Last year, I assigned my first year illustration students to create a botanical, diagrammatical illustration (thinly veiling my proclivities toward science-ish, or science-looking things). I found out that at the same time, the second and third year students had been given the same assignment by teacher/designer/artist/bookmaker Ellen McMahon, only Ellen had an incredibly interesting and [...]
Last week, book artist Phil Zimmermann, who also happens to be my teacher, presented our Artists’ Books class with a list of rules created by leading furniture designer Wendell Castle. I think these ideas are totally useful, especially when a human is presented with the task of evaluating her own work. Voltaire Table designed by [...]
[NB: Hello, dear reader, and apologies for my absence in the bloggery. My excuse: this semester is insanely busy. But a ton of exciting things are in the pipeline (corporate word) and writing will recommence soon.] Last year, Ira Glass came to Tucson and blew me away with a live radio performance. That’s kind of [...]
Detail of the R Poster (Photo from Eva Jane Hogan) // Really enjoying this R Poster design-led by young gun Eva Jane Hogan // The 99% is telling us to Say No in 2010 (to humans) // Dan Lockton discusses the Design with Intent Toolkit // iA predicts excitingly/simply/prettily What’s Next in Web Design // [...]
This week I am going to be guest lecturing in the class of the lovely and talented Lisa O’Neill, who is not only a writer and teacher, but also a singer. Lisa is currently teaching an undergraduate English class and has asked me to come in and talk about graphic…things (essays, memoirs, novels). Basically, we’ll [...]
At Behance’s 99% Conference recently, Pentagram designer Michael Beirut discusses how to design and the secret to being happy. The 99% is a blog dedicated to researching and analyzing the work of the world’s most creative thinkers and then telling…us. This conference, like TED Talks, is a way of pushing ideas into the world. Only, [...]