My longest-running magazine subscription is for the Atlantic (Monthly), going back some 20+ years. I can’t recall exactly where I first encountered it, likely someone I was staying with or visiting frequently had a subscription. Though I was just out of art school, I ponied up for my own subscription when my borrowed access ended. [...]
The Means by Which We Find Our Way
I am included in the new book The means by which we find our way; Observations on design, published by Ramp Press. The book documents the exhibition of the same name, organized by David Gardener and Andrea Wilkinson of the School of Media Arts, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand. Contributors were sent an [...]
Do Not Read Me I Am Boring
On Stefan Sagmeister’s Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
The arguments these artists mount to the detraction of beauty come down to a single gripe: Beauty sells, and although their complaints usually are couched in the language of academic radicalism, they do not differ greatly from my grandmother’s haut bourgeois prejudices against people [...]
Mark Andresen profile in Eye
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 [...]
