Execution Final projects are the Super Bowls of an academic course. They require the challengers to muster everything they’ve got. They test not only knowledge and its application, but also a student’s…
Things I Didn’t Learn in Grad School: Part 2
In our late teens and early twenties most of our time is spent trying to achieve. Achieve just about anything. Anything that will help us better ourselves and our futures. For some…
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,…
Things I Didn’t Learn in Grad School: Part 1
With a title like that you would think I was about to start demolishing my grad school experience, and though it was not exactly ideal, it planted many seeds. To be fair,…
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…
Students of Web
Every once in a while, I have a stellar class of students who catch on to something quicker than any others before them. This year’s senior class (our students come in together…
Back to the Drawing Table.
Just a quick update. Now that my tenure packet has been submitted, this lovely new site is up, and my client work is winding down, I finally have time to get back…
Love Where You Work
A disturbing stat I recently read about the American work force is that 88.5% of males and 66% of females work over 40 hours a week. This equals out to 137 hours…
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…