CQ 30-31 to the Printer

Our double issue CQ 30 + 31 is off to the printer. The cover photo is by Geoff Ledford.
Featuring winners from CQ competitions 30 and 31, this issue also takes a look at:
Fine Art: Philip Taafe
Graphic Design: Ben Casey, The Chase
Illustration: Jens Bonnke
Photography: Daniel Beltrá

CQ30 + 31 winners and runner-ups and listed on the online Gallery. You can purchase the issue online.

CQ33 Call for Entries - Special Discounts

We’ve always been one of the most
affordable shows around.
Professional or Student.
Entry fees that won’t break the bank.
Now we're giving students and
recent graduates an extra break on
their entry fees.
A single entry is now $10.
A series, $20—up to five images.
Exposure in print and online that’s worth
it’s weight in gold.
Save up your nickels and dimes and enter
your red-hot entries by July 26th.

Call for Entries No. 33
Deadline: July 26, 2013

Enter here.

Support the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum

The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum has kicked off their next stage of fundraising to raise $200,000 for the purchase and improvements to their new building. The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum is home to an amazing array of advertising cuts from the 1930s through the 1970s, and all of the equipment necessary to make wood type and print with it, as well as equipment used in the production of hot metal type, tools of the craft and rare type specimen catalogs.
Want to help out? They are accepting monetary donations as well as collection donations. Donate now

Pancake Maestro

Your weekend routine will seem a bit more drab once you see this these amazing pancakes.

Found via Quipsologies

1922 Film Test in Color

This early screen test of Kodachrome film was taken in 1922. Bewitching.
Found via Slate's The Vault

Alexander Isley at the TDC

The Type Director's Club has a new exhibition “Working with Words” of the design work of Alexander Isley.
Isley has designed books, magazines, exhibits, memorial inscriptions, store interiors, packaging, signage, watches, dinner trays, posters, shopping bags, catalogs, restaurants, album covers (remember those?), videos, web sites, billboards, and truck fleets. Most of these incorporate the use of typography in inventive ways. His first real design job was at M&Co. He then went on to art direct Spy magazine. Alex founded his company in 1988.
Found via the TDC.org

Self-Promotion Workshop

A one-day intensive workshop devoted to helping freelancers market themselves more effectively. 

Improve how you develop your prospect list.
Discover who your best prospects are.
Create more effective email blasts.
Develop your individual selling strategy.

Saturday, February 2, Brooklyn, New York 

Learn More