Family Affair
I had the great fortune in getting to work with and use my future son in law, Jamey Shaw as the fashion photographer and my daughter, Riki Collier as a model in this year’s Mignon Faget jewelry catalog. It was a no brainer in choosing the talent and photographer. I have been using Riki as […]
Read MoreRoadmap
We’ve moved back home. In December 1990, I was in my eighth year at Bauerlien Advertising. I had spent the last year traveling to other cities to interview art and creative directors. Because, according to my old friend and then-new president of Bauerlien Advertising, John Green, there was a void of talent in the New Orleans market. […]
Read MoreTales of the Cocktail
Hurricane Katrina forced me to take a part time hiatus from my business. I was driving back and forth from Daphne, Alabama to New Orleans during those first few months after the desvastation to get my family’s life together, and I was not able to return to work full time until late 2005. When I […]
Read MoreWilkinson Row
I returned back to New Orleans in 1977 to work as the senior art director for Jim Pertuit and Associates that soon afterwards became Pertuit and Alford Advertising. The agency owned by Robert Alford and Jim Pertuit was on the one block long Wilkinson Row in the French Quarter near the Mississippi River. The studio […]
Read MoreChicago COVID Casualty
The Palmer House Hotel in Chicago has been called the longest continuously operating hotel in North America. The hotel closed its doors at the beginning of March due to the COVID pandemic and is now in a foreclosure lawsuit due to missed loan payments on a $333 million mortgage. Located in Chicago’s Loop area on […]
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