
Thanks for all the wonderful comments on the Grain Edit 1 Year Anniversary Giveaway! It’s really inspiring to see all the positive feedback. You guys are the best!
If you haven’t signed up for the giveaway, it’s not too late. You can sign up here.
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Tomorrow we will be celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Grain Edit and we’ve got a big giveaway planned, so be sure to stop by! We’ve had a great year and want to thank all our awesome readers for their wonderful comments and for making Grain Edit a frequent destination.
I’d especially like to thank all of the designers and illustrators that took time out of their busy schedules to share with us.
Some of the highlights of the past year include:
Matte Stephens showed us his awesome home. Don Clark of Invisible Creature schooled us on his “family portrait”. Scott Thares of Wink broke out the KISS drawings. Bo Lundberg took us behind the scenes of Barefoot in the Park and Jason Munn of the Small Stakes showed us his Horse Chest.
Ben Butcher of Pixar gave us a sneak a peek into the making of the Wall-E picture book Lots of Bots. Sean and Nicole Flores shared their insane book collection. Ian Follett showed us some amazing stamps. Small studio, Odopod and Chronicle Books all graciously opened up their spaces for us and Mike Davis of Burlesque served us up a tight mix.
We created some new groups:
Modern Sticker, Stamp and label club
Some of the most popular posts (besides the interviews and studio visits) of the past year include:
Publicity and graphic design in the chemical industry - Hans Neuburg 1967
Giant Golden Book of Biology - An Introduction to the Science of Life c1961
Henri’s Walk to Paris- c1962- illustrations and design Saul Bass
Alain Gree - l’electricitie c1969
Israeli Environment stamps designed by Eliezer Weishoff in 1975
53 Years of Jauna Gaita Magazine
Issues of Icographic magazine 1971-1978 produced by ICOGRADA
Concepts - Promotional book for US Steel c1961
Giovanni Pintori exhibition catalog c2003
Vette Annonce type specimen sheet late - Netherlands 1950s/ early 60s
Lastly we’d like send thank you’s to: Coudal, Design Related and Julia Rothman for allowing us to contribute to each of their sites. How magazine for naming us one of the top 10 Sites for Designers for the month of December. David Airey for including us in the Top 50 Graphic Design Blogs and for all the great sites that featured us in their posts.
We have some exciting things planned for the next few weeks and months, so stay tuned. Thanks again everyone!
If you haven’t already, consider subscribing to the Grain Edit RSS. and join us tomorrow for our 1 year anniversary giveaway!
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