This week­end I spent two long—but not bor­ing or dreadful—days up at Snowbird with the board for AIGA Salt Lake. With new mem­bers mak­ing up half the board, it was great to share ideas, make friends, and develop our col­lec­tive vision for the chap­ter this year. Over the two days, 17 board mem­bers (two were only […]

I have long thought that mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions are the fab­ric of a qual­ity life, whether between peo­ple, ideas or things. I found this lovely quote attrib­uted to Steve Jobs regard­ing con­nec­tions we make in the ‘cre­ative’ realm. Creativity is just con­nect­ing things. When you ask cre­ative peo­ple how they did some­thing, they feel a lit­tle guilty because they didn’t really […]

Now that I have a lovely blog (in my opin­ion) the next task that’s eat­ing at me is to keep the con­tent rel­e­vant. But how, and for whom? I think this is the root issue behind why I’ve had dif­fi­culty keep­ing posts reg­u­lar instead of every once in a blue moon. Once I made the deci­sion to redesign my website, […]

Prime Objective 16 is to pub­lish Graymatters, a peri­odic pub­li­ca­tion that serves as an incu­ba­tor for ideas, a sound­ing board for rants, a cel­e­bra­tion of excel­lence, and a lab­o­ra­tory for typo­graphic exper­i­men­ta­tion. This post is the first article/​​essay in issue 1. The plan is to have peri­odic arti­cles posted here and on a com­pan­ion blog, that is yet to be […]