2010

Unexpected perks

December 31 This piece for the Weekend Arts section of today's New York Times illustrates some of the surprise benefits of...

Why 1938?

December 21 Years ago, I acquired a collection of old matchbook covers and, taken by their sophisticated simplicity, vowed to...

Mock, faux or sham, you decide.

November 14 ...or is imitation the sincerest form of Flaherty?        I once read an article by a...

Looking Forward to 2020

November 8 Sometimes a deadline just sneaks up on you. This one was for last Thursday but, by Tuesday I was still waiting for...

This years' best business books

October 12 For a commission for Strategy + Business' annual book review issue, the fun part was reading 80 pages on...

Letter as Image/Image as Letter

September 13 A while back, I was surprised and honored to be part of an exhibition called Letter as Image/Image as Letter, which...

Coffee, Tea or Chablis?

September 7 Ah, the perils of First Class air travel these days. If it isn't enough of a trial to have to watch the grim...

My first tattoo!

July 8 I always feel a little naked when I go to Williamsburg (or almost anywhere else these days) since tattoos have...

Copyright Alliance interview

June 30 For those who may have entertained the possibility that I was, indeed, a pompous, arrogant little twit, take 5...

Electric Fantasy

June 16 I began modelling and rendering 3D electric fans early in 2007 although, the sketches that prompted this appear in...

Più inutile non si può

June 14 As previously mentioned, one of my main inspirations for getting into this drawing gig in the first place was to...

It's not easy being green

April 23 I celebrated Earth Day number 40 with a magazine cover assignment featuring a story on economics and the...

My lucky number

April 14 Being allowed to draw pictures all day and not get into trouble is something I wouldn't have even dared to...

Giving designers better illustration skills

April 2 Just found this brief email exchange from Last July while I was teaching in the Hartford Art School's MFA...

The Lite shines again

March 29 After moving to New York hoping to get a job as a graphic designer, no one was more surprised than I to discover I...

Drawgers take the stage

March 12 Three of Drawger's finest held a standing-room-only audience in rapt attention as they presented their work,...

A head of our times

March 9 It feels good to be among those who always give freely of their time and energies when help is needed. I can't...

Just in case

February 23 Talk around town is, the "adjustments" to our business fed by changes in technology and multiplied by the...

Just make it look pretty

February 10 I, as much as anyone, love to put on my thinking cap and solve an arcane, ethereal problem that can barely be...

A little bit country...

February 7 Once upon a time, I received the honor of being asked to do a poster for New York is Book Country. An...

I shot the serif

January 17 This past Saturday I had the honor of judging the Type Directors Club annual typeface competition and the privilege...

Wake up and smell the coffee

January 4 Much of my inspiration comes from imagery and style that technology has rendered obsolete. I treasure anachronistic...