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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

10 Things… Generating Ideas

Gregory Manchess

Everyone at one point or another has been worried about getting a good idea. No creative person is immune to the work of generating ideas. No one.

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Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly *Update*

Arnie Fenner

December 6, 2021 -   Remember awhile back when I mentioned that Cathy and I were planning to do a quarterly Spectrum bookazine? Guess what: the first volume is done. And what do I mean by "bookazine?" Well, I guess it's something of a marriage of design, editorial, and graphics in a format that reads like a magazine but sits happily with the books on your shelf. It's not exactly a new concept: if you hop in the way-back machine and take a look at Herb Lubalin's Avant Garde or at Ralph Ginzburg's hardcover Eros (which was also designed by Lubalin) you'll see just how neat the idea is. So while we've been figuring out all the minutia that goes into reorganizing the Spectrum competition and annual (and, lemme tell you, there are some cool discussions going on...if we…

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