Day of Remembrance

Poster for "Day of Remembrance for Victims of Ustase Concentration Camp for Children,

August 1942 - January 1943."

Working With Pentagram

I just came across a copy of this logo for the Atheneum Hotel in Chicago. In 1993, I drew this logo for Colin Forbes (Pentagram Partner) and Michael Gericke (at that time, Designer at Pentagram).

Twenty-one years later, it still looks good to me.

Behance's Branding Served Site Features Flagler Steakhouse Design

The Behance site curatorial team, from among thousands of other branding projects, have chosen to feature along with others, our design for Flagler Steakhouse at
The Breakers Hotel on their Branding Served site. 

http://bit.ly/1rf9e9S

LOGOGRAMA

This is the spread from the new book, "LOGOGRAMA," from Sandu Publishing (China), featuring our identity design for the Play restaurant at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado.

More about project here:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/8556621/PLAY-at-the-Broadmoor-Logos-and-Visual-Identity

Robin Williams Making Fun of My Work

Robin Williams Wins Special Achievement Award - Golden Globes 1993,
a certificate designed by me.
Of course he used that opportunity to make fun of it.

"Backstage, Williams held up his award. 'What is this?' he teased.
'It's cardboard. It's not framed, and it has a whole in it.' Pointing to the tiny
Golden Globe in the corner, he asked, 'Is that the size I get?
Maybe it's redeemable, like a coupon.'
'It's art,' a member of the host committee pointed out.
It is, in fact, an original work by the artist, Mirko Ilic."

Video of Robin Williams receiving the award:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5tAoN8feJ8

An archived article from the March 7, 1993 issue of Boston Sunday Globe's, Parade Magazine, with Robin Williams holding award and his funny comments:

LogoLounge- The Eighth Volume

"LogoLounge 8 is judged by an international panel of identity designers including

Mikey Burton, Quique Ollervides, Katie Kirk, Fraser Davidson, Debbie Millman, Ty Mattson, Mike Abbink, and Simon Frouws. 

Of the more than 35,000 logos submitted, 2,000 were selected to be featured in the 8th edition of this bestselling series. This inspiring collection provides a wealth of insight for graphic designers and their clients."

We are honored that despite the tight competition, two of our logos for

6th and 7th Jewish Film Festival of Tolerance were chosen for LogoLounge 8th Volume. 

"Finding Carter" Key Art

A month ago MTV's VP Off Air Creative Jim F. deBarros asked me to come up with concept for a new MTV series, "Finding Carter". The series follows Carter Stevens, a young girl who has a perfect life with her single mother Lori, until a police bust at a party reveals that Carter is a missing child abducted by Lori. Now, Carter returns to her biological family and must navigate through her new life whilst vowing to be reunited with Lori.

Of course my first thought was the milk carton missing child alert, but that was not enough. Then I remembered the idiom, "spilled milk" which Americans use when something goes wrong.

Campaign was photographed by Rene Cervantes. 

Designed by Chris Peck and Lance Rusoff.

Art Directed by me. 

On July 8th was first episode of the show on MTV.
Announced by billboards, posters, and digital media some of which you can see below:

Digital board: http://hurley.moad.me/s/78318

Here is a few photographs of "Finding Carter" billboard in Los Angeles,
posted by Daily Billboard blog, with comment: "With its clever milk carton visual you instantly know that MTV's Finding Carter series is going to be about a missing child in some way or another." 

Here's also the landscape version of the ad creative which works equally well and was spied further west along the Sunset Strip.