I've been working with the fantastic team at Hybrid Design in San Francisco to create content for Mohawk Paper's Maker publication for quite some time now. The writing I did for Issue No. 13 was especially interesting, because it challenged ...
Writers truly geek out when their work is published — even more so when their work is presented in glorious, beautifully designed fashion. I'm lucky. I get to work with creative people who turn my words into really cool printed ...
Late last year, the team at San Francisco's supertalented Hybrid Design called with an assignment: Would I be interested in interviewing Sibella Kraus for one of their client projects? Um, yeah. Sibella Kraus is the matriarch of our modern farmers' market system, ...
Recently, my colleagues at HOW asked me to create a feature story for HOWdesign.com about beautiful food package design. The pleasure was all mine, since the project combines two subjects I love: food and design. The featured works included a range ...
There’s a difference between looking and seeing, between hearing and listening. Many of us (I raise my hand) are better at the former than at the latter. We look, but we don’t see. We hear, but we don’t listen. Over many ...
This has been making its way around the interwebs in the past 2 weeks, so perhaps it's not new to you. But I'm utterly charmed by Minneapolis-based designer David Schwen and his Pantone Pairings project. Schwen takes two compatible foods ...
With so much business-related interaction happening in the digital realm, you might wonder whether such old-fashioned niceties as a well-designed business card still matter. They do. A great business card design makes such a strong impression. These days, it's not so much ...
You've heard the phrase 'starving artist'—but you may not know what a role diet plays in our creative and artistic pursuits. We may think of food as fuel for our bodies, but it charges up our minds, too. Whole grains, ...
My favorite part of my work—any project, whether it's writing a magazine article or crafting marketing copy for a client—is the personal connection. Interviewing sources. Talking to people. Understanding what makes them tick. Telling their story. Gretchen Schisla got in touch ...