Hand Out

I recently spoke to a group of junior/senior graphic design students at my alma mater. I presented to the AIGA St. Louis community late spring commemorating my Fellow Award honor and would retool the presentation for this audience. This was somewhat exciting considering I graduated there 20 years ago. The presentation theme was about my creative path, in general, how I veered off and started new paths, and followed paths that would lead to new opportunities. For obvious reasons, I used my hand as the dominant visual but incorporated the language of palm reading as a metaphor. Needless to say, the poster was a hit and now a template for future presentation promotions.

Weed & Feed

If anyone out there has any question that Missouri is a swing state - look no further. When our second-grader came home from school with his 'political action' poster and we saw that great footnote at the bottom, I realized these commercials and radio spots impact more than just mom and dad!

I Heart NY

We recently returned from an incredible trip to NYC. Many sites to see, restaurants to dine and things to buy. What I find most fascinating about this city is access to anything almost 24/7 and the fact that New Yorkers pretty much know everything there is to know about everything. I see a future for our son, Reid, here someday!

Hello, Fellow

Tomorrow night I'm being honored by the local chapter of the AIGA. I've been working for weeks on my presentation, created in Keynote - an incredible program by my standards. I'll try to post some samplings later. I've shared it with a few colleagues who were stunned to learn I used Keynote and not Flash - I guess that reinforces what I've been saying all along: "you can teach an old dog new tricks." Many revelations have come from producing this presentation - it's sort of a retrospect of my career and the path I took (or didn't in some cases) to get where I am today - resulting in why I've been given such an honor. The presentation lasts about 25 minutes and at the end there's a sequence of the many logos I created over the last 20 years. If you've worked in Keynote to achieve such a sequence you have to layer every logo on top of the other and plug in the seconds for fade in, fade out, etc. This beautiful collage came from that sequence. We'll be using in some new promotions soon...

Comp Time 2

We recently produced a 110-page (french-fold 55 leaf) book comp in one day! Created for an incredible man, chancellor emeritus William H. Danforth of Washington University in St. Louis, it features letters he wrote to the University community every Thanksgiving from 1974-1995. I quickly documented how we assembled the book throughout the day/night. It's the largest comp we ever created in the shortest amount of time and it's a great object we love to hold (but not too much - after a few months and many hands, it's slowly falling apart!)