Vladimir I. Lenin was a driving force behind the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became the first great dictator of the Soviet Union.
Read moreCollege Book Arts Association exhibition
In January 2018, the College Book Arts Association held their annual conference in Philadelphia. One of the events was an exhibition with some interesting requirements.
Read moreCBAA splinter group workshop
Three staff from the library at the University of Colorado / Boulder were headed to the College Book Arts Association Conference in Philadelphia. They emailed to ask if they could jump over a day early and do a Lead Graffiti workshop. We looked up their library's holding and saw out they had a deluxe clamshell copy of our Boxcar Poems 1 - 12, a meander book, we did a couple of years ago.
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How ink explains whatever
Maybe we can't get Stephen Hawking, but we should be able to get someone who at least has won the Nobel Prize.
Read moreFewer dingbats holiday card / 2017
Our good friend, Christine, came to the studio to do her holiday card. We loved it so much we asked if we could use it as the basis for our Lead Graffiti card.
Read moreBooks and The Last Jedi
In the movie, The Last Jedi, there was a very nice reference to The Sacred Jedi Texts, shown in the movie still above. We're wondering who got the chance to make those. We thought we might get the chance to make a book that would be used in a Miller Lite commercial once. Ended up not happening, but it was nice thinking about it.
Read moreHoliday card workshop
It is always interesting to see what someone does when they come in without any notion of what it is that they want. Typically, we will decide among the participants as to colors. For this workshop, the colors were silver and teal.
Read moreYear-End Show posters from Visual Communications
I stumble across printed samples and photos of some work that was part of my life back in my Visual Communications days. One of the perks that came from being a designer working for clients and doing a lot of printing work (and I tended to work with only 1 or 2 printers) was that I could leverage those printers into printing VC stuff for free.
Year-End Show poster / 1979
If there was a creative moment that I personally started to think that the design program could have national recognition it was with this piece. It was the copy more than the design of the piece. The text which I wrote on the bus coming back from a New York field trip. This is where the idea of the review process to get into the program originated. The text reads...
In the beginning there are 60 sophomores.
They come as designers, illustrators
typographers and design consultants.
It was more difficult than they imagined.
These sophomores are still with us.
The 60 become 30.
Those that leave, leave for a number
of reasons: the work, the field,
the pressure, just to do something else.
Those that stay, stay for the same reasons.
These juniors are still with us.
The 30 become 15.
The reasons are still the same
but the reward becomes greater.
The excitement of the field becomes
a part of their work.
Finally they become the designers, illustrators,
typographers and design consultants they
thought they started as.
These are the seniors that have stayed.
APHA Calendar / August 2018
Several people have complained about the calendars not being useful and that they should be more gridlike. I suspect they were talking about some of my more experimental months over the past several years.
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