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Sight & Sound (aka Men & Movies)

April 22, 2009 Blog
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Letter to the Editor: Reading the most recent issue of Sight & Sound (‘Seeing the Light’, April ’09) made me wonder if your magazine shouldn’t be renamed Movies & Men. Your article ‘Talking Shop’ features thirteen (white) cinematographers, only one of whom is a woman. Representative? Perhaps not. Your list of Contributors features fifteen names [...]

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Design Anarchy (Lasn, 2006) – Review

August 12, 2007 Blog
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This is the unedited version of a review I wrote of Kalle Lasn’s new book Design Anarchy (ORO Editions, 2006) for Eye magazine. He’s a West-coast sneaker marketer with one of the coolest brands around. He’s ironic and media-savvy, and he understands his target audience. He has a singular appreciation of the power of graphic [...]

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Paula Scher on the Bush administration’s record

July 6, 2007 Blog

Pentagram partner Paula Scher speaks truth to power. A timely reminder for those designers who claim that graphic design has nothing to do with politics.

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Do you see what I see?

September 26, 2006 Blog
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When I opened Saturday’s edition of The Globe and Mail and saw this photo, all I noticed, at least initially, were the two white horns protruding from the man on the left’s head. On further inspection, I decided they weren’t so much wildly out of place as simply on the wrong head.

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Adding my own Voice

September 17, 2006 Blog
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A recent piece by me in Voice, the AIGA’s online journal of graphic design.

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New issue of Public

February 26, 2006 Blog
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Full Circle

October 11, 2005 Blog
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Public lettering is a term that is increasingly used to describe the totality of visible letterforms that surround us: on street signs, storefronts, monuments, drain covers, bus tickets, etc. Public lettering predates the development of graphic design and of typography before that.

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We’ve arrived.

September 20, 2005 Blog
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Interview with Klik magazine

July 21, 2005 Blog

I’ve just finished an interview with a Slovenian journalist called Barbara Predan for Klik magazine. She contacted me because I was a jury member for this year’s Memefest. I found Predan’s questions about the politics of graphic design, especially logos and culture jamming, both informed and challenging. I’m posting the full, unedited, English version here [...]

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What a difference a year makes.

July 11, 2005 Blog
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It’s almost a year to the day since we last joined our friends for a trip to Lake Champlain. This time around we even stopped at the same gas station – which led me to take a snap of this motel sign across the road once more (top: 2004; bottom: 2005). It’s definitely the same [...]

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In the Spirit of Independence Day

June 30, 2005 Blog
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Here’s a compelling project that emerged from DesignInquiry this year. Patriotic to the core.

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The Maine Thing.

June 19, 2005 Blog
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Phew. Just returned from a great week at DesignInquiry in Maine. (Some stuff already posted here.) Lots of talks by great designers/educators/thinkers, plus studio workshops (even an acting class; erp). I think my own stuff went across pretty well, and the students working with me produced some very interesting ideas. More soon.

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