This was my second year attending (surviving?) the 4-day chaos that is San Diego Comic-Con – the largest Comic-Con there is. What comics do I read? None. So why would a non-comic-book-reading girl like myself go to Comic-Con? Because, to some peoples’ dismay, Comic-Con goes way beyond comic books. While you will still find sweaty nerds huddled in a room discussing the latest incarnation of Justice League, Comic-Con is also a massive showcase of the latest and greatest in entertainment,…

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…

In 2009, our agency was knee-deep in creating a brand architecture to guide the rapidly expanding Just Dance product line. We developed a key art framework that could either be executed in angled typography or in an art direction appropriate to the product extension. Or as I like to put it, we discovered the holy grail of art direction: a legitimate excuse to phone any creative vendor. For the Just Dance Kids product extension key art, our agency selected Brazilian…