Since WWI, the image of the Jackboot has been used repeatedly as a symbol of totalitarianism and military aggression, often embellished with a symbol-just so you know who is oppressing whom.
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I've been fortunate enough to work with George Booth on three advertising campaigns, and he was even kind enough to design one of our cards of "Happy Holidays" past. Working with him opened vistas for me and redefined what collaboration should be all about. I'm going to focus on a two spot campaign we did MORE >>
No other "comic book" has been as honored in literary and cultural circles as much (and deservedly) as Art Spiegelman's Maus (I + II). It was the first comix memoir to be covered in The New York Times Book Review ("Cats, Mice and History: The Avant-Garde of the Comic Strip" by Ken Tucker), the first MORE >>
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Just shut up, New York and Europe. You're really not all that, culture-wise. This weekend will officially kick off "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980." Over the next six months, nearly 200 museum and gallery shows and hundreds of program events - featuring more than 1300 artists - will demonstrate the vibrancy and vitality MORE >>
As a wee lad I was president and sole member of The Astronaut Fan Club. It was a front, actually, to obtain countless booklets, brochures, photographs and signed letters from the Mercury, Apollo and Gemini astronauts and NASA support personnel (like "Shorty" Powers, the voice of NASA). I also "stalked," as it were, X-15 pilots. MORE >>
Specimen #18: Tara (Caesalpinia spinosa) ith its flaming beans and razor-sharp noli me tangere spines, the tree we call, simply, "tara" (Caesalpinia spinosa), is a striking figure, in any landscape. My encounter with tara was by a Pacific tide pool, on a stormy day. The fiery-hued seed pods seemed to advise that we venture no MORE >>
Design enthusiasts from around the world gathered in San Francisco on September 16th for the 2nd annual Brand New Conference - the logo and identity event hatched from Bryony Gomez-Palacio's and Armin Vit's wildly popular Brand New blog. Eager to peek into the brand-making process by industry trailblazers and pocket juicy creative nuggets, the well-turned-out MORE >>
Computer Revolution Trivia Dept.: IBM introduced the ThinkPad line of laptop computers in 1992. Back in the 1920s Thomas J. Watson, Sr, introduced "THINK" as an IBM slogan. For decades IBM distributed small notepads with the word "THINK" etched onto a brown leatherette cover to customers and employees. The name ThinkPad was suggested by IBM MORE >>
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