Little Magazines

Sometimes you discover beautiful little oddities in random used bookstores or seconhand shops. That's not what happened here, but I'd love to find some of these little magazines somewhere!

Clip/Stamp/Fold has a cool little timeline (1960's-1970's) of these little architecture magazines that seem to recall the short lived publications of the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, and later the dadaists. 

This description from the site may be useful for all periods mentioned:

Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals. The terms “little” and “magazine” are not taken at face value. In addition to short-lived radical magazines, Clip/Stamp/Fold includes pamphlets and building instruction manuals along with professional magazines that experienced “moments of littleness,” influenced by the graphics and intellectual concerns of their self-published contemporaries.

Check it out.

CSU's Poster Exhibit in this month's Communication Arts

If you've never made it to the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition over at CSU you are missing out on a wonderful experience. Some of the best designers in the world make it, including our own local Eric Boelts from Brain Bolts (Darfur Poster, which incidently was also featured in ADCD's 07 Award Show). Check out Communication Arts' Design Feature this month to see more.

The 15th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition

Paper Fashion Show Call For Entries 2008!!

If you'd like to be involved in a high-fashion runway show that's creative, fun, and benefits the creative community, now is your chance.

Deadline to sign up: February 1, 2008.

ADCD is now signing up teams to design paper fashion creations to be modeled in our runway show on March 20th, 2008.

What is the ADCD Paper Fashion Show? First Check this out:



Teams sign up to design fashions created from paper that's donated by our sponsors (who happen to produce the best & widest variety of papers available today). These fashions are then showcased at our grand runway show, and voted on by our panel of judges. The fashions are then put up for auction to raise money for the charitable recipient benefiting from the event.

Designs may be for men or women. Your designs will be showcased by runway models—you may provide your own model, or we can provide talent for you. We will also provide hair and make-up services for models if needed. The event will feature a social where attendees can mix & mingle; the highlight of the event being the runway show featuring local entertainment and your paper fashions being modeled and voted on by our panel of judges.

You may have as many people on your team as you wish - and there is no cost for participating. However, a maximum of 4 people per team will receive free admission, any additional team members receive the discounted ticket price of $10 (standard tickets are $25).

Final teams will be assigned the first week in February, so if you are interested in participating and creating a paper fashion, please email us at paperfashion@adcd.com ASAP, and we'll get in touch with you to follow up and provide more details and direction.