art

What’s True

As a child, I was either reading, writing or drawing (or some combination thereof), which is what I still mostly do today. In fact, I made a career of combining these passions—creating and designing magazines, publications, ads, websites, exhibits; writing headlines, blogs, marketing content; now adding photography and painting to the mix, and working on […]

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Design Is for Function. Looks? A Bonus.

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” —Steve Jobs, US computer engineer & industrialist, Apple (1955 – ) Flipboard, meet Steve Jobs. Actually, you already have! You’ve created a product for Steve’s iPad that follows his philosophy that good design is about good functionality (“how it works”), and […]

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Dumb Things Artists Do

We are continually amazed (yet entertained) by Dumb Things Artists Do To Try to Get Into Galleries. Dumb, because they’ve given no thought to their target audience, and how to best reach its members. Instead, they’re wasting their valuable time and they’re damaging their art reputations in the process. Today’s favorite is dubbed The Half-Assed Approach. […]

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