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Local Projects
by Adam Fisher
When Jake Barton, the 34-year-old principal of the interactive design firm Local Projects, thinks about what an exhibition can do, he often considers the District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa... More
Kevin Smith
by Jami Attenberg
Kevin Smith can’t talk about design without touching on collaboration and community. “Nothing we do can happen in a vacuum,” says Smith of his design process. “There always needs to be a writer... More
Christian Cervantes
by Emily Gordon
It’s not every 29-year-old who inspires this kind of naked emotion in his boss: “I’m deeply, and unforgivably, envious.” That’s the chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather’s Brand Innovation Group, Brian Collins... More
Simon Benjamin
by Jeremy Lehrer
Simon Benjamin is only 27, but he has already had several careers. At age 14, inspired by Sean Henry, a T-shirt and poster artist in his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, Benjamin began airbrushing and stenciling... More
Kate & Camilla
by Emily Gordon
Groucho Marx sang the praises of famous pairs: “Boy meets girl. Romeo and Juliet. Minneapolis and St. Paul.” Add to the list Kate and Camilla, a team of photographers who shared a camera one semester... More
John Pobojewski
by Lindsay Ballant
Welcome to the world of John Pobojewski, where soda cans represent biblical scripture, 3-D furniture flies off the printed page, and catalogs automatically design themselves.... More
Eric Strohl
by Cathy Fishel
Sometimes an apple hits you on the head. And sometimes your dad brings home from work a box of discarded Pantone books, outdated paper samples, and old Rapidograph pens. That’s what made designer Eric Strohl... More
Erik Adams
by Colin Berry
Erik Adams wears a shy smile and a crew cut and, despite his stylish urban outfit, he was raised a farm boy in Ephrata, Washington (pop. 6,895). There, in addition to cultivating rootstocks for fruit trees, his father nurtured in him... More
R. Kikuo Johnson
by Jami Attenberg
Consider the case of R. Kikuo Johnson and Night Fisher. When he was a landscape-painting RISD undergraduate, Johnson spent three years working on his debut graphic novel, a tale of growing up in Hawaii... More
Thomas Porostocky
by Steve Dollar
For Thomas Porostocky, art director at I.D. magazine, design isn’t just an aesthetic pursuit: It can also strike a blow for good, all-American populism. A refugee at the age of eight, Porostocky was born in Czechoslovakia... More
Mark Mahaney
by Sue Apfelbaum
“People are chronically dehydrated,” says Mark Mahaney, washing down a breakfast crepe at a SoHo café. For a photographer, trained to observe the body’s surface qualities more than its pathologies... More
Mike Piscitelli
by Colin Berry
Director-photographer Mike Piscitelli is calling from Ventura, where he’s scouting a location, stuck in traffic, and talking about his past. Born in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, he moved around a lot... More
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