If you were asked ‘What’s your favorite piece of graphic design”, how would you answer? Steven Heller’s newest book, I HEART DESIGN, provides the answer from a bunch of typographers, teachers, scholars, writers and, well...

Last fall Eleftheria Papis did a terrific cover story on us for Adweek. I never published it here, but chose to do so today as I am starting to keep more of this stuff and other thoughts on this blog. I sort of suck at interviews ( I babble ), but as I don’t sound [...]

In the 1994 the Bugs Bunny short “What’s Opera Doc” was voted the greatest cartoon of all time. The film was the anchor of the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals. There are many reason for this, including the brilliant mockery of Wagner’s ponderous operatic style, the unbridled glee with which the [...]

In 1919, Alex Osborn joined with Bruce Fairchild Barton and Roy Sarles Durstine to form the BDO advertising agency. He was largely responsible for the 1928 merger of BDO (Barton, Durstine & Osborn) with the George Batten Company to create BBDO. After years of success and having survived the Great Depression, BBDO underwent a crisis [...]

It’s on! So now we’re figuring out the logistics to bring the remarkable exhibit “Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010” to The Art Directors Club Gallery this June. It’s a cohesive selection of 153 amazing posters presenting an overview of diverse creative strategies employed by many countries working within their own [...]

It’s Buckminster Fuller’s most elegant thought. As powerful as it is succinct. If I were to embrace one idea that would inform my team’s work for 2011, this comes the closest. Among his many accomplishments, Fuller perfected – and popularized – the geodesic dome. Although he characterized himself as a misfit, and was expelled from [...]