Graphic Design

Tonight: Fuck Buttons Sightings at Mercury Lounge

TALKIE WALKIE

A discussion with filmmaker-artist Mike Mills

Design Within Reach

Ditch that old poster for some real art

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Ditch that old poster for some real art

Cindy Bernard: 'Silent Key'

Ditch that old poster for some real art

No-Collar Workers

Is There Room for Unions in the New Media World?

The Punks of Publishing

Kick-starting a new literary scene on the lower east side

The Art Libel

Turning an Anti-Fascist Artwork Into an Anti-Jewish Slur

The Age of 'Reason'

Turning an Anti-Fascist Artwork Into an Anti-Jewish Slur

The Desk Set

Strange Things Grow in an Office Culture

Every Single Thing

Strange Things Grow in an Office Culture

Cult Following

A holiday guide to coffee-table books with a jagged edge

Yin-Yang on the Bowery; Good Drinks and Yummy Eats Too

A holiday guide to coffee-table books with a jagged edge

Helvetica

A holiday guide to coffee-table books with a jagged edge

The Grand Delusion

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

STALK THIS WAY

Tales of jealous husbands and dart champs

Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight Anecdotally Strolls Through Designer's Life

Tales of jealous husbands and dart champs

'Verboten Presents Davide Squillace, Illich Mujica & Deepak Sharma'

Tales of jealous husbands and dart champs

BRITTLE SISTER

A third Wainwright bares it at the mic

DM Stith

A third Wainwright bares it at the mic

DARK THEATER

The haunting of P.S.122

HIGHER GROUND

Two artists, one strange mission

Orphaned Land

Two artists, one strange mission

I, TOO, CAN BE WARHOL

Print away, and take away

Interview: John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants On Turning 50, Writing Jingles, The Badassness of Elvis Costello, And The Theory That Most Bands Have Only One Good Album

That's Flansburgh on the right​John Flansburgh stands as the younger, more bespectacled half of They Might Be Giants, a Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston band he has been playing in for more than half his life (Their latest album is Here Comes Science, their fourth children's album and 14th or so stud ... More >>

The B-52s

That's Flansburgh on the right​John Flansburgh stands as the younger, more bespectacled half of They Might Be Giants, a Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston band he has been playing in for more than half his life (Their latest album is Here Comes Science, their fourth children's album and 14th or so stud ... More >>

Marissa Paternoster's Bold Awakening

The Screaming Females screamer cryptically emotes on Holy Hell

Anamanaguchi Post Das Racist Remix, Promise To Release the Scott Pilgrim Video Game Soundtrack Somehow

Ryder RippsPoor ladyOne detail that didn't emerge during our long conversation with Brooklyn chiptune composers Anamanaguchi, regarding their wish-fulfilling project of scoring the Scott Pilgrim videogame, was whether or not the band planned to release the tracks separately. So we wrote guitarist/NE ... More >>

COME OUT AND PLAY

Asia Society brings the "Nara phenomenon" to NYC

Even the New Gap Logo Hates the New MySpace Logo

​Amid an internet uproar about how bad the new Gap logo is -- and just after iTunes faced similar scrutiny for the updated iTunes 10 icon -- MySpace is getting in on the Any Press is Good Press action by releasing their own terrible new logo. TechCrunch describes it literally as "the word 'my' ... More >>

Avi Buffalo

​Amid an internet uproar about how bad the new Gap logo is -- and just after iTunes faced similar scrutiny for the updated iTunes 10 icon -- MySpace is getting in on the Any Press is Good Press action by releasing their own terrible new logo. TechCrunch describes it literally as "the word 'my' ... More >>

PRINTED MATTER

Jordan Harrison's Futura

Throne of Blood

Jordan Harrison's Futura

A Brief Moment With Patti Smith, 2010 National Book Award Winner

Patti Smith, who did actually smile last night. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.​Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction last night at the Cirpirani Ballroom on Wall Street. It was, to say the least, a surprising moment.

DIY HOLIDAY

You’ll even want to get something for your worst friend

Leftover Crack

You’ll even want to get something for your worst friend

New Starbucks Logo Has Absolutely Nothing to do With Coffee

​It really has been almost 40 years since Starbucks opened its first store, innocuously enough, in Seattle. And given the company's subsequent, unstoppable stampede towards Matrix-like world domination, it seems appropriate that, in celebration of its March birthday, the company is debuting a ... More >>

Don't Screw Over Your Web Designer or This Could Happen to You

​Winona Chiropractic Center in Winona, Minnesota, hired a web designer to create a site with which to advertise their business. Apparently, they didn't follow through with the appropriate payments, so the web designer went back into the site and started recoding. Here's a link to the site. Mak ... More >>

Google Nerds Love April Fool's Day: Font Jokes For Everyone!

​Go to Google and search for "Helvetica," the respectable font. The joke is that the results come up in "Comic Sans," a less respectable font. Get it? This day sucks.

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​Go to Google and search for "Helvetica," the respectable font. The joke is that the results come up in "Comic Sans," a less respectable font. Get it? This day sucks.

Osama Bin Laden Photos Won't Be Released Because White House Knows About Photoshop

​Defense Secretary Robert Gates explained today that photos of Osama Bin Laden's corpse should not be released not only because the actual photos might inflame extremists and act as a propaganda tool for Al Qaeda, but also because of, well, Photoshop. Gates and Hillary Clinton were "worried a ... More >>

DIY BBQ

Say yes to burgers, workshops, and music

There Is Nothing Subliminal in This Headline for Programming the Nation?

Say yes to burgers, workshops, and music

'I Love NY' Made the State $1.83 Million This Year

​"I Love NY," the iconic logo created by Milton Glaser in 1977 (he did the work pro bono, never expecting the campaign to last more than a few months), is now bringing in millions to the state in licensing fees. The state started licensing the logo in '94 and, the Daily News reports, took in " ... More >>

COOL INK

Get a tattoo from David Shrigley

KINGS OF ROCK

Yo! Bum rush the public library.

'Funkmaster Flex's Halloween Spook-tacular'

Yo! Bum rush the public library.

MUSIC MANIA

The holiday wish list just got a little longer

Q&A: Amy Sheridan, The Woman Who Commits Kanye West's Greatest Tweets To Thread

​Now available on Etsy for your gift-giving needs: hand-stitched cloth versions of Kanye West's tweets. The commemorations of West's epic 140-character missives ("Sometimes I get the usage of puns and double en- tundras mixed up. I know sometimes one thing can be both. Rap God issues!!! LOL!!! ... More >>