ADDA
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 […]
Read MoreBorderline
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 […]
Read MoreRotogravure
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 […]
Read MoreAfter The Storm
I recently found a long lost disc of photos I had taken after returning to New Orleans two weeks after Hurricane Katrina in September of 2005. There were many photos of my flooded home in Lakeview on the disc, which I remembered taking, but there were also forgotten photos of my largely unscathed third-story Carondelet […]
Read MoreNo Head
I was asked by artist John Alexander while designing a book for him coinciding with his 2011 Ogden Museum exhibit One World, Two Artists to create a print ad campaign for his Crystal Head Vodka company. Alexander and actor, Dan Akroyd, had conceived and founded the Crystal Head brand in 2007 wanting to put an […]
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