Kelly came from one of those states where the borders are straight lines and anything crooked is out of place: Kansas, smack in the middle of everywhere. Tesch was born on the coast in Far Rockaway past the last stop on the A Train, underneath the landing patterns of Idlewild Airport-within the borders of New…

Paola Antonelli is senior curator, Department of Architecture & Design of The Museum of Modern Art, where she has worked since 1994. Through her exhibitions — among them Design and the Elastic Mind in 2008 teachings and writing, she strives to promote a deeper understanding of designs transformative and constructive influence on the world.  …

There is no more biting comedy than Stanley Kubricks 1964 doomsday film,Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The film’s frightening Cold War absurdity was established from the very first frame of the main title sequence designed by Pablo Ferro. As the ballad Try a little Tenderness plays in…

Otto Storch is a member of the Art Directors Club of New York and the Society of Illustrators. In 1943 he received the first award in the National Magazine Cover Competition sponsored by the Office of War Information at the Museum of Modern Art. Since then, he has received over 300 awards in all, from…

Give a 12 year-old boy the choice between running out to play ball or running out to a museum and it’s no contest, unless that 12 year-old is Onofrio Paccione, a youngster of such immense talent that his work would one day deserve its own place in those museums he haunted. At 21, he was…

Shortly after the turn of the century, three young art students swore an oath: they signed their names in blood, swearing never to prostitute their art, never to do advertising jobs, and never to make more than fifty dollars a week. One of these blood brothers dismally failed to keep his allegiance. His name was…

Norm Grey is the Executive Creative Director of the Creative Circus, one of the most reputable and effective advertising portfolio schools in the United States. Mr. Grey has worked in the industry as a designer/art director, a copywriter, a creative director, an executive creative director and an agency owner, working on brands such as Coca-Cola,…

Nicholas Negroponteis founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. A graduate of MIT, Nicholas was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and…

There’s a story about a copywriter who once slammed his fist through Nancy Rice’s office wall in a fit of frustration. The story is true. The writer in question had just learned a painful lesson: when working with Nancy, it’s best to check your ego at the door. As everyone discovers sooner or later, she…

I guess Im never sure that print is truly linear, Muriel Cooper said. Its more a simultaneous medium. Designers know a lot about how to control perception, how to present information in some way that helps you find what you need, or what it is they think you need. Information is only useful when it…