If you’re Ram Trucks—an American icon—and you have a lineup of 5 of today’s hottest country music stars, who better to give a look to your 2012 concert series than the visual embodiment of American music itself—the inimitable Hatch Show Print. Hatch has been designing and printing concert posters in the heart of Nashville for over 130 years, and their hand-set letterpress style is every bit as much of an icon in my mind as the artists they’ve promoted. So,…

May sound kind of weird but Moleskine actually reconnected me with an artistic portion of my soul, lost to a management role and it’s responsibilities: department planning, staffing, resource management, pitching, presenting, and directing. My CD role simply didn’t require my drawing skills. I no longer needed to create comps or storyboards. I didn’t need to supplement my designs with hand-drawn elements. so I just stopped drawing pictures. Instead I produced hundreds of doodles. Completely disposable doodles. After encountering a…