Art

My first exhibition poster for AIGA (1980) was on the topic of political art and graphic commentary, a potent mix of expressive symbolism and satiric acerbity. I immediately asked Brad Holland, who was best known at the time for his thought-provoking New York Times Op-Ed surrealistic linear style, to donate an image. I had already […]

There’s a moment between your fifth thumb-scroll of the morning and your first sip of coffee when your brain quietly mutinies against the hyper-lit, over-edited, aggressively color-graded videos that feel less like something you discovered and more like something that discovered you. And then, every once in a while, a beer can with googly eyes

Holly shares her journey as a nutritional scientist and formulating chemist, and how that experience led her to develop JostArriba, an instant coffee with added brain health and mental well-being benefits. We discuss the nootropic and adaptogen ingredients, like Reishi, Lions Mane, Ashwagandha, and L-Theanine, and how Holly obsessed over not just the functionality of

Introducing the fourth chapter of Project 2 by The 2Craigs—a year-long visual relay between photographer Craig Cutler and illustrator Craig Frazier. Each piece picks up where the last leaves off, shaped not by conversation or plan, but by intuition alone, as the series continues to unfold in unexpected ways. Dialogue 12:13 Dialogue 13:14 The post

There was a time when speed was the strategy. For digital media, especially in sports, velocity became synonymous with relevance. Publish first. Optimize later. Feed the algorithm. In that environment, design often followed function; templated, disposable, built to keep pace with an endless scroll. Identity, if it existed at all, was secondary to distribution. But

“At the start of the COVID pandemic, everyone was doing a lot of soul-searching,” writes Houston-based Jennifer Blanco, the creative director and founding partner of Field of Study. “If you weren’t baking bread, you were likely contemplating your general existence.” Blanco was wondering if what she and her partner were doing as small business owners

Few things are more rewarding to a leader than walking by a conference room and hearing laughter. At our peak at Chiat New York, I could pass three separate conference rooms and hear it spilling out of each one. To me, that meant people were working together. Coming up with great ideas. Actually wanting to

What Can Designers Do When Heroes Fail? The tragedy of Cesar Chavez swells and reverberates like a social atom bomb. There are the late United Farm Workers leader’s victims, including children, molested or raped by the man held up as a walking embodiment of justice. They bore not only the pain (and in one case,

There is a quiet but consequential shift happening inside creative agencies, one that has less to do with technology itself and more to do with how agencies are choosing to respond to it. For the better part of the last decade, the creative industry has been preoccupied with scale: more content, faster production, broader reach.

On March 27 the Seattle Symphony performed the worldwide premiere of a new Peanuts symphonic experience. The Peanuts concert is a celebration of music by the legendary composer Vince Guaraldi that marks the 75th anniversary of his first professional recording session, and the 60th anniversary of the iconic “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” television