Making a Photo Shoot Sing

Photo shoot at the end of the day yesterday. The campus chorale is headed to China after graduation and needed some publicity photos. The plan was to shoot outdoors. It’s a large group — 60 people — and I had reserved a bucket truck to give the photographer some height. Things started going wrong early. [...]

Posted at 3:12 am on April 8, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tagged: , | read on

Feed your head

Last fall I started reading a lot of professional books — don’t ask me why — books about design, but also about creativity, innovation, advertising, and branding. Stretching my subject matter turned out to be one of the best things I ever did. It’s given me a perspective on why we do what we do [...]

Posted at 5:00 pm on May 28, 2008 | 1 comment | Filed Under: professional development | Tagged: , , , , | read on

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A long-time university art director thinks out loud about his chosen profession.