I was asked by dear friend and long-time colleague @zachary_petit to share my thoughts on what I think needs to be redesigned in 2024 for an article he was writing for @fastcompany. I thought about this for a long time and almost missed Zac’s deadline. Yes, there are loads of things that need to be redesigned—that MUST be redesigned. I outlined a few, alongside some of my design and branding heroes, including @thealexcenter, @pumlefebure and @emcray. My list is not exhaustive but my last and final suggestion is one I am deeply pondering and hoping for, but also aware that this needs to be a global initiative. Somehow, we have to find the strength and clarity to undertake this effort. My one big hope is on the next slide, and the link to read the entire article is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/Fastco2024
I was asked by dear friend and long-time colleague @zachary_petit to share my thoughts on what I think needs to be redesigned in 2024 for an article he was writing for @fastcompany. I thought about this for a long time and almost missed Zac’s deadline. Yes, there are loads of things that need to be redesigned—that MUST be redesigned. I outlined a few, alongside some of my design and branding heroes, including @thealexcenter, @pumlefebure and @emcray. My list is not exhaustive but my last and final suggestion is one I am deeply pondering and hoping for, but also aware that this needs to be a global initiative. Somehow, we have to find the strength and clarity to undertake this effort. My one big hope is on the next slide, and the link to read the entire article is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/Fastco2024
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
Want to learn more about branding?
Applications are due January 15, 2024 to join the @svabranding program this fall either onsite from our campus or online from your home! For any questions about the program, hybrid technology or application process, you can reach out to our department at [email protected] or DM me here. For more information, please go to the link in my bio or visit our site at branding.sva.edu
There is so much I don’t understand about our world and how we behave and treat each other. I have many, many hopes for 2024 but my whole-hearted wish for 2024 is Peace. Peace for all people, all species, everyone, everywhere. Peace.
This live episode of Design Matters with @thedailyheller and @newyorknico was recorded at the @aigadesign conference in NYC in October, and it is one of my all time favorites. A native New Yorker, my dear friend and mentor Steven Heller is also one of the most influential art directors, design thinkers, and cultural critics in the entire world. He started his illustrious career working for many sixties era counterculture periodicals before joining the New York Times as an Art Director of the Op-Ed page and the book review where he worked for over three decades. In 1997, he became Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the MFA design program at the School of Visual Arts, and also co-founded five other grad programs, including the @svabranding program I run at @svanyc (which was his idea). In addition to writing over 200 books, including his recent splendid memoir, Growing Up Underground, he’s contributed to and edited numerous design publications and is currently the Co-Owner and Editor at Large at PRINT Magazine.
It’s very possible that his love of New York may have washed off on his son Nicolas Heller. Nick is an acclaimed commercial director and documentarian, better known to his two and a half million social media followers as New York Nico, and Nick Heller loves New York City. As the New York Times‘ unofficial talent scout of New York, Nick is known for creating stories that document the real one of a kind people and places in our city, and New York loves Nick Heller right back. In 2023, he was featured on the Why We Love New York Issue of New York Magazine, the Christmas issue of Timeout New York. His commercial clients include Shake Shack, Nike, the New York Knicks, Major League Baseball, Calvin Klein, and Timberland. Nicolas’s love affair with stories has extended into narrative filmmaking seen in his latest short order film Out of Order, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. And like father, like Son, his first book, New York Nico and Friends Guide to New York City will be released in 2024.
I hope you enjoy this episode with two of my favorite people; link to listen is in my bio.
My dear friend @oliverjeffers first joined me on Design Matters in 2015, to talk about his work as an illustrator, artist, designer and author. We had a lot to talk about back then, and we have a lot more to talk about right now, because Oliver Jeffers has been BUSY. He has written and illustrated several more NYTimes best-selling books for children, helped make an animated film based on his work which won an EMMY award, and has had exhibits of his artwork, all infused with his particular brand of contagious optimism all over the world. His latest book is his first illustrated book for readers of all ages. It’s called “Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go — Our Human Story. So Far.” He joined me on the podcast to talk about his new book, how artists combine images and words, and how we can create new stories and new systems that allow everyone on this planet to flourish. Link to listen is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/dmoliverjeffers
My dear friend @oliverjeffers first joined me on Design Matters in 2015, to talk about his work as an illustrator, artist, designer and author. We had a lot to talk about back then, and we have a lot more to talk about right now, because Oliver Jeffers has been BUSY. He has written and illustrated several more NYTimes best-selling books for children, helped make an animated film based on his work which won an EMMY award, and has had exhibits of his artwork, all infused with his particular brand of contagious optimism all over the world. His latest book is his first illustrated book for readers of all ages. It’s called “Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go — Our Human Story. So Far.” He joined me on the podcast to talk about his new book, how artists combine images and words, and how we can create new stories and new systems that allow everyone on this planet to flourish. Link to listen is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/dmoliverjeffers
My dear friend @oliverjeffers first joined me on Design Matters in 2015, to talk about his work as an illustrator, artist, designer and author. We had a lot to talk about back then, and we have a lot more to talk about right now, because Oliver Jeffers has been BUSY. He has written and illustrated several more NYTimes best-selling books for children, helped make an animated film based on his work which won an EMMY award, and has had exhibits of his artwork, all infused with his particular brand of contagious optimism all over the world. His latest book is his first illustrated book for readers of all ages. It’s called “Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go — Our Human Story. So Far.” He joined me on the podcast to talk about his new book, how artists combine images and words, and how we can create new stories and new systems that allow everyone on this planet to flourish. Link to listen is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/dmoliverjeffers
My dear friend @oliverjeffers first joined me on Design Matters in 2015, to talk about his work as an illustrator, artist, designer and author. We had a lot to talk about back then, and we have a lot more to talk about right now, because Oliver Jeffers has been BUSY. He has written and illustrated several more NYTimes best-selling books for children, helped make an animated film based on his work which won an EMMY award, and has had exhibits of his artwork, all infused with his particular brand of contagious optimism all over the world. His latest book is his first illustrated book for readers of all ages. It’s called “Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go — Our Human Story. So Far.” He joined me on the podcast to talk about his new book, how artists combine images and words, and how we can create new stories and new systems that allow everyone on this planet to flourish. Link to listen is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/dmoliverjeffers
My dear friend @oliverjeffers first joined me on Design Matters in 2015, to talk about his work as an illustrator, artist, designer and author. We had a lot to talk about back then, and we have a lot more to talk about right now, because Oliver Jeffers has been BUSY. He has written and illustrated several more NYTimes best-selling books for children, helped make an animated film based on his work which won an EMMY award, and has had exhibits of his artwork, all infused with his particular brand of contagious optimism all over the world. His latest book is his first illustrated book for readers of all ages. It’s called “Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go — Our Human Story. So Far.” He joined me on the podcast to talk about his new book, how artists combine images and words, and how we can create new stories and new systems that allow everyone on this planet to flourish. Link to listen is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/dmoliverjeffers
My dear friend @oliverjeffers first joined me on Design Matters in 2015, to talk about his work as an illustrator, artist, designer and author. We had a lot to talk about back then, and we have a lot more to talk about right now, because Oliver Jeffers has been BUSY. He has written and illustrated several more NYTimes best-selling books for children, helped make an animated film based on his work which won an EMMY award, and has had exhibits of his artwork, all infused with his particular brand of contagious optimism all over the world. His latest book is his first illustrated book for readers of all ages. It’s called “Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go — Our Human Story. So Far.” He joined me on the podcast to talk about his new book, how artists combine images and words, and how we can create new stories and new systems that allow everyone on this planet to flourish. Link to listen is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/dmoliverjeffers
At the end of the year I conducted a very special live episode of Design Matters for @swissmiss’s wonderful @creativemorning’s in New York City. I got the chance to interview one of the most acclaimed designers of our time: @stefansagmeister. Stefan was born in Austria but has been based in New York since the early 1990s. Over the course of his illustrious four-decade career, he has created unorthodox, provocative multi-award winning designs for campaigns, album covers, posters, and books that upend the status quo and have taken the design discipline in new directions. He has won two Grammy Awards for his record cover work and received the 2013 AIGA Lifetime Achievement Medal. Solo exhibitions of his work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, Seoul and more. This was my fifth interview with Stefan and we talked all about his new book. Titled “Now is Better,” the book combines art, design, history, quantitative analysis, and data sets into beautiful visualizations that are part artwork and part infographic. In doing so, Stefan presents unexpectedly optimistic statistics about improvements in life expectancy, education, and…the future of humanity. We talked about all of that and lots more in this brand new episode of the podcast. Link to listen is in my bio.
I am so thrilled and honored to be joining my dear friend @mariapopova for the 2024 Universe In Verse with my wife @roxanegay74 and my ridiculously talented pal @joanaspolicewoman AND so many artistic and scientific superstars, including @jadabumrad @davidbyrneofficial @poetellenbass @rebeccasolnit and so many more! Come join us in Austin, and while you are there you can see the TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN! Roxane and I missed it when we went eclipse chasing in 2021 so hopefully we’ll see it this time!
Repost from @mariapopova
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Consider the dazzling odds: Out of the billions upon billions of possible combinations, a planet whose sole satellite is exactly 400 times smaller than its star and exactly 400 times closer, so that each time it passes between the two, it covers the face of the star perfectly, thrusting the planet into midday night, into something surreal and sublime.
Randomness seems too small a word for the staggering improbability that is a total solar eclipse. We may call it wonder. We may call it mystery. We may just fall silent before its brutal beauty, the way it presses consciousness against the gun barrel of time. Totality transported Virginia Woolf to “the birth of the world.” Annie Dillard saw in its almost unbearable strangeness a lens on “our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here.” Maria Mitchell, traveling fifteen hundred miles in her Quaker gown to lead an eclipse expedition of the world’s first women astronomers, was stunned by the “inky blackness” and the flowerlike prominences around the Sun’s disc and the silver streamers its corona sent “millions of miles into space” — tendrils of the majesty and mystery of nature, touching for a blink of time the depths of human nature with raw transcendence.
On the eve of the 2024 total solar eclipse — the last in North America for twenty years, and the first to sweep so vast a portion of the continent since Maria Mitchell’s day — The Universe in Verse returns to celebrate the majesty and mystery of the cosmos with science and poetry.
All details and tickets at themarginalian.org/the-universe-in-verse
My friend (and former @svanyc student!) @pablodelcan has created a brilliant non-A.I. art generator and I got to interview him about it on @print_mag. We talked about his inspiration for starting it (a joke), how it went viral, and his thoughts about the future of artificial art. Read more at www.printmag.com and experiment for yourself at @prompt.brush 🎨
Over the past decade it’s been gratifying to see how many more women are making movies and prestige television shows. We have a long way to go to get to parity, but at least things seem to be moving in the right direction. In this Best of 2023 episode, we’re featuring three excerpts from interviews I did with three women who have been forging remarkable careers as writers and directors.
First up is Siân Heder. Siân has written for television shows like “Orange is the New Black, and she’s written and directed two films: “Talullah,” and more recently, “Coda,” which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2022.
The extraordinary Sarah Polley was a child star on Canadian TV, and over the course of her long career she’s starred in many feature films, including “The Sweet Hereafter” and “The Weight of Water.” Since 2006 she’s been directing films; the latest of which she won an Oscar for: “Women Talking.” In the excerpt in this episode, we talked about her remarkable 2012 documentary, “Stories We Tell.”
Kyra Sedgwick is now officially a multi-hypenate. After years in front of the camera, including many years as the unforgettable Brenda Leigh Johnson on the hit television show “The Closer,” and several film collaborations with her actor/husband Kevin Bacon, she recently directed her first feature, the charming and deeply-felt “Space Oddity.” Link to listen is in my bio or here: http://tinyurl.com/dmwfilmmakers
