Ironically, the NEA’s ‘Art Works’ logo design project did not work for thousands of artists who participated.

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A case study of Eddie Opara’s daring and maligned graphic identity for UCLA.

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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Note: this post refers to a WordPress theme that is no longer in use on this site. 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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