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 [...]
During my trip to London in mid-September, I was fortunate enough to interview the very talented artist Rob Lowe, also known as Supermundane. Rob is a man who loves to draw, who loves words, and who loves drawing words. ‘Supermundane’ is a word that Rob stumbled upon in a dictionary, and it spoke to him. [...]
[Note: this interview was previously published at an earlier incarnation of this blog, and it was also featured on the New York Times' City Room blog here. Many thanks to the editors.] Michael Sayers is the owner and manager of Photoplay Video & DVD, a movie rental and sales store located at 928 Manhattan Avenue [...]
Welcome to another Magnetic State Blog Dept. interview with a creative professional. Today’s interview subject is Ryan Germick, a designer at Google as well as a cartoonist, web designer, Indiana native, and Prince enthusiast. Ryan and I became friends while attending the BA/BFA program at the New School together; we both graduated in 2003 with [...]
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