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. […]
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 […]
Read More1980 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 […]
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