About the Journal

The Journal is a place where our clients and friends can keep up with what we are doing, reading, thinking, and curious about. It is also our newsroom for events and press, as well as a place where we post longer articles about our projects and other matters that are relevant to us.

A solo exhibition created by Megawords magazine opens Friday, March 5th at Printed Matter in New York City. The show will offer an introduction to the entire project, including displays of all past issues, photos and work by Megawords and Megawords contributors, and other related ephemera and inspiration. In addition, a light and sound...

Steve Powers A Love Letter for You

1. Friday, February 12th - A Love Letter for You art show opening
Steve Powers and Co. put together an installation that documents the creation and inspiration behind the Love Letter project. Copies of the book will be available.

The opening for the exhibition starts at...

Smyrski Creative Stolen House

The newest issue of Megawords is available now! We are throwing a last minute release party at the Fleisher-Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia. The event will take place this Thursday from 6:30 to 9pm.

As part of the festivities we will be showing a selection of short films by Adams and Itso from Denmark,...

Baedeker guidebooks have become an essential part of modern travel lore. Besides their romantic connotations, we also love the amazing design detialed line-work of the fold out maps, and the leather covers and threaded bookmarks.

Verlag Karl Baedeker was a Germany-based publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides. The guides, often referred as simply "Baedekers" contain important introductions, descriptions of buildings, of museum collections, etc., written by the...

Next American City - Smyrski Creative

We recently recieved issue 25 of Next American City from our printers in Canada. We're very happy with how things turned out.

The Winter 2009 issue includes features stories like:

E for Equity 
Inside New Jersey’s Education Debate by Carly Berwick
Memphis Blues:
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Take a sneak peak at some phototgraphy we produced for wejetset's online store. Many thanks to Victor and Elsa, pictured here!

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Recenty Mayor Nutter spoke about Philadelphia's sustainability commitment at a fundraiser for Next American City magazine. I was particularly excited to hear about his plans for making the city a more bike friendly place. He's of course got a tough challenge ahead, but myself and everyone else at Next American City has faith in his abilities.

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Look out for more about our PEI sponsored trip to the 53rd annual Venice Biennale. We also touched down in Naples and Rome. More photos on Flick and in issue 12 of Megawords magazine, due out in January.

 

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Another interview from the Megawords magazine archives. This time we have artist Steve Powers and NYC media mogul Ari Forman, the founders of the now out of print magazine On the Go. Originally published in issue 7 of Megawords.

On The Go

Interview by Anthony Smyrski and Dan Murphy
Photo courtesy of ON THE GO

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The One Every Day show opened this past weekend in New York. We were excited to attend the opening and see works from Temporary Services, Post Typography, Kate Bingaman-Burt and others. Megawords also put together a small installation for the show. Also, much thanks to curator Amze Emmons for including us in the show.

 

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One Every Day runs...