Amanda Buck: Archive

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10 Things Every Social Entrepreneur Should Know →

Via MoreThanThisBlog. Lessons from the field by Josh McManus, the co-founder of CreateHere, a Chattanooga, TN nonprofit specializing in community renewal through entrepreneurial endeavor.

Feb 24th

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Feb 23rd

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“To collect one’s forces, even when they seem to be scattered, and when...”

– Maria Montessori (via Robin Mooty)

Feb 8th

Feb 4th

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Design for Good Syndrome

Well put. Couldn’t agree more. morethanthisblog: There are several “Design for Good” entities that will likely never move past surface-level efforts for social change until they realize that systems change is (1) a cross-disciplinary sport, (2) a long haul and (3) not always popular. Until designers find a way to move beyond our networks of peer support, the result of any Design for Good...

Feb 2nd

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Eating Alabama

So excited for my friend Andrew Grace, whose film, Eating Alabama, will be premiering at this year’s South by Southwest! I am so grateful to have been an (albeit very small) part of the project. I have been working with Andy for the last year on the film’s title, posters, and website. The laurels are up on the website, go check it out!

Feb 1st

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We the People

A few months back I started a letterpress project. It required participation from friends all over the country, so the process was long and unpredictable. It was challenging and fun, and I hope to do more projects like it in the future. As these things go, the final product doesn’t much resemble what I originally had in mind. But that is the nature of experimentation. You just have to roll...

Feb 1st

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Beautiful Essay by Will Holman in Design Observer →

Jan 16th

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Visual Storytelling →

An infographic I designed with The Atlantic, How the Recession Changed Us, was published in this book. And I share a spread with Nicholas Felton!! Can’t believe it.

Nov 2nd

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Object Guerrilla

Will Holman is a designer, writer, and builder (and also my boyfriend!) from Baltimore, who recently started a blog. He has a lot of interesting things to say about design, architecture, biking, and the consumer-industrial complex, so you should go check it out. It’s called Object Guerrila: On the front lines of sustainable design. He’s also teaching a class (how to make fruit bowls...

Nov 1st

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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”

– – via SwissMiss

Nov 1st

CommArts Fresh →

Thanks, Comm Arts!

Oct 4th

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Sep 2nd

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Marwen: a nonprofit organization offering free,... →

This fall, I will be an assistant teacher at Marwen for a printmaking class led by the founder of Spudnik Press Cooperative, Angee Lennard. The class is for grades 6-8 and is called Surreal Printmaking: Design Foundations. I’m really, really excited about this!

Sep 2nd

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Design Envy · PieLab Cookbook: Amanda Buck →

Thanks Ethan Bodnar!

Aug 31st

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Eating Rainbow

New posters for sale here! Featuring classic metal type, this poster shows a list of fruits and vegetables rendered in the colors nature made them. Impressed lightly in the background is a comment on the sad state of our industrial food system: Taste the REAL rainbow. Printed in a 40-poster series at Studio 150 in Gordo, AL using 8 colors on lovely 10” x 13” Crane’s Lettra...

Aug 8th

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PieLab Cookbook

It’s printed! I am super stoked to present the PieLab cookbooks! Thank you to Elliot Knight for the photographs, Nicole Lavelle and her co-workers at Scout Books/Pinball Publishing for the amazing print job, and all the folks who participated in PieLab’s 2010 Bake-Off in Greensboro, Alabama. You can purchase the books at PieLab, or online from Scout Books here. Check out the case...

Jul 22nd

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Jul 11th

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Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2011 short film →

Jul 11th

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I'm moving

This week, I’ll be packing up and moving from rural Alabama to the city of Chicago. After 2 years in this great state, the time has come to move on. You know, I never thought I would find myself living in the south after college. It wasn’t even on my radar. I fully intended to move to a big city and find a job at a great design firm. I knew nothing about this region of the...

Jul 11th

sarahdeann: what if design really was for everyone? what if a mobile design classroom rolled onto main street one summer evening, holding open enrollment for workshops? what if your typography course was held under a canopy of old growth redwoods rather than florescent lights? what if school wasn’t a static place, but one that traveled where it was needed? —study partner, a teaching alliance...

Jul 10th

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Watch

Check out this amazing video that gives a taste of the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2011. I am stoked to have been a part of the process. Brandon Rike, Jana Kinsman, Richie Stewart, Erin Fuller and I contributed the hand drawn type seen throughout the video. Hoping I can attend next year!

Jul 7th

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Jun 20th

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Canning

I’ve become quite a canning enthusiast lately. A couple weeks ago, Wayne invited me to come by and pick a free gallon of blueberries for painting him a sign. With all those blueberries, I had to make something with them, and jam seemed like the best option. It’s easy to make, SO much more tasty than the jams you buy in the grocery store, and it’s easy to ship to friends and family around the...

Jun 20th

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Jun 17th

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Jun 16th

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Gumbo Letterpress Posters for sale!

I just launched my online shop and put my first item up for sale: A choose-your-own-recipe adventure for Gumbo! I am working on another poster now, so stay tuned! Gumbo is a classic New Orleans’ dish and is a great example of the mixture of cultures in the historic city. The poster itself illustrates the possibilities, as well as the limits, of letterpress printing. Printed in a...

Jun 16th

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Jun 15th

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Jun 13th

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España

More photos from the Holga! This April, I went to Spain to visit friends and explore more of that beautiful country. Madrid > Granada > Sevilla > Vigo & Ourense

Jun 9th

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London

Jun 7th

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Holga

I recently bought a Holga camera, and I just got my first rolls of film developed. It was a lot of fun taking these photos, even if most of them didn’t come out. I guess that is what to expect with a Holga! Here are a few photos from the March Doo-Nanny. More photos to come.

Jun 6th

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May 27th

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May 23rd

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Apr 4th

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Mar 29th

Quite Strong

I am honored to be on this list of “quite strong” ladies curated by the collaborative known as Quite Strong, creatives of the female variety. Thanks, ladies! By the way, I know my “Words of Advice” are a bit cliché… but I really do believe them!

Mar 20th

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Mar 20th

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“I also have this tremendous sense of urgency, like if I don’t get everything out...”

– Amanda Hocking’s Blog: Some Things That Need to Be Said Hocking is the writer who is “making millions selling ebooks independently.” Nice recalibratory blog post. Work is work, there are no silver bullets or magic spells. Sorry, media. (via mavenist)

Mar 6th

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