Posted By: Petrula Vrontikis
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
How do you strike the balance between exuberant young artist with vision, supporting cast member, ever-ready helper, and frustrated doormat?
Posted By: Michael Bierut
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
One week after I graduated from college in Ohio, I moved to New York with my new wife Dorothy and began working as a design assistant at Vignelli Associates ...
Posted By: Michael Patrick Cronan
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
Payment comes in different forms. Time, energy, intellectual attention and patience are all legal tender; most dues are paid in combinations of those items ...
Posted By: Deanna Kuhlmann-Leavitt
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
When I was in the sixth grade, I entered my first national design competition, a birthday card to Sprout (Green Giant's side-kick), and won. It was like that scene in Christmas Story when the giant box shows up long after the dad had entered the contest ...
Posted By: Bill Grant
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
I suppose “due paying” means different things to different people. Where I come from, due paying is a part of everyday life. I grew up in Dalton, Georgia, the “Carpet Capital of the World.” The origin of my appointed title of “Carpet Boy” was from my buddy John Bielenberg ...
Posted By: Jim Sherraden
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
I was 20 years old and rummaging through an Amsterdam flea market when I bought for a few guilders what I thought was an envelope seal. A few days later in Paris I watched in awe from a storefront as a man inside the window bound a book by hand ...
Posted By: Bruce Sterling
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
Most devotees of design are either refined connoisseurs or starstruck fans of big-name designers. I'm a devotee too, but I'm not at all like that ...
Posted By: John Clark
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
By 1975, at age 25, I was really smart, probably the smartest I'll ever get. I was living in Marin County, just across the bay from San Francisco. I had a new BMW, lived in a great bachelor pad, and was a partner in an increasingly established design studio ...
Posted By: Terry Lee Stone
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
My best advice on this subject is to just drop the notion that dues paying ever really ends. I don't think I've ever stopped paying my dues, and it's been over 20 years since I graduated from art school and got my first job in graphic design.
Posted By: Armin Vit
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
One of the funniest things in life—well, I'm sure there are funnier things, but I am simple man-is watching a cat get ready for a nap. He will choose a spot in the couch, bed or belly and start kneading, turning and fussing, relentlessly, furiously and determinedly readying the surface for as long as it takes-five, ten, twenty minutes!
Posted By: Ann Willoughby
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
One muggy August day in 1964, I found myself standing in the middle of Pine Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I had just arrived to begin my freshman year at the University of Southern Mississippi, and I needed a job.
Posted By: Wayne Hunt
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
Either I never paid my dues or I've been paying all along, every week, every year-just one continuous balance due in the design business. Lessons learned are not a brief period for me, but a continuum.
Posted By: Kim Baer
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
Just after graduating from college as a printmaker and design student, I returned to Los Angeles because of a love interest. Trying to get my bearings, I found a job at George Rice & Sons, at the time, the best commercial printer in Los Angeles.
Posted By: Kelly Goto
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
When I look back on periods in my life where I struggled to prove myself, and reach the next rung on the ladder of my career, it's amazing to me to discover how much of what I went through then, I am still going through today.
Posted By: Margo Chase
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, October 07, 2005
Like many middle-class Americans, I grew up with the American Dream. In my family, we were taught that if we worked hard and were honest and frugal, the world would reward us.
Posted By: Sandra Devaux
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, September 09, 2005
Through the help of many wonderful people I was able to get myself out of the corners and onto the path towards success.
Posted By: Marty Neumeier
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
You never know where you'll find a mentor. Mine just walked in out of the blue.
Posted By: Adelheid Christian-Zechner
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
As a designer, teacher and information architect I have been working for the Uruguyan Rafael Vinoly.
Posted By: Cyrus Highsmith
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Cyrus Highsmith is now senior at the Font Bureau, he discusses lessons learned from David Berlow's 1997 sheep allegory.
Posted By: Adam M Rotmil
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Experience with Wolfgang Weingart during his last year before retiring from the HGK Basel, Switzerland.
Posted By: Frank Baseman
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, April 23, 2004
I didn’t know what graphic design was when I went to college. I just figured that, as a liberal arts major, I would find something that I liked.
Posted By: John Bielenberg
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, April 23, 2004
I have many design heroes. Some of them I know and some I just know through their work published in books and presented in lectures.
Posted By: Stefan G. Bucher
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, April 23, 2004
Can parents be mentors? I always thought that they were legally bound to be my mentors. But over the years I’ve noticed that mine seem to go above and beyond the call of duty...
Posted By: Eric Heiman
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, April 23, 2004
It might be overdramatic to say this single paragraph changed the course of my life, but when we are young, we gravitate towards the poetic, and our momentous turns often spring from the minutiae in life—pop songs, a flirtatious gaze, or personal correspondence that, to our surprise, bears the fruit of wisdom.
Posted By: Denise Gonzales Crisp
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, April 23, 2004
People who believe in so-called natural talent tend not to recognize or engage me. I like to believe those who see talent as vulnerability manifested in peculiarity cloaked in normalcy are those who have been my advocates.
Posted By: Pat Hansen
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, April 23, 2004
I was fortunate in my senior year of college to be accepted into the Kent State University/Kunst Gewerbeschule Summer Program in Switzerland. The lead of the program, and the primary instructor was Armin Hofmann.
Posted By: Nikolaus Hafermaas
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Friday, April 23, 2004
The first time I went to the movies at the age of five, my father’s friend took me to see “Peanuts.” I still remember Snoopy’s dream of being a fighter pilot.
Posted By: Mr. Tharp
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Monday, March 01, 2004
Petrula Vrontikis, an educator, designer, and my co-director of TDCTJHTBIPC (The Design Conference That Just Happens To Be In Park City), told me a few months ago that I’m “the oldest person” she knows.
Posted By: Petrula Vrontikis
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Monday, July 22, 2002
I invite you to tell us about your mentors and those who have influenced you over the years by contributing an article.
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