Print Connections Archive
Touch and Glow
That a substance believed to be so beneficial could ultimately turn out to be the exact opposite is an old story that occurs time and again throughout history.
Bugged By Technology
When Franz met Felice; or what you always wanted to know about Kafka, travel guides, and Parlographs
Jive Talkin’
Jive from Caxton to Calloway; or Dictionaries, standard English and organic growth and change in language. OMG.
Pass the Bubbly
Everything you wanted to know about Bubble Wrap Awareness Day
Of Fonts and Fears
Helvetica, William Tell, Rossini, and paraskevidekatriaphobia
Because It’s There
Decimal points, the Great Trigonometrical Survey, and Mount Everest
My Funny Valentine
Five hundred years before Spotify — or the compact disc or even the vinyl record — songs were distributed on paper. That is, the lyrics to a song would be printed and distributed as “broadside ballads.”
29 Days a-Leaping
Great practical jokers; the picture postcard craze of 1908
Fan Club
Emoji and the secret language of fans
The Sting
Origami, entomology, and papermaking
Code Comfort
Today, everyone talks about the importance of “multichannel marketing,” but as far as I know, in only one case has Morse code actually been one of those channels.
A Turkish Get-Up
Secreting people inside machines is actually a not unknown ploy; conversely, the idea of making machines look and behave like people goes back millennia.
Christmas Wrapping
The history of postcards and wrapping paper
Let’s Drink to Paper!
Papermaking
When It Rains It Pours
The first cellphone call ever made
A Serpentine Tale with a Photo Finish
On snakes and color theory
Poll Position
The role of new communications technologies in elections
Olympic Printing?
Printmaking actually was, at one time, part of the Olympics.
Heavens to Betsy!
Colors of the American flag
It’s About Time
Time checking and Samuel Pepys's iWatch
A Whole New Ballgame
Cracker Jack autostereoscopic imaging