I attended a lecture earlier this week, sponsored by the Society of Publication Designers (SPD) – wow, those magazine people can party! Just kidding. But there was a lot of schmoozing. Anyway, Arem Duplessis, art director of the New York Times Sunday Magazine gave a good talk and showed tons of work, going back to his early days at SPIN magazine, on through some of the most recent covers at the Sunday mag. I was running kinda late, Read more »
We recently hosted studio visits for students entering Pratt Institute. When I revealed that I was on campus 29 years ago, one group was sort of shocked. I think part of their reaction had to do with the fact that I didn’t look that old (I hope). The other part was amazement that I’ve been a practitioner all this time – and I think that provided encouragement as they move closer to their own careers. I also learned that this new generation had no idea of how graphic design work was produced back then. Read more »
Wireless Application Protocol or WAP. Never heard of it? Well get use to it, because that’s where this portable world is going.
Earlier this year, while vacationing at Florida, I dropped and killed my iPod. I went out and got an iTouch and little did I know that this would change the way I view the internet. Read more »
High speed train, great image. High speed internet… what exactly does that look like? Bits of data passing unseen through cables or via satellite is a challenge to represent visually. Just what does data in the act of transferring look like? How about an email transmitting around the world? What about “high bandwidth fiber optic infrastructure” or “broadband connectivity”? Explaining our increasingly tech-saturated world visually is a challenge because we never actually see the things that happening. Read more »
Is the printed piece going by the way of the dinosaur?
The trend over the past several years has been startling. In business for 17 years and in the communications industry for 23 years, I have seen the printed piece severely diminished. Is this the evolution of communications? Is this to save money? Is this to save trees? Is the printed brochure still relevant anymore?
