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2024

  • 17 June, 2024 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Oyow
  • 1 February, 2024 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Richard Borge

2023

  • 1 September, 2023 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Giselle Potter
  • 25 May, 2023 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Jason Holley
  • 25 May, 2023 Play Press: BlackDog and Design is Play Posters Acquired by the Deutsche Plakat Museum, Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 8 May, 2023 Play Press: BlackDog and Design is Play Posters Acquired by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
  • 6 April, 2023 Play Press: “Designer as Protestor” at the Letterform Archive
  • 24 March, 2023 Play Press: “What Would You Say? Activist Graphics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art”
  • 17 March, 2023 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Gary Baseman
  • 1 February, 2023 CCA Design Lecture Series Identity

2022

  • 1 October, 2022 Play Press: 2nd Cyprus Poster Triennial
  • 10 September, 2022 Play Press: “Sláva Ukrayíni” awarded Gold in Graphis’ “Designers for Peace”
  • 15 August, 2022 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Katherine Lam
  • 25 July, 2022 BLKLAB Identity
  • 23 July, 2022 Play Press: “Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest” at the Letterform Archive
  • 20 July, 2022 Play Press: “New! Newer! Newly!” at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
  • 15 June, 2022 “Designers for Peace” International Poster Competition
  • 13 April, 2022 “Adventures in China” Book Design
  • 1 April, 2022 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator David Plunkert
  • 17 February, 2022 Play Press: “Trump 24K Gold-Plated” Poster Acquired by the MAD, Paris
  • 1 January, 2022 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Johanna Goodman

2021

  • 27 October, 2021 Play Press: “White Lies Matter” Posters Acquired by the V&A
  • 1 October, 2021 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Hudson Christie
  • 1 June, 2021 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Sandra Dionisi
  • 4 January, 2021 The Post Identity
  • 1 January, 2021 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Scott Bakal

2020

  • 1 December, 2020 Class 5 Identity
  • 1 October, 2020 Play Press: Type Trends
  • 1 October, 2020 3×3 Magazine Profile of Illustrator Dale Stephanos
  • 20 June, 2020 Play Press: International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition in Croatia
  • 15 June, 2020 “Trump: Lord of the Lies” and “White Lies Matter” Posters on Kickstarter
  • 29 May, 2020 “Elvis Ain’t King”
  • 19 April, 2020 Pacific Pipe Identity
  • 16 February, 2020 Play Press: Setting the Record Straight
  • 8 January, 2020 Play Press: Letterform Archive Charter Member Keepsake

2019

  • 16 November, 2019 Play Press: International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition in Serbia
  • 11 November, 2019 Our New Poster Shop, Paper Sirens
  • 7 November, 2019 Play Press: The “Design of Dissent” Poster Exhibition in Mexico
  • 15 October, 2019 Play Press: “Gombrowicz” (FOX)
  • 15 October, 2019 Play Press: “Gombrowicz” (WANG)
  • 14 August, 2019 Play Press: International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition in Croatia
  • 24 June, 2019 Play Press: “Tolerance” Catalog by Zayed University, Abu Dhabi
  • 4 June, 2019 Play Press: International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition in Hungary
  • 13 May, 2019 Play Press: International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition in United Arab Emirates
  • 8 May, 2019 Play Press: El Pípila Wins a 2019 James Beard Award
  • 19 April, 2019 The Oaks Identity
  • 27 March, 2019 Play Press: El Pípila Nominated for James Beard Award
  • 20 March, 2019 Play Press: International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition in Slovenia
  • 31 January, 2019 El Pípila Branding and Environmental Graphics
  • 6 January, 2019 Play Press: Fox and Wang Off Duty
  • 2 January, 2019 Play Press: Communication Arts 2019 Typography Annual

2018

  • 5 November, 2018 Play Press: Fox and Wang interviewed by the Letterform Archive
  • 19 October, 2018 Play Press: The “Design of Dissent” Poster Exhibition in Romania
  • 26 September, 2018 Great Western Power Co. Identity
  • 25 August, 2018 Play Press: International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition in Ukraine
  • 17 July, 2018 Play Press: Fox Interviewed in The Drum
  • 14 May, 2018 International “Tolerance” Poster Exhibition
  • 9 May, 2018 El Pípila Identity
  • 20 April, 2018 Play Press: “Protest! Resistance Posters” exhibition, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
  • 14 April, 2018 Helix Identity
  • 1 April, 2018 Play Press: Anson Mills in Korea’s Design Magazine
  • 28 March, 2018 Play Press: “Hope to Nope” exhibition, Design Museum, London
  • 14 February, 2018 Play Press: Works on Paper Acquired by the Letterform Archive, Part 2
  • 18 January, 2018 Play Press: TDC Typography 38, Judges Choice

2017

  • 14 November, 2017 CCA Angie Wang and Mark Fox Graphic Design Scholarship
  • 16 October, 2017 Play Press: Format Magazine
  • 18 September, 2017 Play Press: “We the People” poster exhibition, The Cooper Union, NYC
  • 7 September, 2017 Play Press: The Design of Dissent
  • 30 August, 2017 Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing
  • 10 April, 2017 Trump (Moloch) and the San Francisco March for Science
  • 6 March, 2017 Play at Frog, 2.28.2017
  • 24 February, 2017 Play Press: Trump 24K Gold-Plated Acquired by Two European Museums
  • 10 February, 2017 Play Press: Co.Design
  • 10 February, 2017 Why Symbols Matter
  • 7 February, 2017 Play Press: Typography 38
  • 1 February, 2017 CCA Angie Wang and Mark Fox Graphic Design Scholarship
  • 31 January, 2017 Play Press: Crave
  • 31 January, 2017 Unlock the Mysteries of Life with Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing
  • 4 January, 2017 Play Press: Communication Arts 2017 Typography Annual
  • 2 January, 2017 Play Press: Graphis Design Annual 2017

2016

  • 28 November, 2016 Symbols: A Lecture and Book Party at CCA, 11.21.2016
  • 15 November, 2016 Play Press: Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing Now in Print
  • 11 November, 2016 Play Press: Trump 24K Gold-Plated Acquired by Three European Museums
  • 4 November, 2016 Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing
  • 31 October, 2016 Play Press: Co.Design
  • 22 September, 2016 Play Press: Our New Book!
  • 12 September, 2016 Trump 24K Gold-Plated
  • 29 August, 2016 Play Press: Communication Arts 2016 Design Annual
  • 1 August, 2016 Touchstone Climbing Identity
  • 25 July, 2016 BlackDog: Seven Woes (or why work is hell)
  • 11 July, 2016 Berkeley Ironworks Identity
  • 6 June, 2016 Touchstone Brewing Co. Identity
  • 16 May, 2016 Extole Drink Coasters
  • 7 March, 2016 Sacramento Pipeworks / Pintworks Identities

2015

  • 14 December, 2015 Extole Corporate Office Lobby
  • 30 November, 2015 Fox/BlackDog Acquired by LACMA, Part 2
  • 23 November, 2015 Play Acquired by LACMA
  • 17 August, 2015 Farmhouse Modern Wordmark
  • 10 August, 2015 Farmhouse Modern Monogram
  • 8 June, 2015 Play Press: Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer
  • 4 May, 2015 Play Press: Communication Arts
  • 13 April, 2015 Hollywood Boulders Identity
  • 9 March, 2015 Fox/BlackDog Acquired by LACMA
  • 9 February, 2015 Cliffs of Id Identity
  • 19 January, 2015 Judd Foundation, 101 Spring Street
  • 12 January, 2015 Wang Judges Austin ADDYs

2014

  • 15 December, 2014 Odile Redon’s The Birth of Venus
  • 24 November, 2014 Arcsine Identity
  • 27 October, 2014 Mission Cliffs Applications
  • 15 September, 2014 Mission Cliffs Monogram
  • 8 September, 2014 Fox at the Denver Art Museum
  • 18 August, 2014 Design is Play Archive
  • 4 August, 2014 Design is Play Morphs!
  • 14 July, 2014 Play Press: Graphis Design Annual 2015
  • 16 June, 2014 Wang at Communication Arts
  • 21 April, 2014 Play Press: Design School Wisdom
  • 14 April, 2014 René Knip at CCA, 4.10.2014
  • 24 March, 2014 Ray Bradbury, Jaron Lanier, and “The Digital Flattening of Expression”
  • 10 March, 2014 Extole Identity, Website, and Collateral
  • 3 March, 2014 AIGA 100 Years of Design: 1914–2014
  • 10 February, 2014 Play at Play: Happy Chinese New Year!
  • 27 January, 2014 CREDO Mobile Iconography
  • 20 January, 2014 Play Press: Animal Logos

2013

  • 9 September, 2013 CCA Graphic Design Program Avatar
  • 22 July, 2013 Play Press: Design Firms Open for Business
  • 1 July, 2013 In Memorium: Irving Oaklander, 1924–2012
  • 24 June, 2013 John Pappas at Play
  • 10 June, 2013 Play Press: Design: Portfolio
  • 20 May, 2013 Play Press: Graphis Design Annual 2013
  • 8 April, 2013 Beware of Dog: Embarko, Twenty-Four Years Later
  • 1 April, 2013 Cate and Lukas at Play: Puffoglyphs
  • 25 March, 2013 Play Press: New Modernist Type
  • 11 March, 2013 Angie at Play
  • 4 March, 2013 Design School Wisdom
  • 14 February, 2013 Play at Play: Happy Valentine’s Day!
  • 4 February, 2013 Play Press: Typography 33
  • 21 January, 2013 Site Updates
  • 7 January, 2013 Play Press: Communication Arts 2013 Typography Annual

2012

  • 11 December, 2012 Play Press: University of California monogram
  • 12 November, 2012 Volume at Play
  • 29 October, 2012 Dogpatch Boulders Identity
  • 30 July, 2012 Play Press: Graphis New Talent 2012
  • 28 May, 2012 Yosei Shibata and Shoshi Kanokohata at Play
  • 23 April, 2012 March Pantry Identity and Packaging System Application
  • 5 March, 2012 Play Press: Graphis Logo 8
  • 6 February, 2012 Bob Aufuldish at Play No. 2
  • 9 January, 2012 Play Press: Communication Arts 2012 Typography Annual

2011

  • 26 December, 2011 Happy Holidays from our Junior Design Team!
  • 5 December, 2011 Play Press: 2011 Print Regional Design Annual
  • 21 November, 2011 Studio Climbing Identity
  • 14 November, 2011 Play at RE:DESIGN / Creative Directors, 11.07.2011 (part 2)
  • 7 November, 2011 March Trunk Show Invitation
  • 24 October, 2011 Play Press: Typography Sketchbooks
  • 26 September, 2011 Play at RE:DESIGN / Creative Directors, 11.07.2011
  • 19 September, 2011 March Pantry Identity and Packaging System
  • 5 September, 2011 Play Press: Communication Arts 2011 Design Annual
  • 29 August, 2011 New Work: Cengage Learning Book Covers
  • 30 May, 2011 CCA Craft Forward Symposium 2011 Applications
  • 28 March, 2011 Greg Clarke at Play
  • 21 March, 2011 MetalMark Naming and Identity
  • 14 March, 2011 Play at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
  • 21 February, 2011 20 Years Ago: Bomb the Pentagon
  • 14 February, 2011 Emily McVarish at Play
  • 7 February, 2011 dress code at Play
  • 2 February, 2011 Play at Play
  • 31 January, 2011 Fox on Designers and Books
  • 24 January, 2011 Minniti McMurtrie Identity
  • 5 January, 2011 CCA Craft Forward Symposium 2011 Identity
  • 3 January, 2011 Play Press: Communication Arts 2011 Typography Annual
  • 1 January, 2011 Man Ee Wong: As It Is Written: Project 304,805

2010

  • 27 December, 2010 Play Press: 50 Books/50 Covers of 2010
  • 20 December, 2010 Happy Holidays from our Junior Design Team!
  • 8 November, 2010 Advice for Designers, Extrapolated
  • 1 November, 2010 Michael Schwab at Play
  • 25 October, 2010 Dennis Crowe at Play
  • 18 October, 2010 Steve Lyons at Play
  • 11 October, 2010 Play at Carbon Five, 10.06.2010
  • 7 September, 2010 Vivienne Flesher at Play
  • 6 September, 2010 Ward Schumaker at Play
  • 3 September, 2010 Bob Aufuldish at Play
  • 23 August, 2010 Intel AppUp Center Identity
  • 9 August, 2010 Cengage Learning Book Cover
  • 19 July, 2010 Anson Mills Identity and Packaging System
  • 12 July, 2010 CCA Steve Reoutt Memorial Scholarship
  • 14 June, 2010 Fox at Landor, 06.03.2010
  • 3 June, 2010 Wired Magazine iPad App Iconography
  • 8 February, 2010 Play Press: TDC Typography 30
  • 18 January, 2010 Play Press: Typography Essentials; No Rules! Logos
  • 11 January, 2010 Play Press: TDC Typography 29; PAGE Magazine
  • 4 January, 2010 Play Press: 2008 Print Regional Design Annual

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