My latest post to Print magazine’s imPrint is an interview with Trina Robbins, the first female underground comix artist. She talks about a variety of subjects, including fashion, feminism, and her new book, Tarpé Mills & Miss Fury. That’s Miss Fury up above, circa mid-1940s. Fury’s name and image also decorated WWII bomber nosecones; see [...]
Claytons in their Wishy Washy room. Photo by Joan Dooley.
Rob and Christian Clayton received their B.F.A.s with honors at Art Center about 20 years ago. And they now teach painting and illustration at the school. And their “Inside Out” exhibition opened at the Pasadena Museum of California Art a few weeks ago. But you probably [...]
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 [...]
I first saw Michael Bierut onstage during the design “reality show” Command-X at the AIGA Make/Think conference in Memphis. If Sean Adams was the cool and collected advice-givning Tim Gunn character, Michael was the bubbly host Heidi Klum (hey, that’s a compliment if I ever heard one). During the student portfolio review later that evening, [...]
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 [...]
Jeri Heiden still works with many of the friends she met back in her Art Center student days, “Photographers like George Holz, Just Loomis, and Victoria Pearson.” As for remembering her instructors… well, not so much. She also mentions the school’s “terrific mentoring program.”
Read my full interview with Jeri, and see more of her music [...]
Former Art Center student and recent AIGA/LA Fellow John Coy name checks Doyald Young and Lou Danziger in my latest imPrint interview. He discusses the people who’ve influenced his career, including Robert Rauschenberg (see below).
You can read the story and view more of John’s work at Print magazine’s Imprint site.
Margo Chase, founder of Chase Design Group, joined us a few weeks ago for another thrilling installment of Design History with Michael Dooley. She gave a wonderful presentation about the importance of change, and how it relates to her work over the years. She and I caught up afterward to talk about running a business, [...]
(Photo by Linda Abbott)
Stefan G. Bucher and I were introduced at Make/Think last October by the wonderful Terry Lee Stone. When he came to speak in Graphic Design History 2 this past week, I decided not to let him off the property until he had given me an interview. Luckily, he was very generous with [...]
Seymour Chwast is nothing less than a living legend. As Steven Heller wrote in his 1986 article for AIGA, “It would be difficult to imagine contemporary American and European graphic design and illustration without the presence of Seymour Chwast…A beguiling sense of humor underpins his illustration, and a keen understanding of traditional design governs his [...]