Graphic designer Neville Brody is from England and not really a household name in the American cultural landscape (unless you are a designer as well). However, if you are a fan of print magazines you have …

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. I was …

With the fairly resent resurgence of "maximalism" and experimental digital typography in graphic design, I was reminded of one of my earliest influences — The Designer's Republic out of Sheffield, England. With their formative aesthetic from …

I like a wide variety of music and pride myself on having an eclectic taste. However, there are certain bands from certain eras that I must confess have had a profound impact on me. This is …

I have been a fan of (and inspired by) Jennifer Sterling's work for as long as I have known of her. I believe it was way back in the late 1990s (or possibly into the early …

To say Steve Jobs was a complicated man is an understatement. The world of course knows of his business acumen, marketing savvy, and technological innovations. We all also now know how difficult of a personality and …

ICONS, published by TASCHEN, is a dynamic retrospective of the extensive collaborative project between NIKE, Inc. and Virgil Abloh. ICONS explores how the partnership works to unify all the intangible cultural threads connected to sneakers. The …

A little collage series I made dedicated to China Machado. She was a Chinese-born American fashion model, editor, and television producer. She was the first model of color to appear in a major American fashion magazine, …

The Graphic Design Club of Chicago has an open call to designers. Their description goes like this: "We’re asking you to submit a poster using the official Chicago typeface, Big Shoulders, that communicates what Chicago means …