Blackwing Blog

5 Ways to Unplug for the Global Day of Unplugging

Jessica Cleveland

Why unplug? What began as an awareness campaign initiated by non-profit group Reboot about the mental health benefits of long-term smartphone use in 2009 has grown into a worldwide phenomenon known as the Global Day of Unplugging (formerly...
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Visit Greenpoint, Brooklyn with Blackwing

Jessica Cleveland

Take a trip with us to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Tucked away in this brick landscape is the cozy Yoseka Stationery shop, where East meets West. “We started Yoseka Stationery as a way of introducing Asian stationery here in the...
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Blackwing Vol. 192 - Behind the Design

Andrew Nguyen

The Color Prism/Venn Diagram design depicted on the Blackwing Vol. 192 is a visual representation of these two disparate, but interdependent voices and how they come together to create something beautiful. It was noted during their collaborative years,...
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The Evolution of Animation - Blackwing Vol. 7

Jessica Cleveland

Blackwing Volume 7 celebrates the history of animation. Vol. 7’s unique design features 6 different interlaced patterns that form a 7-frame animation when seen through a viewfinder. The viewfinder uses a process known as “picket fence animation” or...
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Chuck Jones Creativity Pad Inspiration

Andrew Nguyen

Introducing the Chuck Jones Creativity Pad, our first-ever landscape orientation notebook. Chuck Jones preferred a wide canvas for his sketches. The Creativity Pad is designed to give creative minds the largest unrestricted canvas possible.
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