During the interminable and surreal isolation of COVID, my extraordinarily talented friend Carol Gimbel asked me to write the history of her nimble, sometimes protean classical music collective, musicinthebarns. It’s an organization well worth following. And any opportunity to hear Carol herself play viola or her partner-in-crime, Cullan Bryant, play piano is not to be…
OTHER PROJECTS: Naming a Japanese Vodka and telling its brand story
My “brief” was to name Suntory’s U.S. entry in the ultra-premium vodka market and write its initial brand story. My own goals were: a genuine Japanese word with good graphic design potential; it needed to be easy for English speakers to pronounce (and remember); and I wanted to at least nod at Suntory’s commitment to…
BROWSING FOR GOLD: ADVENTURES IN THE RARE BOOK TRADE
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
PHOTOGRAPHY BY HIROSHI SUGIMOTO Imagine you’re standing in the last row of an empty theater, gazing at the screen while a movie is being shown. Now, take a photograph. Could anything be simpler? Would anyone call it “Art?” In 1976, when Hiroshi Sugimoto—an unknown graduate from Tokyo of Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, newly…
European Travel & Life – Bulgaria
Dennis Hopper
Ad-Age: Jil Sander
Ask anyone in fashion what makes a major campaign different today from what it was twenty years ago, and the first word they usually say is, “time”. . . . How there would be a couple of days to think, talk, and plan. Four days for shooting instead of one. And then, after the shoot…
David Lynch
Packaged Goods: Britney Spears
