When your work is recognized by the design community it is wonderful. This year it is especially great to be short-listed at SPD for work that goes in new directions. Among the finalists in the category of Illustration: Single page / Spread is Six Portraits of Mitt Romney done with Mary Parsons AD and Kit Rachlis, … Read more
Last Week I spent two wonderful days at High Point University in High Point, NC. I was invited by the Design Department, Allan Beaver, Artist in Residence. I attended several classes, got to see what the students were doing (some truly amazing and beautiful work). Late in the day I gave a talk and demonstration … Read more
Last week I was lucky to be invited by the Society of Illustrators ED Anelle Miller to mingle with colleagues from the Middle East and Uzbekistan visiting under a program run by Christopher King of the US State Department. During a time of great political upheaval in the region, in fact on the day when … Read more
It’s hard to forget the political conventions I’ve covered. But sometimes, I feel, it would be a good idea. Today, conventions seem, on the surface at least, about less and less. They mostly exist as a fancy feast for fat cats and the creatures of the media industrial complex. They try to hold the country’s … Read more
Watch Meet cartoonist Steve Brodner on PBS. See more from Need To Know. Recently when the wonderful Matt Wuerker’s editorial cartooning Pulitzer triggered a hit job on the art by a writer at Slate my old pals at Need to Know decided to investigate the issue of cartooning on the web. This introduced me to … Read more
