Twenty years ago, a few months after my dad died, Susan and I cooked our first holiday dinner for my extended family, at my cousin’s house in Virginia. It involved a twenty-two pound artisanal turkey… Read More »Poor Man’s Feast: A Sort of Chicken We Call Fish
We’re ending out the month of November with the second part of my conversation with the one and only Phillip J. Clayton. (If you missed the first part of this interview, check it out here.)… Read More »Revision Path: Phillip J. Clayton (Part Two)
The New York Times recently crossed an invisible line. Previously, when reporting on Donald J. Trump, the Times wisely eschewed making direct comparisons between the former president/2024 candidate and Adolf Hitler (or between Trump’s oratory… Read More »The Daily Heller: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
We chatted with Ed Little, director of the London studio Regular Practice, about putting design at the heart of strategy, how the nature of branding is (fast) evolving, and what agencies need to do to… Read More »Ed Little of Regular Practice on what the next wave of branding design will look like
Merry Christmas To You by Elena Boils It’s Small Business Saturday this weekend, a timely reminder to celebrate and support independent creatives leading up to Christmas. To show solidarity, we have assembled a selection of… Read More »The best festive cards for Christmas 2023 by independent artists and designers
Often, the key to a visual identity is a clear concept developed thoughtfully. And the new designs for National Landscapes by Nice and Serious fall straight into that category. Never heard of National Landscape? Don’t… Read More »National Landscapes’ new identity is a simple concept, beautifully executed