For 90s kids like myself, few moments throughout the year were as exciting as when the American Girl catalog appeared in the mailbox. I remember devouring every issue from cover to cover on our family… Read More »Rebranding an Icon: the Classic American Girl Look Gets a Fresh Spin
Combine the imaginations of Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson and premier caricaturist John Kascht, throw in an enigmatic story without a plot or trigger for illustration … and the results will surprise everyone, including… Read More »The Daily Heller: A Mysterious Way to Make a Book Titled “The Mysteries”
This industry op-ed was written by YuJune Park and Caspar Lam of Synoptic Office. Art is still seen, for the most part, as something that relies on being viewed in person and as a cultural… Read More »Self-Curation is the Next Frontier for Art Galleries
One of the best design books of 2023 was CENTERED: People and Ideas Diversifying Design, a remarkable collection of essays, interviews, and stories published by Chronicle Books, and compiled and edited by Professor Kaleena Sales.… Read More »This is a Prototype: Kaleena Sales & Sadie Red Wing
Drew Friedman does likenesses in the tradition of Drew Friedman. Suggesting he is Vermeer in the Catskills has witty, ironic ring, but his classic depictions of famous and forgotten Jewish comedians is more like da… Read More »The Daily Heller: The Movie About the Artist Who Makes Gold From Borscht
Image licensed via Adobe Stock If you’re on Instagram or Facebook, Meta is about to start scraping your images to train its AI. So many creatives are turning to anti-AI social platform Cara instead. But… Read More »Everyone’s talking about Cara… but is it any good?