I’ve been a freelancer the majority of my creative career, first as a designer, and then as a copywriter. I purposefully chose this DIY path for the freedom it entailed (hello, coffee shop-turned-offices and makeup-free workdays). But for all the…
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Entrepreneur Magazine: Eye-Popping Branding
How do you communicate quality and craftsmanship through branding when those attributes have been so over-touted (and under-realized) they’ve lost virtually all meaning to consumers? Check out my article below on how San Francisco-based Chen Design Associates helped startup The Brownie…
Communication Arts Magazine: Design Book Reviews
For the latest issue of Communication Arts Magazine, I was invited to review two awesome books. The first is Game Changers, a mammoth retrospective highlighting the creative rebels that evolved advertising from the 1950s to today. The second is Loveworks, an insightful book chock full…
Woohoo! Copywriting Projects Win Awards in HOW Magazine
I’m super excited to share that I have TWO copywriting projects featured in HOW Magazine’s Promotion and Design Annual! The first is the utterly inventive Creative (un)Blocks (image below), a self-promotion for Neenah Paper designed by Chen Design Associates. It was selected…
Entrepreneur Magazine: The Whitney’s Responsive Identity & Pentagram Packaging
For the October issue of Entrepreneur Magazine, I chat up Amsterdam graphic design firm Experimental Jetset and the Whitney Museum on the making of the institution’s new identity. I also had the awesome opportunity to kick-off the magazine’s first “Packaging of The Month”…
Communication Arts: Book Review
For the latest issue of Communication Arts (one of my favorite design magazines ever!), I had the awesome opportunity to review design editor Mason Currey’s new blog-turned-book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, which snapshots the daily routines and habits of over…
Entrepreneur Magazine: A Site That Goes Down Smooth
Super excited to share my first (of many!) design articles for Entrepreneur Magazine! It’s about D.C. creative firm Design Army’s awesome web design for Green Hat Gin. CHECK OUT MY ARTICLE BELOW! (p.s. Got a design story to share on how your…
Communication Arts Magazine: Design Book Reviews
For the latest issue of Communication Arts, I had the awesome opportunity to review two stellar design books dripping with creative inspiration: Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design and Paula Scher MAPS. Check out the reviews below (click image…
PRINT Magazine Article – Book Review of Vogue: The Covers
Strike a pose – specifically, a comfy reading position. As we ring in the New Year, iconic magazine Vogue invites us to look back on 120-years of style with their luxe coffee table archive, “Vogue: The Covers.” And just as crazy-excited “Sex and the…
PRINT Magazine Article – Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
We all have that one person we’d love to work with — that dream creative collaborator. Well, imagine you’ve just been assigned to work with the Edward Gorey. Holy cannoli — that would be insane! And not only is it the most…
HOW Magazine Article: The Daily Taps into the Future of Design
There’s something so new and super-cool happening in the world of design–but shocker-of-shockers–it’s not happening in the webosphere. It’s exploding on the iPad. The Daily, a magazine-meets-newspaper-meets-the most wow-worthy technology, is taking design to some crazy new heights. Although you can…
Communication Arts Magazine: A Retail Shop That Sells – Digital Typefaces?
Can the process of buying digital typefaces be any less inspired? There’s just nothing inherently exciting, creative, or cool about it. You purchase, download, and install. Whoop-de-do. Sure, online font shops are an undeniably fantastic resource for designers, but for…
Print Mag Article: The Greatest Graphic Design Show on Earth
Pack up your pixels and don’t forget your fishing pole – we’re headed to the Land of 10,000 Lakes. This October 22nd, Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center is presenting Graphic Design: Now in Production, one of the largest graphic design exhibitions in the…
T Magazine Article: Tattly’s Designer Tattoos
Have you ever had the desire to get the word “mother” tattooed on your forearm, but were more concerned about it being properly kerned in Helvetica than about how it would make your mother totally freak? Tattly, a new e-shop, features…
HOW Magazine interview with designers Chip Kidd, Paula Scher, Stefan Sagmeister, and Robynne Raye
I recently spoke with an extremely talented graphic designer who was struggling with a book cover design. She confided, “I’m starting to feel like I suck as a designer because I can’t figure out a solution to this problem.” “Oh,…
Print Magazine: Why CMYBacon is Smokin’
With a name like CMYBacon how can you not be intrigued? Although Designer Martin Refsal has to “suppress my inner-geek from time to time to ensure that I don’t post too many things about Star Wars and Legos” he is the…
Print Magazine: The Letter Collector
What is it about hand-made letters that utterly rocks our world? Are we just so bored with reading and seeing everything digitally nowadays? Or is it because working with type is such a huge component to our jobs as designers…
Print Magazine: Typography is HERE
“Widows and orphans give us sleepless nights.” In any other sense, that phrase might conjure up images of black spiders or a certain little redhead named Annie. But when you realize the words (about those annoyingly short words or lines at…
Print Magazine: Paper Theatrics / Alfalfa Studio
Alfalfa Studio could not have been cast more perfectly as the design studio of choice for innovative Texas-based theatre company Amphibian Stage Productions. Bringing the awesome three-dimensional quality of live theatre to the flat, two-dimensional space of poster design is no easy…
FastCompany: Chermayeff & Geismar on New NBC Universal Identity
Amid all the hue and cry over the new NBC Universal corporate logo, there are two voices actually worth listening to — those of Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, the designers of NBC’s beloved peacock. “I think the new one is…