Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Maurice Sendak sniffing Sharpies, flying cars, antigravity balls and more in our look at the web this week

1. Maurice Sendak Book lovers the world over mourned the passing of Maurice Sendak, author of such childhood classics as “Where the Wild Things Are” and “In the Night Kitchen.” Remembering him, we’ve been looking back to a particularly memorable and hilarious interview with Stephen Colbert, in which the two discuss everything from e-books to Sharpie-sniffing. 2. Redesigning Dickens In celebration of the Victorian novelist’s …

AIGA/NY Anniversary Posters

Thirty designers pay homage to three decades of inspiration

2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the nation’s premier professional design organization. In honor of the celebration, AIGA/NY reached out to 30 NYC design stars to each create a poster for the festivities based on the following brief: “AIGA, New York City, and/or the number 30: capturing your personal experience with the AIGA’s …

Antonín Hepnar

Communist-era woodturning from a master Czech craftsman

by Adam Štěch American artists like J. B. Blunk, Wendell Castle and Jack Rogers Hopkins are established heavyweights in the world of design and certainly represent the “haute couture” style of woodworking, but Czech master craftsman and turner Antonín Hepnar continues to work in relative anonymity behind the former Iron Curtain from his studio in the small village of Čakovičky near Prague. Working in the …