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Flower Striptease

It’s mid-March and already the spring-time lovelies are peeking their heads out of the ground to brighten up the Pacific + more

Type Matters

Helvetica has always had a sense of purpose. While it’s one of several great fonts at every designer’s disposal, it + more

Brooks in Boise

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of presenting a lecture at Boise’s fourth annual Modern Masters series, sponsored by Preservation Idaho and Idaho + more

View-Master 2.0

Whether you are a tech enthusiast or a person born any time after 1940, you will appreciate this new partnership: + more

Misspellings

Anyone who has ever worked with me knows that I am infamous for misspelling a word in a design project. + more

CK, Marty. Marty, CK.

One of my favorite design authors is Marty Neumeier. I first became aware of his work in the 1990s when he + more

Movie Night

The creative field can be exhausting at times, with long hours spent on everything from painstaking detail and pixel-pushing to grand, yearlong + more

One of Our Own

Sadly, we lost an important member of our design community a couple of weeks ago: Monte Mindt, most recently creative director + more

Changing Minds, One Person at a Time

It turns out that carefully planned, creatively developed, and strategically executed image campaigns actually work. Who’d a-thunk it? (Why, yes—that’s helveticka’s handiwork + more

The Retro Look Never Gets Old

When Pressworks asked us to help them with their letterpress promotion, we were delighted. For years, I’ve been wanting to + more

For Type Geeks Only

Hey, it turns out that Helvetica isn’t the only font with an interesting story. (Who knew?) The New York Public + more

Eight and Counting

Over the last twenty years, our firm has expanded into the area of 3D design—and, along the way, had the good + 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

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