the nose

i got a cool sample from my clampitt rep the other day. one of the perks of listening to her talk about paper is getting cool paper samples. (and i'm not complaining - who doesn't like to talk about paper, right, especially when the talk is accompanied with swatchbooks and breakfast tacos)
this last time was payday - she brought me the latest issue of The Nose, pushpin's "publication designed to draw attention to relevant social issues as well as trivial ones."
each issue is 24 pages - all designed and illustrated by seymour chwast - and my hero, stephen heller, is the editor. for some reason, i'd not seen or heard of an issue before this last one. maybe it's bc i've been buried at work, buried in design lit that i felt i had to catch up with, or i became jaded after hearing about rudy vanderlan's retirement of emigre.
or maybe - and this is a good thing - the design world is finally so full of good stuff to read and look at, that we actually have too much to hear about, and therefore can miss hearing about cool pubs like The Nose. i remember when emigre was free. i was still in design school - and it was only after i graduated in 2001 that they started having to charge for issues bc of the demand for the issues.
it's also this plethora of wantable design materials that gives me reason to start a new category on desidiom. bc i'm a designer. and i need the presents of good design reading, posters, and fonts in my life.
and yes, i spelled presents correctly...