‘Part or Execution’ Album Cover
The tale of my adventure to a Brooklyn mannequin warehouse with musician Boots Factor and photographer Sean Hutcheon in search of an album cover design.
The Hand-painted Neighborhood
San Francisco’s Mission District has the strongest visual character of any neighborhood I’ve ever visited. Here’s a photo gallery of my visit there.
Scher-Approved Fonts
Back in 2007, Pentagram partner Paula Scher created graphic design templates (for business cards, stationary, etc) that were made available for free downloads from Hewlett-Packard. Those templates are no longer available, but I thought it was interesting to see the choices Ms. Scher made for fonts that represent specific design themes. The fonts in the [...]
Blog Redesign!
So… whaddaya think of the new digs? After I made some new decisions about how I plan to use this blog (I plan to use it more and bigger and better), I decided a redesign was necessary. Of course, that’s got me rethinking the design of the entire Magnetic State portfolio site as well – [...]
Michael Bierut on Logos, Crowdsourcing
This week, I enjoyed an interview with Pentagram partner Michael Bierut. Interviews like this explain why my first association with Mr. Bierut is not his design work but his persuasive and candid manner of speaking. In this interview, he makes some controversial statements about logo design and crowdsourcing. For example: “The truth about logos is [...]
Get Smashed.
I wrote a new article that was published at Smashing Magazine this week. It’s called How to Create a Promotional Snail Mail Campaign. Check it out!
True Beauty.
David Pearson designed a series of fiercely beautiful book covers for Cormac McCarthy novels. I’m a huge McCarthy fan, having recently worked my way through the vast majority of his work. These covers use inventive, lovingly crafted typography to express a violence and beauty that the novels contain. They are the best typographic work I’ve [...]
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