After The Storm

by Phillip Collier

July 20, 2020

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 […]

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No Head

by Phillip Collier

July 16, 2020

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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1980 Jazz Fest Poster Process

by Phillip Collier

July 15, 2020

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 […]

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Milton Glaser Remembered

by Phillip Collier

July 10, 2020

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 […]

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Guardians of the Groove

by Phillip Collier

June 15, 2020

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 […]

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