One of the many many things that is cool about being a writer who works with designers is seeing the interaction that often happens between text and design. I’ve always been interested in the visual quality of words, how linguistic and visual languages inform and sculpt each other, and how the brain responds to both.
Additionally, [...]

Recently, I organized a letterpress workshop for AIGA with Jim Sherraden and Brad Vetter from Hatch Show Print. If you’ve never heard of Hatch Show Print before, I’m sure you’ve seen their work at some point in your life. Hatch is an old fashioned letterpress shop in Nashville, TN that has been in existence since [...]

Robert Rauschenberg has been a huge influence and inspiration in my life/art/design. I just found out that he passed away last month. He is one of those people I would want to have at my table if I could invite any 10 people over.
I thought this was a nice excerpt from the NYT article. It [...]

These photographs from Mike Stimpson are fantastic. He’s a photographer who does a lot of macro shots of scenes that are setup using Legos. In this particular set, he’s recreated a selection of classic and historic photographs. Check out the gallery. Each photograph also includes information on how he recreated the photos, including what equipment [...]

I attended the Anish Kapoor opening last night at the ICA which I have to recommend highly. Kapoor is an Indian-born British installation artist whose work stretches the spacial and perceptive boundaries. I was smiling the whole time.

I always wonder, however, how one sets up a show such as this. So many of Kapoor’s pieces [...]