ACCD MFA grad Rebeca Méndez and 25 other artists and designers have each interpreted an alphabet letter for an exhibition that recently opened at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. You can now read my interview with Rebeca at Print magazine’s online venue.
And yes, that is Art Center Orange on the outer edges of her [...]
Last month I wrote a four part series about AIGA San Diego’s annual Y conference for Print magazine’s Imprint, before this year’s event at the end of March.
Y16’s main stage participants included moderators Petrula Vrontikis and Nik Hafermaas and featured presenters Brian Boyl and Chris Dooley (Art Center alumnus, graphic design, class of 2000). And [...]
2003: My very first encounter with Doyald was on the back seat of his Lexus. No, he didn’t sit next to me – he sat in front of me. He was driving Petrula and me to the first Y-Conference in San Diego I ever spoke at.
Fresh off the boat from Berlin I had no concept [...]
“…[C]ommercial artist Reid Miles (an avid jazz fan himself) joined the Blue Note to become the label’s senior album cover designer and over the next 11 years, created some of the most iconic covers in music history.”
Very proud to report that our very own Kurvenmeister Doyald Young rocked TypeCon 2010. Late apex – verrry dangerous!
This summer, Leonard Konopelski’s Communication Design 3 class was a flurry of Xerox scraps, glue sticks, and X-acto knives. It was a good old-fashioned, cut-and-paste festival powered by Leonard’s humor and thick Polish accent. Our final project was a collaged self-portrait poster. The process started with simple head-shots and evolved into unique, beautiful, and sometimes [...]
More bliss from my beloved home town: another dear friend just sent me the link to this simple yet highly effective urban media intervention: Project Farbenmeer is a public art project aimed at visually tracking Berlin’s traffic. Volunteers spilled gallons of water-based paint on a busy car crossing, which was then distributed all over the [...]
You can tell your best friends by by the thoughtfulness of their gifts. Enter Holger Zeh, the guy who sat next to me in the entry exam for Visual Communication at the University of Arts in Berlin. Back when the earth cooled, the wooly mammoth still roamed the divided city, and we still listened to [...]
Hello everyone, I’m the resident luddite who will be sharing designs that require your hands to get dirty. Don’t get me wrong, I like inDesign’s grid as much as the next guy, but sometimes there’s more to life than pixels. With that said, let’s look at the first studio, Sopp Collective.
Australian band The Falls [...]