Design Couples: Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast
by Caitlin Dover
"We can’t collaborate at all. It’s a total disaster. When I was an art director at CBS records I hired Seymour to illustrate some covers and it was OK. He asked me to write for the Pushpin graphic, but that was always terrible."...
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Design Couples: Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko
by Caitlin Dover
"We keep each other honest. We know each other’s work and
abilities so well, it’s easy for each of us to recognize when the
other is not working up to their potential. You can’t pull a fast one
on your spouse."...
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Design Couples: Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller
by Caitlin Dover
"Abbott definitely has primary authority over decorating the house. (Ellen controls the food.) We think couples have less stress when there is leadership in some areas. Why argue about paint colors or chicken recipes?...
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Design Couples: Min and Sulki Choi
by Caitlin Dover
"The degree and nature of collaboration can be different for each project.
For larger projects we share work, but usually either one of us would
take up the responsibility to manage a project, depending on......
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Design Couples: Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio
by Caitlin Dover
"Everything happens in the same place. Life and work. We live in a sunny three-bedroom house and what was supposed to be the master bedroom became the office. It’s great that you can do loads of laundry while you work, or that you are always around for the cable guy to come over during a 12-hour window....
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Design Couples
by Caitlin Dover
We asked 6 of our favorite design couples how their relationships impact their work,
and vice versa, and learned a lot about what it means to do laundry, raise dogs, and feed
children while you’re also drawing type or art directing a magazine....
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Design Couples: Gael Towey and Stephen Doyle
by Caitlin Dover
"Compare and contrast. That’s what we offer each other, and that dynamic has infiltrated our 23 years together. Gael’s empire and my miniscule studio offer us both such insights into design, innovation, and energy and enthusiasm."...
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Milton Glaser talks about his role models
by Caitlin Dover
Milton Glaser, this issue's cover artist, sits down for an interview after becoming the first graphic designer to win the National Arts Award, recognized for his achievement by President Obama himself....
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Jean Jullien
by Caitlin Dover
The French illustrator Jean Jullien is best known for creating cheerful characters that he cuts out of paper and captures in photographs. His simple, appealing scenes got a big break on the website Manystuff in 2008 while he was still in art school, and since then his work has appeared in The Guardian and The New York Times, and on a host of design blogs....
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Review: William Kentridge at MoMA
by Caitlin Dover
William Kentridge, the South African multimedia artist who is the subject of a well-deserved retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art that opened last week, has been making richly detailed short films using stop motion animation since the 1980s....
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