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What’s with Shepard Fairey?

On a happier note, Shepard Fairey got arrested last Friday. This is the guy known for his iconic Andre the Giants and then his even more iconic Obama posters. He has been all the rage in Boston lately, with his new show going up at the ICA and all. (I’m excited to go see it…

How to learn design?

In the last week or so, I blew through 2 design books – one called How to Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul and the other called Thinking with Type. The former I borrowed from my co-worker, a fresh-out-of-college designer like me who, unlike me, has a traditional design education tucked away in…

How vs. why

In my forever ongoing education as an artist/graphic designer, I made yet another realization today. I guess I’d known this for quite some time but hadn’t really articulated it. Basically, at some point in the last 5 years, I made the transition from spending the majority of my time experimenting and figuring out how to…

“That’s Tara Donovan!” “Holy shit!”

Today Jess, Yang, and I went to the ICA to see Tara Donovan’s solo show. I’m glad we went. How to describe her work? First I would like to say that I am not going to post a link to anything about her on the web, because accompanying it will surely be images, and those…