Personal Projects
Ideas are what creative people in any profession are all about. We can't help ourselves. We're always observing and analyzing and coming up with new and better ways to do…
Design/Build
image credit: Ethan Labowitz Design/Build is a trend that I'm seeing more and more in the environmental graphics work that I do. Clients are increasingly looking for the turn-key approach…
Product Licensing Gone Wrong
A tale of invention, greed and bad timing: The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold by Bob Parks for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The story shines a light on some of the best…
Holiday Re-run
I'm taking the week off from just about everything, but thought I'd offer up something from the archives that you might enjoy if you missed it the first time around…
Over the Transom – Vol. 4
A collection of follow-ups and links to some stories and developments that I found interesting or important in the past week, that I think you’ll find worth reading about too.…
Design Fallow
Sometimes I find that I have to learn lessons over and over before they finally sink in. I relearned an important one late last week when a client requested a…
The Schedule is the Problem
When signing on for a project, no matter what kind, a key resource is always time, as expressed through a schedule. Anybody who has even a little control over what…
Are You Listening?
If you're a designer, you're a problem solver. You have to be, that's what designers do all day -- solve problems. Designers generally have a good ability to take the…