ADDA

by Phillip Collier

April 09, 2026

The New Orleans Art Directors and Designers Association of New Orleans was chartered in 1961. The club would feature monthly dinner meetings with notable national designers and illustrators such as Milton Glazer, Seymour Chwast, Bernie Fuchs and Bob Peak. The ADDA became a local chapter of the AIGA (The American Institute of Graphic Arts) in 1999.Every […]

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Borderline

by Phillip Collier

New Orleans Bauerlein Advertising was founded by spat wearing Wally Bauerlein in 1922. It would be the largest and oldest agency in the state for the next eighty years. I worked there throughout the 1980s as a vice president, senior art director and associate creative director. Borderline, a nickname for the agency preferred among former […]

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Rotogravure

by Phillip Collier

April 02, 2026

Rotogravure printing is a high-volume, industrial intaglio process.The Dixie Roto, The Times Picayune’s Sunday magazine from 1946-94 , was folded into the Sunday paper. Pages were filled with local history, features, recipes and lots of color photos. For most of the Dixie Roto’s publication, the newspaper photography was printed in black and white only. Below […]

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