Wednesday July 14th, 2010, 9:59 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
Disney’s newest Nicholas Cage movie, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, opens this week. No, it will not be as remarkable as its inspiration, Walt Disney’s original The Sorcerer’s...
Wednesday July 14th, 2010, 8:57 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
This is no fantasy. No careless product of wild imagination. No, my friends, these are matters of undeniable fact...
Thursday July 8th, 2010, 11:53 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I...
Wednesday June 2nd, 2010, 11:30 AM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
I heard it would be gruesome.
The Santa Maria della Concezione Church displays, in macbre detail, the bones of over 4,000 friars collected between 1528...
Saturday May 8th, 2010, 10:51 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
Christopher Simmons invited me to write something for his upcoming book on good design called, well...
Saturday May 8th, 2010, 8:13 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
The linked clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969.
The camera is running at...
Friday January 23rd, 2009, 2:00 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
The legendary adman David Ogilvy told his clients that, “Promise, large promise, is the soul of advertising.” But in a faltering economy where trust is...
Thursday February 5th, 2009, 5:21 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
Davos, Switzerland: What is good design? It’s a seemingly simple question, that’s surprisingly difficult to answer. The more you think about it, the more...
Monday February 9th, 2009, 11:25 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
This time last year Creativity magazine had chosen to honor the iPhone rather than an ad campaign. It marked the ad industry’s arrival at a tipping-point....
Monday February 16th, 2009, 3:38 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
There is an edifying piece in the New York Times, today.
The canary, or the chickadee, is singing in the mine.
When are we going to really...
Thursday February 19th, 2009, 11:20 AM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
A few weeks ago, on a Facebook status no less, I praised Slumdog Millionaire. Several of my friends from India were quite surprised at my...
Monday February 23rd, 2009, 8:27 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
Do you think designers have a responsibility towards shaping our society’s conscience? How can design compel disaffected audiences to take action on social issues? How...
Monday March 16th, 2009, 12:01 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
The Los Angeles Times has an uncommonly thorough story on a student-faculty alliance to address design and sustainability on the entire campus of Art Center in Pasadena. Worth...
Sunday March 22nd, 2009, 10:15 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
I just made my final visit to the Virgin Megastore. It closes next week.
A clerk was stacking the remaining books on the floor. I told...
Friday April 3rd, 2009, 9:31 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
In 1963, Theodore Levitt wrote a prescient essay in the Harvard Business Review called “Creativity is Not Enough. In short, he outlines the real conditions...
Friday September 25th, 2009, 9:33 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
Sitting on my desk in New York are prototypes of two devices that make contaminated water safe to drink. For flood victims or people in...
Saturday November 28th, 2009, 5:56 PM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
Last week I attended the World Economic Forum’s second Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai. There were over 700 experts and thought leaders from...
Friday December 4th, 2009, 12:38 AM
Posted by: Brian Collins
Posted by: Brian Collins
Last year Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne invited me to write a forward to their brand new book about advertising art direction and design.
So I...
