For the first time in history, Americans don’t believe their children will enjoy a better life. This is bad news for business. The currency that sustains brands, businesses and governments is trust – and it’s never been in shorter supply. If the American consumer wrote a letter to management, it would go like this: [...]

I just finished watching “Hackers”, a old but still revealing documentary produced over a decade before the advent of the Internet. All the interviews were shot over a long week end in 1984, at the first Hackers Conference, hosted by Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly, in Sausalito, California. The event was [...]

A talented friend of mine recently posted this invitation from the Richmond city association, RVA: Show us your talent, and your creativity could be displayed all over downtown RVA. Just use the new RVA Downtown logo, or some variation of it, to create original artwork showcasing your love of RVA or what creativity in Richmond means [...]

After I posted the work of Michael Schwab for the National Park service and the Golden Era travel posters for the WPA, I came across these. They’ve already bounced around the web a bit, but I thought I’d re-post them here in one place. Created by designer / illustrator Steve Thomas, there are remarkably well-realized [...]

I just spent the day in Brooklyn with some uncommonly accomplished designers. I’m a judge at the One Show/Design. Three days of reviewing creative work from around the world began this morning. When I got home tonight I opened Facebook. I posted my admiration for a fellow judge I particularly admired – San Francisco artist, [...]

Oscar speeches are notoriously horrible things. Painful to watch. But, like videos of train wrecks or sinking ships, we can’t look away. This year proved the rule. There is only one speech I know of that honored the actor, his craft and his community in a simple, dignified few minutes. It was delivered by Dustin [...]