1980 Jazz Fest Poster Process
2020 marks not only the first year with no Jazz Fest in its fifty-year history but also the passing of forty years since I was approached by Buddy Brimberg to do the 1980 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival poster. Buddy had conceived the numbered, limited-edition silkscreen posters for the Fest while in an entrepreneurship […]
Read MoreMilton Glaser Remembered
While planning the preface for my first book Missing New Orleans I wanted to include some of the ephemera I had collected over the years that particularly pertained to the city of New Orleans. One of the highlights that rang most nostalgic was the short lived 1970s nightclub Rosy’s. The jazz hall, owned by Miss […]
Read MoreGuardians of the Groove
In 2013 I was asked by Robert Alford of Alford Advertising to come up with some concepts for an ad campaign for radio station WWOZ. Known to locals as just O.Z., it is a non-profit community supported station specializing in the cultural heritage of New Orleans and the surrounding region of southern Louisiana. O.Z. is […]
Read MoreKatrina Wish List 2007 Revisited
At the end of 2006, the city of New Orleans was in shambles. A year and four months after Hurricane Katrina, so many local landmarks and institutions remained in ruins. I sent out a “New Years Wish List” card to my clients and friends listing five of the city’s icons I prayed would one day […]
Read MoreFrench Connection
While my daughter Riki was living and teaching in France in 2013, I sent several pieces of Mignon Faget jewelry to Normandy with her photographer boyfriend, Jamey Shaw. The concept was for her to be photographed wearing the jewelry in some Parisian locations. While in Europe, Jamey and Riki had made friends with an American […]
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