I had a colleague who used to say that the two best things about teaching were Summer and Christmas. I just wrapped up my 10th year in the profession and I’ve learned that…
Creativity
Times they are a changin’
The pandemic did for most of us what had been needing to be done for quite some time. It shuffled our lives by shaking the snow globes that imprisoned us. It brought…
Presidential
In academia there are ranks or positions for just about everything. There are major divisions of faculty and staff, and each division comes with a million different subdivisions and many different ranks…
2020: Retrospective
2020, Twenty-Twenty, Two Zero Two Zero, Dumpster Fire. There are a lot of different names for the previous year. I could write a book about it, and I’m fairly certain that there…
New and Improved.
Welcome back everyone! What a wild year right? I apologize for not writing more posts during this time, but honestly it has been really hard to find time to with the difficulties…
Through the Eyes of a Nice Guy
Drawing has been many things for me throughout my life. As a kid I used my drawing skills as an attempt to standout, and to impress girls on the bus and in…
Unconventional Illustrating: Part 2
There is a lot of power in a photograph. Native Americans and other early civilizations who were exposed to the medium recognized this and were so terrified by it, that many of…
Celebrity Designers
In just about all aspects of our lives there is some form of celebrity. There are famous people for just about everything. Design isn’t any different. Though as with many occupational celebrities,…
Unconventional Illustrating
As a professor with a degree in both the studio arts and graphic design I always cherish the opportunities to create moments where those two areas really get to collide. In my…
Failure.
Our ability to create innovative solutions to art and design problems is finite. How we speak and approach art or what I call the “creative vernacular” is typically limited to what we…