Tonight in Minneapolis the world renowned Walker Art Center will open Graphic Design: Now in Production a joint exhibition with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. Curated by design luminaries Andrew Blauvart and Ellen Lupton with help of specialists like Jeremy Leslie and Armin Vit.

Jeremy describes the exhibition well, ”The exhibition is a large-scale (and rare) overview of the last ten years of graphic design. As the title suggests, it focuses on the way graphic designers have broadened their practice beyond client work to include self-production and self-publishing. ”

We’re privileged to be featured in the exhibition with other brilliant things such as Chris Doyle’s identity guidelines, Christophe Szpajdel The Dark Lord of Logos (who coincidently designed the RIG logo) some Daniel Eatock goodness and Peter Buchanon-Smith’s Best Made Felling Axes among many others.

The exhibition is at the Walker Arts Centre until 22 January and then will be at the Cooper-Hewitt 2 June until 3 September.

I’m off to ask the CEO for a plane ticket.

There’s a very useful article in the September issue of Black and White Photography magazine on different ways of creating a newspaper using black and white photographs. Tim Daly explains how to prepare images in different ways for different results. It’s worth getting a copy if you’re interested in printing a photo paper.

There are also some lovely examples of black and white photography in this digitally-printed newspaper from Escalier C, a Parisian graphic design and art direction workshop. More photos on their website.

Newspaper Club gets a succunct and fair review in the latest Stuff Magazine. Their short feature sums up the whole operation of Newspaper Club much better than we do ourselves. “It’s a little clunky to use, but the fact it’s free and allows an untrained user to design a paper is seriously impressive.”

A little clunky but seriously impressive, in football terminology we’d have taken that before the kick off.

It also has some nice mentions for Preston Is My Paris and Structo, who were kind enough to scan this article in.

We spoke at the Guardian’s SXSW Hack Day at the weekend. That’s typical of us, working the weekend like all hungry young start ups.

We didn’t do any hacking, we just showed some examples of the different things you can do with newsprint. Jemima has written a nice article about it here. I suspect Sales & Marketing’s killer phrase “the aesthetic is rather like Geocities – it doesn’t matter how it looks, it’s just very pleasing to have made [it]“. Will fly round the interent and deliver hundreds of sales.

Talking of sales, the Guardian were kind enough to use our award winning service to make a newspaper themselves which was handed out to all the hackers.

The picture above was taken by Aleks Krotoski of the chaps from Spotify, a music start up. They spoke just after us. They didn’t mention Geocities.

If you’d like to know which hacks won pop on over to the Guardian’s SXSW coverage. Thanks to all who came along to listen.

We’ve had a lot of enquiries because of it (hooray!) and are printing and quoting like mad. If you’ve asked for an invitation we’ll get one out to you as soon as we can - within 48 hours or so. If you’ve been waiting any longer than that please check your spam folder as chances are it’s in there.

Tuesdays are Print Deadline Days (2pm to be precise) so hurry, hurry if you want to make this week’s run. If you don’t, don’t worry – there’ll be another one along next week.

So it’s a well deserved weekend, and we’re all enjoying some downtime. I’ve been careering up and down the Norfolk Broads, trying to dodge motor boats in our little canoe. It’s harder than I remember to keep it in a straight line, but we had an excellent, albeit soggy time.

Just before 5pm I dragged myself out of the water, grabbed a polystyrene cup of tea and sat down to listen to BBC Radio 4′s Saturday PM.

It was a short piece about changing face of newspaper printing, the romance and beauty of the medium, and where it might be heading. Newspaper Club is featured, along with the word “flong“.

You can listen to it with the player below, or download the MP3 directly.

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