Michael Wolff (of Wolff Olins fame) talks about the muscle of curiosity, Cooper Black, and being obsessively interested in everything. From Intel’s Visual Life series.
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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 [...]
“Interiors” Architectural News, Chermayeff & Geismar, 1964
Way back in first term–knee high to a grasshopper as I was–we were assigned in Communication Design 1 to make a magazine cover for Architectural News using the idea of “fused metaphors.” We were told to make lists of each of the things to be represented (in our case [...]
As the term comes to end, there are two things that I look forward to the most. One, of course, is a good post-term hibernation and second, is the grad show. No matter how tired I am that last day, I muster up the energy to go to the grad show. One person’s work whom [...]
Petrula Vrontikis is a strong contributing member of the Art Center community who not only teaches Advanced Graphic Studio and Portfolio classes, but also strives to represent us out in the real world. I first met her about four years ago at an Art Center event at the Landor offices in San Francisco. She came [...]
Chesley is a type instructor here at Art Center College of Design. After graduating top of his class from Art Center, he has gone on to work at a major Los Angeles branding firm and later to establish himself as a Freelance print and interactive designer here in LA.
He is known for being a disciple [...]
As you know, Student Spotlight focuses on Art Center students and their work. This week I did an interview with Stefanie Kuga, a 7th Term designer who is on the packaging track. I find her work inspiring because it is wonderfully unique and feels really personal. The most interesting work I come across always [...]