Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects

Get crafty with a new book by San Francisco's leading lady of printmaking

Founder of San Francisco, CA design studio Yellow Owl Workshop, crafty woman Christine Schmidt knows her print-making. Her new book, “Print Workshop: Hand Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects,” embodies her icon status as a hand-printer while offering artistic recipes for other creative-minded souls. The book, billed as a tool for “low budgets and high expectations,” offers a variety of printing guides that are a …

Gifts Inspired by Amy Sedaris

Our selection of imaginative gifts in homage to one of our favorite comediennes

In celebration of the resourceful comedian’s upcoming appearance at the Cool Hunting pop up Monday, 20 December 2011—where she will sign her book “Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People” from 7-9pm—we’ve selected items from our Gift Guide that channel her sensibility. If none of these items get your goat, a flip through “Simple Times” will provide you with plenty of innovative ideas on how to …

This is NPR: The First Forty Years

An interview with National Public Radio correspondent Ari Shapiro about the station's new book

by Noah Armstrong Both beautifully designed and infinitely interesting, “This is NPR: The First Forty Years” chronicles the first 40 years of National Public Radio. Correspondents who have been—and many who still are—in the thick of it all, including Cokie Roberts, Susan Stamberg, Noah Adams, John Ydstie, Renée Montagne, Ari Shapiro and David Folkeflick, each cover one chapter of the book. Going decade by decade, …