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October 2014

Happy Halloween

My family has a couple of Halloween traditions, if you want to call them that: We eat chili and listen + more

Radical Inspiration 

Dan Friedman was an extraordinary designer. His work is currently on display at the American Institute of Graphic Arts National + more

Voices from Ground Zero

The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City is easily the most powerful exhibit experience I’ve ever seen. Even the + more

An Original Mad Man

One of the great things about visiting NYC is that you never run out of things to see. The Museum + more

A Life in Design

So what do Mobile, Xerox, PBS, Chase Manhattan Bank, and National Geographic all have in common? Their graphic identity programs + more

Where the Sun Don’t Shine

I’ve been on the road shooting for Hecla Mining Company—a client we’ve worked with since 1988. The shoot involved both + more

There Goes the Warranty

About 6,000 below the surface at the Lucky Friday mine, Jim Swoboda of ILF Media (on the left ) and + more

Hanging Cranes

When we moved into our new office building earlier this year, we gave over a portion of the lobby space + more

“Danger” Is His Middle Name

On a recent trip to Hecla Mining Company’s Lucky Friday mine in Mullan, Idaho, photographer Jim Van Gundy takes a breather before + more

French Flyers

On a recent trip to Casa Barardi – Hecla Mining Company’s gold property in western Quebec, we enlisted the help of + more

How Do You Say “Latrine” in French?

It’s dark, hot, musty, and noisy. Other than that, working at an underground mine site is a piece of cake. + more

Quick Recommendation

I prefer not to categorize books. Like music, they’re either good or bad, and discussions about genres and sub-genres tend + more

Fear not! We know grammar!

Experts in West Africa are predicting as many as 1.4 million new cases of Ebola by January. The CDC is “doubling down” on + more

Musical Interlude

I was in Seattle Monday and Tuesday, in town to see the final show of the King Crimson Elements tour. Tickets went on sale + more

Let me show you some letterheads

Letterheads, we make them all the time here at helveticka. However, I think if you asked a random 20-something (i.e. + more

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