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Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers. This facet of the project is a request of each invited respondent to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph.

Logos are everywhere. They’re on our screens, stitched onto our clothes, and plastered across cityscapes. But how often do we stop to consider the craft, creativity, and thought that goes into designing these deceptively simple icons and wordmarks? That’s exactly what 1000 Marks, a collection of logos from Pentagram, invites us to do.

November is Native American Heritage Month. This week, many Americans will gather for Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrating the “First Thanksgiving,” a closely-held myth of the pilgrims (colonizers) breaking bread with the Wampanoag people who’d inhabited the land around what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, for over 12,000 years.

Our expanded branding categories for the 2025 PRINT Awards include social media content design. Learn more and submit your work!

Are you a book lover short on shelf space? isolarii makes tiny books with big words—and they’re perfect for a holiday stocking.

We took a pause from our regular book cover coverage in October—which, apparently, was a mistake, as a slew of brilliant jackets sprung forth from the digital ether while we were following other editorial rabbits down holes. So this month we’re playing catchup and spotlighting a medley of great covers unveiled in October and November, beginning with Chris Bentham’s jacket for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Message, which he discusses below.

Each year, RGD asks a different Canadian design agency or studio to tackle the conference identity. In these shorter episodes, host Nicola Hamilton will speak with some of those folks—past DesignThinkers Design Partners. In this episode, Hamilton catches up with Hans Thiessen RGD. Thiessen leads the design team at Rethink —an agency that’s been named

What do you save? Or hold onto even though you know you will need to let it go?

This year has been a mixed bag. On Thanksgiving I usually just reflect comfortably on the past 12 months, since it’s a nostalgic kind of holiday. A time to harvest thoughts—a time to rend, a time to sow. There’s something mystical and mythical about the country’s original inhabitants having a potluck with interloping pilgrims, a short peaceful interlude before the colonizing shit hit the fan.

We often remind our clients that a big part of clear communication comes down to the words you choose. Nonprofits tend to be a little wordy. I admit, in my own writing about the ins and outs of branding nonprofits, I can get a little wordy myself, so I enlisted some help.