I recently had the opportunity to design a button for the Sacred Heart Peace Community in Camden, New Jersey — the poorest city in the US, twice declared “America’s Most Dangerous City” (2004, 2005, Morgan Quitno Corp.), and also the city where I was born. The Sacred Heart Peace Community is a volunteer group that… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Illustration
Pictograms and parks
Pictograms (also: pictographs), with their ancestral roots in hieroglyphics, can be beautiful in their utilitarian simplicity. For example, here is a sample set used by the National Park Service (click image below for larger view). Simple, purposeful, efficient, and clear. Resource: These pictograms, along with other cartographic symbols and patterns used on National Park Service… Read more »
On shamrocks as symbols
As I write this, there are 13 days, 9 hours, and 8 minutes until St. Patrick’s Day. As you can discern, I’m looking forward to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day —and all its shamrocky goodness— with my wife Lisa, as we always do. Much has already been written about the shamrock as a symbol, as it… Read more »
The role of pen & pencil in modern graphic design
It seems that once again, a small but growing movement is occurring within the graphic design industry in which traditional illustration skills are being looked upon as being of unique importance. This is certainly not to say that computer skills are not of equal importance, as today’s advertising media require a successful designer to not… Read more »
