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FEBRUARY WORKSHOPS: Letterpress with Two Paperdolls
Join us on Thursday February 9th, and Thursday February 23rd from 6-8PM for letterpress workshops with this month's featured artist, Two Paperdolls! For both workshops, the pressman of Two Paperdolls will ... Read More
1932 Chandler and Price Platen Press at Art in the Age!
The press has arrived! Stop by our opening First Friday event to see the press and an original series of letterpress prints by Two Paperdolls! If you'd like to see it ... Read More
FEBRUARY EXHIBITION: TWO PAPERDOLLS
The American Alliance of Unpaid Public Servants A Poster Series by Two Paperdolls “The first lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person — her husband.” Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Two Paperdolls ... Read More
Hammerstone Whiskey Disks Now Available at AITA!
Hammerstone is a father son business tucked away in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, only a short distance from our friends at the Tamworth Lyceum. The Hammerstone company represents ... Read More
January Exhibition: Cultivating the Cocktail
January 6-29th, 2012 Opening reception: First Friday, January 6th, 6-8PM Throughout history, the consumption of fermented and distilled beverages was considered safer than drinking water, creating a need for well made palatable refreshments. Over ... Read More
1. Field Notes: Red Blooded $9.95 2. Organic Hemp Bath Towel Set: $105 3. Art in the Age: Root Soap $7 4. Sort of Coal: Kuro Cube $25 5. Peg & Awl: Coal Pouch ... Read More
AITA Bottle Terrariums at Bartram’s Garden Recap
This past week our friends at Bartram's Garden held an amazing terrarium building workshop, with expert instruction from Allen Crawford (aka Lord Whimsy). Using recycled AITA spirit's bottles, workshop attendees built ... Read More
AITA Holiday Gift Guide: For Him
1. Truman Handcrafted: Journal Cover $110 2. Penfield: Buckland Backpack $40 3. JW Hulme: Deluxe Field Thermos $200 4. Woolrich John Rich & Bro's: Polar Park $695 5. Truman Handcrafted: Tuck Wallet $110 6. MCMC ... Read More
AITA Holiday Gift Guide: Teroforma Whisky Stones
Teroforma Whisky Stones co-founder, Andrew Hellman, took inspiration from a bag of loose stones found in his Swedish grandfather's liquor cabinet. The stones were used to cool "neat" drinks ... Read More
Holiday Textile Stocking Workshop
Thursday, December 15th, 2011. 6-8pm Join us at Art in the Age to create one of a kind screenprinted holiday stockings! Attendees will have the opportunity to screenprint fabric with seasonal ... Read More
New Arrival: Organic Vintage Linens for the Home
We are in love with these new bath towels and accessories made form organic hemp and linen. These hand-woven textiles are made ... Read More
Design Phan: Submit Your Favorite Philadelphia Design
Design Phan, by journalist Caroline Tiger, is a new project gathering some of the best examples of design in the city of Philadelphia. "I decided to really put the question out ... Read More
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE: John Coffer
The simple home and beautiful photography of John Coffer. COFFER from thismustbetheplace on Vimeo. Produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui, of Lost & Found Films. Read More
Art in the Age has teamed up with Philadelphia artist NoseGo to produce a truly amazing one of a kind collaboration! NoseGo has transformed four Art in the Age totes ... Read More
New: Me and Arrow Fall Accessories in Stock
For Fall of 2011, bag designers Me & Arrow have scoured fabric warehouses to find the best deadstock fabrics and remnant leathers. This season, the bags and other accessories are focused ... Read More
George Nakashima Woodworker: Preserving a Legacy
George Nakashima Woodworker is a custom furniture company located just outside Philadelphia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, owned by siblings Mira and Kevin Nakashima. Founded by their father, George Nakashima (1905-1990), ... Read More
Little Known Facts About the Civil War
During the months of July and August, Art in the Age will be hosting an exhibition with Philadelphia design house The Heads of State, featuring new work inspired by the ... Read More
JULY/AUGUST EXHIBITION: AN IMPERFECT UNION by THE HEADS of STATE
AN IMPERFECT UNION A Re-Illustration of the Civil War By The Heads of State July 1st – August 28th, 2011 As we celebrate our nation's independence this July, we are also reminded of ... Read More
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society “Pop Up Garden”
As part of a revolution to reclaim the city's abandoned lots from landlords seemingly paralyzed by the economy, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) has taken over a lot on the ... Read More
What You Do to the World, You Do to Yourself
We love these illustrations from Advertisers Without Borders! Via 10 Engines Read More
June 16-19th: SNAP and ROOT at the Northside Festival Open Studios
Greenpoint Open Studios is teaming up with L magazine this year to bring you NORTHSIDE OPEN STUDIOS, a four day event celebrating a burgeoning art scene in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, ... Read More
Thaumatropes and The Origins of Animation
Thaumatrope by John Ayrton Paris, 1825 Way before Pixar, and before the Disney and Warner Brother's empires, there was the Thaumatrope. A thaumatrope is a small disc, held on opposite ... Read More
JUNE WORKSHOP: Natural Dyeing with BLUEREDYELLOW
WHAT BLUEREDYELLOW is a design and natural dye house creating locally grown color on chemical-free textiles in Philadelphia. They are working toward creating completely local clothing including the color, the fabric ... Read More
Time, Space, and the Final Frontier: First Friday Opening
Our First Friday opening for Time, Space, and the Final Frontier was an amazing time! Guest curator Leah Kauffman put together an excellent selection of work from a variety of local ... Read More
The Clingstone House on Narragansett Bay
Clingstone is a 10,000 square foot mansion located on a small rocky island on Narragansett Bay, RI. For the past fifty years the house has been owned by architect ... Read More
June Exhibition: Time, Space, and The Final Frontier by Leah Kauffman
Time, Space, and The Final Frontier opening at Art in The Age First Friday, June 3rd 6-8PM In this postmodern, hyper-realistic information age we are constantly questioning the nature of identity and existence. ... Read More
May Exhibition: Sustaining Spring
Sustaining Spring May 6-29, 2011 Opening Reception: First Friday, May 6th, 6-8PM Art in the Age is proud to present Sustaining Spring, a group exhibition featuring an eclectic mix of work from environmentally ... Read More
Reverend Michael Alan’s Custom Certificates & Hand Drawn Documentation
Our good friend The Reverend Michael Alan just turned us on to his beautiful hand painted certificates, lovingly created in a traditional Fraktur style. Not only would these certificates be ... Read More
Hammarhead Industries Lecture and Demo……AMAZING!
Last night James Hammarhead of Hammarhead Industries gave an amazing talk at Art in the Age, explaining his philosophy on motorcycles as well as starting a business from the ground ... Read More
News from The Lyceum: Eco-Friendly Printmaking
Solvents suck. Big time. Countless studies have shown that prolonged exposure to VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) can cause nervous and respiratory system damage to adults, and major issues for babies, ... Read More
First Friday Opening: Industrial Arts by Hammarhead Industries
This past Friday, Art in the Age held an opening for a month long exhibition featuring custom motorcycles by Philadelphia's own Hammarhead Industries. The event was a blast, and drew ... Read More
Henry David Thoreau: Philosopher, Poet, Pencil Pioneer
(via arttattler.com) We unilaterally advocate that "Jack of All Trades" be revised henceforth to "Henry of All Trades." Our fave anarchist, Henry David Thoreau...WHAT A GUY. Despite Nathaniel Hawthorne's less-than-glowing ... Read More
Launched in February 2007, Monocle is a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design. Developed for an international audience hungry for information across a variety of sectors, ... Read More
March Exhibition: Industrial Arts, Modern Motorcycles by Hammarhead Industries
“Honor the past but never look back.” -James Hammarhead James Hammarhead founded Hammarhead Industries to satisfy his yearning for a simple, yet modern motorcycle. His mission is to build elemental motorcycles ... Read More
Leather Journal Workshop with Tyler Scaife
This past week AITA hosted a workshop with photographer Tyler Scaife as part of his month-long exhibition at the AITA gallery. Tyler demonstrated how to create hand-bound leather journals out ... Read More
New Arrival: Phosphorescence Sunglasses
Phosphorescence is a brand new sunglass line from Hisham Akira Baroocha. An artist and musician himself (Lightening Bolt, Black Dice, Soft Circle), Hisham wanted to create an arena for creative ... Read More
Tyler Scaife Opening Reception on First Friday
This past Friday, Art in the Age held an opening reception for photographer Tyler Scaife's exhibition, featuring photos and pieces built and gathered from the condemned Julia de Burgos school ... Read More
On a trip to Beijing, painter Kevin Cyr conceived and built a CAMPER BIKE: an amalgamation of a Chinese 3-wheeled flatbed bike with an American cabover style camper. Interested in ... Read More
Sit and Read / Strawser & Smith ROOT Event Photos
We are so happy Sit and Read is just a hop, skip, and jump across a few bridges because Art in the Age was able to attend the Launch Party ... Read More
Art in the Age visits the Corsillo Brothers of The Hillside
Emil and Sandy Corsillo of the Hillside recently had us over to their Williamsburg, Brooklyn loft to hang out and have a few ROOT and SNAP cocktails. We were able ... Read More
New Arrival: Apartamento Magazine
We are all super excited about Apartamento, a magazine which focuses on the actual living spaces of real people, rather than über-manicured designer showrooms. The first issue of Apartamento was released ... Read More
VIDEO: Tyler Scaife Exhibition Opening Next Friday!
Here's a sneak peak of some behind the scenes footage of Tyler Scaife shooting photographs in preparation for his February show at Art in the Age. The show kicks of ... Read More
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Peacock Male
Exuberance and Extremes in Masculine Dress January 22 - June, 2011 Men’s apparel is often thought of as staid and restrained, especially when compared to feminine fashions. Until the late eighteenth century, ... Read More
Wharton Esherick: A Philadelphia Modernist
Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) was a sculptor who worked primarily in wood, readily extending his unique forms to furniture, furnishings, utensils, interiors and buildings, creating sculptural environments. His motto, “if it ... Read More
Photo Duo by Men and Women of Industry
First released in 1959, the Olympus Pen half frame camera has become somewhat of a cult item for photographers today. By using the half-frame format, Olympus was able to reduce ... Read More
New Year’s Resolution: To Keep a Journal
As 2010 draws to a close and you are reflecting on the past year; the good, the bad and the ugly. Undoubtedly this has urged you to make some resolutions ... Read More
Friends of Art in the Age, Philadelphia dyeing collective BLUEREDYELLOW, have just announced the opening of their online shop. Check out their chemical free, locally dyed garments, made with super ... Read More
ROOT in VT: Photos from Yestermorrow Design/Build School’s Art Auction
A lively Saturday evening was spent in Waitsfield/Warren, VT at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, perusing an array of beautiful works in a most impressive and warm environment. The eclectic pieces ... Read More
ROOT Kicked Off First Friday at Denver’s Space Gallery
Located in the heart of Denver's Arts District, Space Gallery exhibits painting, sculpture, ceramics and print work from both emerging and established artists. This past Friday, the gallery welcomed Art ... Read More
October Issue of Monocle In Store Now!
The October issue of the international culture-savvy periodical Monocle has arrived at the store. This issue, entitled "Finding Your Groove: The Monocle Global Style Survey," covers the following topics: A: Baku: ... Read More
Just in for the fall season: The Gentlewoman Issue No.2 and Strange & Wonderful: An informal Visual History of Manuscript Books and Albums. The Gentlewoman, is a new bi-annual magazine which ... Read More
Raleigh Denim Trunk Show This Thursday!
Join us this Thursday, August 26th, for the Raleigh Denim Trunk Show and meet and greet, with owners/designers Sarah and Victor Lytvinenko. These talented craftspeople are paying a special ... Read More
Jessica Hische Reception at AITA
This past Friday, July 30, Art in the Age held a reception featuring the work of designer and Illustrator Jessica Hische. The reception marked the half way point of Jessica's ... Read More
VIDEOS: Jessica Hische Talks About Daily Drop Cap and Lettering in General
In the following video interview with Art in the Age, Jessica Hische talks about the inspiration behind her incredibly popular Daily Drop Cap project. Art In The Age Presents... Jessica Hische ... Read More
Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type 1828-1900: RE-ISSUED!
Delicious. The only appropriate word that comes to mind as I peruse the letter-laden pages of The Latest & Greatest News in Wood Type Land: The one and only comprehensive compendium ... Read More
Happy Birthday Ottmar Mergenthaler, Father of The Linotype!
Ottmar Mergenthaler, dubbed the 2nd Gutenberg by some, was born on this day, May 11 in 1854. Mr. Mergenthaler was a German inventor who birthed The Linotype Machine – an apparatus ... Read More
Oh Selectism, how you have stolen our heart.
We wanted to take this quick opportunity to give a shout-out to one of our favorite blogs, Selectism. They continually feature awesome content and great articles from the likes of ... Read More
WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD—A Selective Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Philadelphia
The Philadelphia of To-Day, The World's Greatest Workshop: America's largest ... Read More
Want up-to-the-minute news on what's happening in ROOT-land? FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! We'll be posting news on where to find ROOT in stores, the latest bars that are carrying it, drink specials ... Read More
FARMADELPHIA: An Interview with Yen Ha & Michi Yanagashita of Front Studio
Philadelphia has much to offer visitors and residents alike - from the swank Avenue of the Arts, to the cobblestone streets of Old City, to the ethnic flavors of the ... Read More
“Art is an investment, you can live with” so you must have this photozine..or not?!
...so reads the tag-line on the Myspace page of Blemish Zine, a wee photo compilation I picked up at Needles & Pens in San Francisco a few weeks ago. The ... Read More
Book Covers As Art: Fontana Modern Masters
Coolest find of the weekend, courtesy of a pal. (Covered by click opera, the journal of Scottish artist and Berlin resident, momus.) Hearkening back to the 1970's, "Fontana Modern Masters was a ... Read More
The Textile Files: Walter In The Wild & A Plethora of Other Fabric Delights
The Textile Files, the musings of Solveigh Goett (German textile artist and researcher living in the south of England), is my new favorite blog. Simple and unassumingly poignant in nature, ... Read More
ESSENTIAL MANIFESTO: The New Typography, Jan Tschichold
Two years ago, one of my most awesome and favorite design professors instructed me to get my hands on a copy of this tiny volume as fast as I possibly ... Read More
VIDEO: AITA Store Tour with Jason Thompson, Architect
How exactly do dreams become reality? How are sketches transformed into structures? Rissay Ltd Architecture & Construction, the masterminds behind the physical build-out of the Art In The Age Flagship ... Read More
DESIGN RESOURCE: Meet Your Printmaker
For the religiously inclined, meeting one's maker constitutes a divine and spiritual experience. Meeting one's printmaker, to the tactilely and artfully inclined, may result in parallel sentiment. Kevin O'Neill, a graphic designer ... Read More
Oded Ezer’s The Typographer’s Guide To The Galaxy
Can't wait. Can't wait. Can't wait. I will have to wait. Until April, that is, until I can get my hands on a copy of The Typographer's Guide To The Galaxy, the ... Read More
Fleisher Art Memorial Print Love-In 2009: 9th Annual Valentine Card Printing Workshop!
On Sunday, February 1st, Fleisher Art Memorial will host a Valentine-themed printmaking workshop for the public! Choose from either of two sessions:11am-1:30pm2pm-4:30pm Relief, silkscreen, collograph, letterpress, and lithography print processes will be ... Read More
