Pinball’s Graphic Culture Catalog
June 26, 2008
Three new gorgeous Tenth & Grant pocket notebooks are now available for purchase in the Pinball Catalog.
Featuring artwork from Ian Lynam (Pinwheels in Hot Pink & Orange) Tara Hogan (Fish in Blue on Kraft paper) and PatternPeople (Paisley in Neon Green, Plum & Chocolate Grey), all three styles include 32 pages of lined paper and are saddle stitched and corner rounded to slip nicely into your back pocket.
June 24, 2008
Here are some beautiful new Business Cards fresh from the press.
Heather Smith Fertility Acupuncturist’s Business card: 1/0 White on Chipboard. Quite Elegant.
Self-Titled Business Card: 1/0 Environment 120# Cover, Black on White. Classic.
Jori Zan’s Business Card 1/0 Silver on Chipboard. Sharp looking for sure.
June 23, 2008
For those of you with a weekday to spare and a keen interest in statistics, information architecture, tables, graphs, topography, perception, and the endless ways in which graphic information can be rendered beautiful, be sure to enroll in Edward Tufte’s 1-day course in “Presenting Data and Information,” scheduled for July 16th at the Portland Art Museum. The $380 price tag may make a dent in your pocketbook, but you’ll walk away with all four of Tufte’s self-published and award-winning books on information design, and an afternoon well-spent with the “Galileo of graphics” himself. Click here to read more about it and sign up!
June 20, 2008
Google image search “Chipboard Paper Manufacturing” and you will find that our Tenth & Grant notebooks made it in the Top Ten! This is most likely due to our fantastic relationship with chipboard. Coming in at #9 is Sonoco, our chipboard mill. Congrats Sonoco. Chipboard is 100% post-consumer waste, recycled from cardboard boxes and grocery bags, and has a lovely kraft color. It’s also super economical!
Periscope Notebook by Austin Whipple. Chipboard cover: #10 in Google image search
Candy Cane Notebook by Austin Whipple. Chipboard cover: #11 in Google image search
Viva la chipboard!
June 19, 2008
We are proud to be of service to art organizations and architecture firms in need of anything from business cards to annual reports. Recent favorites include full-color postcards for LA-based architecture & research firm, P-AR:
And invitations & matching envelopes for the Bronx Museum of the Arts for an upcoming exhibition featuring street life and its influence on art in the 20th century. Designed by Anne Edgar Associates:
Here’s a palette of the past twenty ink colors used on press at Pinball. Vibrant hues of purple, green and red are paired with pastel cousins, and neutral blacks and browns round out the scheme. Quite fetching, don’t you think?
For more inspiration, check out colourlovers.com, a Portland-based (and Pinball print client!) website for exploring color trends and creating color conversations. They were recently included in Time’s 50 best websites of 2008.
June 18, 2008
Death Metal Buckle Company’s stunning notecard. Metallic glitz, killer font, unique size…these guys are a gem! Death Metal Buckle Company is a new belt buckle line by Zach Johnson, the art director & cofounder of Tank Theory and also the winner of the Power of Pens Apparel Award for 2007. Nice work!
Rounded Corner = Style. Four projects this week feature corner rounding, a classy touch to enhance any business card or postcard!
June 17, 2008
We recently had the pleasure of printing these dapper “True Confessions” chapbooks for legendary balladeer and musical iconoclast Tom Waits. Designed by X-Ray Book Company’s Johnny Brewton—also known for his design of Waits’ Orphans 3-CD box set as well as publishing projects for Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Billy Childish—these 20-page + cover pocket-sized booklets feature Tom Waits in conversation with none other them himself, in a charming self-interview that asks of Waits everything from “What are some unusual things that have been left behind in a cloakroom?” to “What’s wrong with the world?”.
Flaunting sturdy chipboard covers and French Dur-o-tone Newsprint interiors, the booklets were printed in an edition of 5,000 copies and will be available at venues around the globe as part of Waits’ upcoming Glitter and Doom Tour. Check out this site for tour dates!
June 16, 2008
We are super excited that the Public Design Center, currently stationed in Starkville, MS, is planning a move to Portland in the very near future. PDC co-founders Kate Bingaman-Burt of Obsessive Consumption notoriety and her husband Clifton Burt are set to move this summer, as Kate gears up for a teaching position in the graphic design program at PSU.
From the PDC website:
“The PDC is a graphic design resource center. Our work includes print design and web development. To that end, we engage in capacity-building, research, classification, and exhibition.”
In the past, the PDC has also offered design workshops at the jaw-dropping price of $15/session. Learning about baselines and bezier curves has never been so affordable!
Be sure to check out their Flickr page for photos of their beautiful work space.
June 13, 2008
Its time for bright colors!
New American Art Union’s postcard for Jacqueline Ehlis, a fabulous local Portland Artist.
Buchanan, Angeli, Altschul & Sullivan’s new Business Stationery System. Bringing you Legal Advice for Employment law.
