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File Under Nowhere: The Photo Albums of Rudy VanderLans (from their “Visual Types” catalog), “Skilling Saws and Absorbent Catalogs” (from Emigre #48), and “Seeing and Reading (A Viewer’s Guide to Periodic Literature)” from IDEA magazine #314 are featured in the “Essays” sections of the Emigre web site.

Two posts as moderator of Field Trip, the blog component of the Schools of Thoughts 3 graphic design education conference, March 2007

“The Resistance,” an article for Voice: AIGA Journal of Design in January 2007. In addition to the postings along with the article, the essay received a variety of responses on other blogs, from “interesting,” and “well-written,” to “[the article] irresponsibly mischaracterized and championed unhealthy versions of [design/business and designer/client] relationships.”

The essay “An Instructor of Concern” appeared in Voice in February 2005.

“The Printer’s Devil’s Dictionary,” a guest post on the Speak Up design blog, April 2007

“Martin Venezky’s Beautiful Melancholy,” an entry on the Design Observer blog, August 2005