PDC Mercantile

The easy and fun way to support the PDC.

Our store is open! The featured items are Mark Wise's Ride A Bike cards and sets. This limited-run edtion was hand-printed at Amos Kennedy's letterpress shop in rural Alabama. You can't get them anywhere but here, so pick some up for yourself or surprise someone you know today. The PDC Mercantile/ Fine Supplies & Sundry Goods.

PDC/PDX

If you like us in Mississippi, you'll love us in Portland.

The Public Design Center is pleased to announce that we will be relocating to Portland, Oregon. Kate will be a new faculty member at Portland State University and we can't imagine a better fit for the PDC than Portland. We'll move this summer. Wanna move some boxes? Stay tuned for more.

The Center for Vernacular Typography

Document, catalog, research, and share.

A Center within a Center? Heck yeah. Right now, the Center for Vernacular Typography is a cardbox box and camera but we're just getting started. Find out more about the CVT and how you can be a contributor.

New Meg Hunt Site

Illustrator Meg Hunt has launched a brand new site today and it looks sharp. I defy you to browse her work and not fall in love with it.
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Moo Business Cards

Moo announced that they'll be offering full-size 3.5" x 2" business cards in the very near future. This is good news people, good news.
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Neave TV

This is really well done: Neave Televsion...Telle Without Context
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Fully Booked

Where does the uber-efficient internet era leave the "lowly" book? Has the web changed the way you feel about reading a book? Why hasn't it replaced the simple pleasure of reading in your favorite chair? Or has it? In their recent publication Fully Booked, Die Gestalten has captured examples of book design in 2008 that are pushing the boundaries of the printed-book.
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Center for Cartoon Studies

We really like The Center for Cartoon Studies. They're located in Vermont and offer a two-year course of study that centers on the creation and dissemination of comics, graphic novels and other manifestations of the visual narrative. The CCS faculty and Advisory Board are supremely impressive and they offer an MFA. How cool is that?
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