The ninth annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival – Noir City – begins tonight at the Castro Theatre, celebrating the restoration and resurging popularity of movies showcasing crime, betrayal,...
Graphic Design
In honor of Penguin Awareness Day today, I present to you 12 diverse works by different artists of the dapper bird. I like how these designers played around with the black-and-white coloring of...
Did you know there’s a Winnie the Pooh Day? Yup, it’s today, and while I don’t begrudge Pooh’s appeal or wisdom, the misguided appropriation of the character – from adults wearing jean jackets...
Had Martin Luther King Jr. not been tragically murdered more than 40 years ago, he would have celebrated his 82nd birthday this past Saturday. King was an inspiration not just to blacks but also...
Crafters make things with their hands, so it makes sense that flyers for craft shows would be creative. This past holiday season, I made it a point to avoid big-box stores and instead shop with...
[caption id="attachment_16070" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Birthday cards via jackhooker.com."][/caption] It seems like only recently I compiled the “Top 10 PsPrint Blogs of 2009.”...
The fruitcake is universally derided as a gift for when you care enough to give the very least. Gummy in texture and cloying in taste, fruitcake is better suited as a doorstop than a dessert....
The weeklong Kwanzaa celebration begins on Sunday, Dec. 26. Since Kwanzaa is a relatively new holiday – just 44 years old – people have probably heard of it but don’t necessarily know what it...
The start of winter always catches me off-guard. It’s been cold for weeks – really, really cold! – yet today is winter solstice: the first day of actual winter. That means graphic designers have...