“Great design is about more than good-looking products. It has the power to shape how we experience life.” See the full essay here.
20 Designs That Defined the Modern World
Posted January 3, 2023Happy Holidays
Posted December 19, 2022
Colin Forbes, a ‘Designer’s Designer,’ Is Dead at 94
Posted May 27, 2022Colin Forbes, a graphic designer who had a hand in countless logos, book covers and interior spaces, but whose most enduring work may have been, essentially, designing a design organization, Pentagram, which grew from its founding in the early 1970s to have worldwide influence, died on Sunday at his home in Westfield, N.C., near the border with Virginia. He was 94. Read the full NY Times recognition here:
David Byrne’s “Reasons to be Cheerful”
Posted February 1, 2022The ever curious David Byrne (Talking Heads) has created an antidote to the everyday downer news: the website Reasons to be Cheerful is chock full of feel-good stories of people doing good. Check it out here: reasonstobecheerful.world
Great Site for Exploring Van Gogh’s Work
Posted March 2, 2021
Discover the Life and Work of Vincent van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum website. Zoom WAY in and see every brush stroke. While museums are closed this is the next best thing. Van Gogh Museum.
Milton Glaser 1929-2020
Posted July 10, 2020A hero to all living graphic designers, Milton Glaser worked until his death at 91. His Dylan poster made it into nearly six million homes. Read the NY times obit here.
A White Woman, Racism and a Poodle
Posted June 12, 2020A woman is repeatedly pulled over for no apparent reason until she realizes her poodle, who rides in the front seat, has been mistaken for a black man. Read the essay here.
Happy New Year!
Posted January 2, 2019
NEW WORK: Event Poster for Steel Bridge Songfest
Posted December 30, 2018One of the great things about being a graphic designer is getting to work on such a variety of projects. For many designers, the poster is one of our favorites, and sadly, one that comes around all too seldom (at least for us). Recently Greg was privileged to get to design a poster for an annual music and song festival in Sturgeon Bay, WI. With a limited budget but an extensive trove of photography from past events, a collage seemed a good solution.
Happy Halloween!
Posted October 31, 2018
Get Out the Vote 2018
Posted October 27, 2018
Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers
Posted October 12, 2018
Some great tips for anyone who writes: fiction, non-fiction, essays or blog posts. Reprinted from Open Culture. (See the full article here.)
1. First write for yourself, and then worry about the audience. “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”
2. Don’t use passive voice. “Timid writers like passive verbs for the same reason that timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe.”