There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t think of producer Sandy Stern’s Best First Feature acceptance speech at the 2000 American Spirit Awards. The film was Being John Malkovich. Notably, Charlie Kauffman… Read More »The Failure Story That’s Stuck With Me
This is the story of how my book cover came to be, which is not only a story that includes Oliver Jeffers but also turns out to be a slightly Oliver-Jeffers-ish story. (Side note: I… Read More »My Book Cover Has Its Own Story
This week’s guest is Erin Sarofsky. Erin is an internationally heralded creative, regularly chosen by brand and entertainment titans to lead their most artful storytelling projects. Erin launched Sarofsky Corp in 2009, in Chicago’s West Loop. The firm… Read More »DesignThinkers Podcast: Erin Sarofsky
Here is a important remembrance of politics past . . . This rare booklet published by the International Workers Order excerpts portions of a 1942 speech by FDR’s vice president, Henry A. Wallace. As the… Read More »Social Ideals and Social Realism, Gellert Style
Reading can and should be both a mirror and a window. It benefits us all to read far and wide, in and out of our own experience. But the effort to ban books continues to… Read More »Support Banned Books with PRINT
Pienso is seeking to make AI more accessible for ordinary companies. Now a new visual identity crafted by Pentagram is helping them pursue this mission. Say the word AI to creatives, and for many of… Read More »Pentagram designs identity for Pienso, a tech firm seeking to democratise AI