Introducing the fourth chapter of Project 2 by The 2Craigs—a year-long visual relay between photographer Craig Cutler and illustrator Craig Frazier. Each piece picks up where the last leaves off, shaped not by conversation or… Read More »Project 2 | Dialogue: The 2Craigs
There was a time when speed was the strategy. For digital media, especially in sports, velocity became synonymous with relevance. Publish first. Optimize later. Feed the algorithm. In that environment, design often followed function; templated,… Read More »EssentiallySports and the Design Case for Longevity
“At the start of the COVID pandemic, everyone was doing a lot of soul-searching,” writes Houston-based Jennifer Blanco, the creative director and founding partner of Field of Study. “If you weren’t baking bread, you were… Read More »The Daily Heller: What is a Sucessful Design Business When All You Want to Do is Design?
Few things are more rewarding to a leader than walking by a conference room and hearing laughter. At our peak at Chiat New York, I could pass three separate conference rooms and hear it spilling… Read More »The Best Medicine
What Can Designers Do When Heroes Fail? The tragedy of Cesar Chavez swells and reverberates like a social atom bomb. There are the late United Farm Workers leader’s victims, including children, molested or raped by… Read More »We Don’t Need Another Hero
There is a quiet but consequential shift happening inside creative agencies, one that has less to do with technology itself and more to do with how agencies are choosing to respond to it. For the… Read More »M+C Saatchi Bets on Design in the AI Era