''Print'' is an American design and culture website that began as ''Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts'', in 1940, and continued publishing a physical edition through the end of 2017 as ''Print''. As a printed publication, ''Print'' was a general-interest magazine, written by cultural reporters and critics who looked at design in its social, political, and historical contexts, from newspapers and book covers to Web-based motion graphics, from corporate branding to indie-rock posters. During its run, ''Print'' won five

National Magazine Awards The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Or ...

and a number of Folio: Eddies, including Best Full Issue in its final year. ''Print'' ceased publication in 2017, with a promise to focus the brand on "a robust and thriving online community." Its publisher,

F+W Media F+W, (formerly F+W Publications and F+W Media), was a media and e-commerce company headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1913, F+W published magazines, books, digital products (including e-books and e-magazines), produced online video, offe ...

, declared bankruptcy in 2019, and a group of independent partners subsequently purchased PRINT from the company that arose out of F+W, Peak Media Properties.

Founding

The journal was founded by

William Edwin Rudge William Edwin Rudge is the name of a grandfather, father and son, all of whom worked in the printing business. The first William Edwin Rudge (1835–1910) operated a small commercial print shop in New York City. William Edwin Rudge II (1876–1931 ...

to demonstrate “the far reaching importance of the graphic arts” including art prints, commercial printing, wallpaper, etc. Contents were eclectic covering typography, book making, book printing, fine prints as well as the trade journal aspects of printing candy bar wrappers.Editor’s forward Vol 1, #1 (Jun 1940) Initially the publication included original prints such as the frontispiece for Vol 1, #1 (Jun 1940) a two color woodcut by Hans Alexander Mueller and Vol 1, #3 (December 1940) a black and white wood engraving by

Paul Landacre Paul Hambleton Landacre (July 9, 1893, Columbus, Ohio - June 3, 1963, Los Angeles, California) was an active participant in the cultural flowering of interwar Los Angeles, described by Jake Zeitlin as a "small Renaissance, Southern California styl ...

. By Volume 8 (1953) the focus of the periodical had shifted to a trade journal.

Name changes

* Vol 1, #1 (Jun 1940) ''Print: A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts'' * Vol 3, #2 (Summer 1942) combined with ''The Printing Art. An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of the Art of Printing and of the Allied Arts'' but continued under ''Print: A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts''

Until

* Vol 7, #1 (Aug 1951) ''Print'': combining: ''Print, A Quarterly Journal of Graphic Arts'', Vol. VII, Number 1 and ''The Print Collector's Quarterly'', Volume XXX, Number 4. * Vol 7, #2 (Jan 1952) ''Print, The Magazine of the Graphic Arts'' - until * Vol 9, #2 (Oct/Nov 1954) ''Print'' - until * Vol 11, #4 (Jan/Feb 1958) ''Print, The Magazine of Visual Communication'' - until * Vol 12, #1 (July/Aug 1958) ''Print, America's Graphic Design Magazine'' at least until May/June 2005 Vol 59, #3.

References

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