Goodbye, and a hearty salute to Grafik Magazine, which folded a few days ago. This cover gallery, here, is a fitting testament to its accomplishments – a cavalcade of top notch design, and an ad-hoc primer to just about every style and mode in vogue since 2003.
If you had to make a movie about the last 10 years, what would it be about? I think David Fincher, director of Fight Club, and Billy Idol’s Cradle of Love music video, along with Aaron Sorkin, writer and executive producer of The West Wing, have figured out the perfect movie to sum up the [...]
You may not recognize the name Edith Shain, but chances are, you’ve seen her photo. In August, 1945, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was shooting in Times Square when the US declared victory over Japan, and an end to WWII. At the same time, 27-year-old nurse Edith Shain joined co-workers and fellow New Yorkers pouring into the [...]
For decades the Associated Press Stylebook has been a journalist’s most sacred rule book. When the book first launched in 1953 I bet the editors never thought they’d be adding a “social media” section to their orderly, crisp white pages. Social media has been both a journalist’s arch-nemesis and best friend over the recent years. [...]
I don’t know what you did at work yesterday, but I was transported back to high school on a field trip. I had the excitement and anticipation of getting out of my normal “routine”, and spend the afternoon with co-workers to share some laughs, food, semi-competitive sports and a few drinks. A big yellow school [...]
It’s a beautiful day in Philadelphia. The sun is shining, the humidity is low, and the Philadelphia Flyers are two games away from a Stanley Cup title. Leave it to Chicago’s WGN sports anchor Pat Tomasulo to mess it up. Walking down Broad Street I spotted a man wearing white gloves and carrying a large [...]
