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The Daily Heller: David Szauder’s Digital Nostalgia for What Never Was

Szauder seemed to burst onto the media landscape with enigmatic animated fantasies that tickle the eye and capture the imagination.

Read the full feature: https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-david-szauders-digital-nostalgia-for-the-never-was/

Maria Popova’s An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days transforms vintage ornithological texts and illustrations into poetic meditations on wonder, language, creativity, and the natural world, offering readers a lyrical guide to meaning and self-reflection in uncertain times.

Read the full feature: https://www.printmag.com/illustration-design/maria-popovas-an-almanac-of-birds-100-divinations-for-uncertain-days-is-a-field-guide-for-the-heart/

What Matters to Robert Froedge

Robert Froedge is EVP of Creative at Lewis Communications, a three-office independent agency with locations in Mobile, Birmingham, and Nashville. A lifelong brand designer and art director, he has spent more than three decades blending strategy and craft to build identities and campaigns that endure.

https://www.printmag.com/uncategorized/what-matters-to-robert-froedge/

Each month, Dr. Dori Tunstall contributes a compact meditation for PRINT: 100 words and a single image that together open up larger conversations around design, culture, power, and possibility. A pioneering design anthropologist and the author of Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook, Dr. Dori approaches design not as styling, but as a lived social practice shaped by history, identity, and community. Her work challenges institutions to think beyond inclusion toward genuine cultural transformation—while still leaving room for curiosity, humanity, and joy.

Cut No. 4, is focused on Salvador Gutierrez, USC Roski MFA Design Class of 2026, and his thesis project, Unconventional.

Read the full feaure: https://www.printmag.com/dr-dori-cut/dr-doris-cut-100-words-no-filler-4/

New Redesign Alert

This time by Turner Duckworth for Bob's Red Mill, an almost 50-year-old heritage brand. The redesign signals a more modern, bolder take while still retaining some of the elements the brand is known for.

How are we feeling about the redesign?

Read the full feature on PRINT: https://www.printmag.com/packaging-design/bobs-red-mill-embraces-a-bold-new-identity/

Join us at our next PRINT Book Club THIS THURSDAY May 21st at 4 PM ET. Dora Drimalas will join Steven Heller and Debbie Millman to discuss her book, Hybrid: Curiosity in All Things.

Dora Drimalas leads the multidisciplinary design studio, Hybrid Design Inc. where they explore the discipline of putting curiosity into practice. As a studio, they are driven by the conviction that seemingly disparate and disconnected interests are not only assets to the design process but are essential to the creation of fulfilling work. Through real project examples over the last 20+ years in business, and insightful essays, they chart how a broad and eclectic collection of interests, hobbies, and experiences—curiosities—translates into powerful design work across any subject or discipline. Hybrid will showcase work across 640 pages from clients such as Nike, Pinterest, The North Face, Sonos, Hypebeast, Levi’s, YouTube, and many more. The book comes in two color ways—randomly assigned when ordered—in the spirit of curiosity and serendipity.

Register to attend live: https://lnkd.in/gr5Da8F3

Type Tuesday 💅

Tuig, the delightfully bendy variable typeface from Guillaume Berry’s Marmite Defontes, proves that a little typographic weirdness can feel far more alive than perfection.

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https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/bent-out-of-shape-in-a-good-way/

The Daily Heller: The Serene Surrealism of Guy Billout

It’s been too many years since I’ve seen new work by Guy Billout. He was a foundational part of late ’70s–’90s conceptual illustration—his precise rendering and subtle humor, his use of strict geometry, flat gradients, and a clear line style created a universe where disaster doesn’t strike with a bang, but with a perfectly rendered, ironic silence. He did not disappear, but the lack of viable outlets for illustration, along with the increasing number of new illustrators entering the fray, took a toll.

Read the full feature: https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-the-serene-surrealism-of-guy-billout/

Todd Radom Turns His Life-Long Passion for Baseball into New Book, ‘The Ballpark and Beyond’

The graphic designer, sports branding expert, podcaster, writer, and baseball historian shares his new illustrated love letter to baseball.

Read the full article: https://www.printmag.com/publication-design/todd-radom-the-ballpark-and-beyond/