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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.

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.

Of Pageants and Publicity

August 22, 2006 Uncategorized

John Berger, in his classic book Ways of Seeing, writes eloquently about the often bizarre juxtapositions that occur between editorial and advertising messages. Here, for example, the unfolding news story about the capture of a suspect in the murder of a young pageant queen sits adjacent to an ad for the movie Little Miss Sunshine [...]