Two quotes from my essay “Match Prints: Barney Bubbles vs. Paula Scher” are included in the introduction to the new Paula Scher: Works monograph published by Unit Editions. Scher is a senior partner in the New York office of Pentagram, and was featured recently in the Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design.
Issue 1, Volume 1 of Dialectic, the first peer-reviewed journal of visual communication design thought leadership, education and practice is live online and available for purchase through Amazon. It’s produced by the AIGA Design Educators Community, and I serve of the journal’s Editorial Board.
When visiting in Kitakyushu Japan, my daughter Emma and I would see these two bear-like figures all around town in different situations. From the varied contexts we couldn’t tell what they were promoting or relaying—though they didn’t seem to be at all commercial—or if they were bears at all. Sometime the white one appeared on …
As a private service, I’ve created a Tumblr site with a wide selection of my art and graphic design works going back nearly 30 years (though only one thing there—the announcement I designed for my first solo art exhibit—is that old). Works aren’t strictly grouped chronologically or by discipline so viewing through the “Archive” page …