Category — News

My thoughts on the late designer Jackie Casey can be found on Eye magazine’s new blog. The post is in response to Elizabeth Resnick’s piece in the latest issue of Eye, where she (like me) names Casey as most unappreciated in the field. An excellent on line gallery of her posters can be found here (via AisleOne).

Welcome to the revised version of my site, now structured as a blog. As does every blog, I’ll be posting my news, comments, observations, and announcements on subjects in the various categories ranged elsewhere on this page. A particular feature will be a return to critical writing about graphic design, as I did for ten years in the pages of Emigre magazine. When that journal came to an end, I set aside the notebook that I kept of ideas for and fragments of a number of possible writings. I didn’t foresee any comparable interest in the writing I was doing. The subsequent years have affirmed that conclusion (with some gratifying exceptions). One article did make it out of the notebook and into the world—“The Resistance”—but I wasn’t feeling it. Most importantly, continued writing like this offered few—if any—tangible career benefits (something I’ll detail in a future post after my UCDA conference presentation). [Read more →]

I will be attending the University & College Designers Association’s fourth national conference for Design Educators on May 29-31, 2008 in DeKalb, Illinois. I’ll participate in a panel discussion, “Gettin’ R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the Academy: What Constitutes Graphic Design Research” with Daniel Jasper, and Steven McCarthy. My topic will be critical writing as research. A revised and expanded version of my comments will (eventually) appear here.

My profile of illustrator/designer Mark Andresen is included in the spring 2008 issue (#67) of the international design review Eye. The article, titled “Pesky Illustrator,” looks at the former New Orleans resident and Hurricane Katrina refugee. Andresen’s work has been published in New Orleans: As It Was (Gingko Press), and he’s the creator of the typeface Not Caslon.