Monkeying with the Magazine Business
Monkey Magazine helps guys channel their inner primate. It also reinvents the codex. Links to article in Voice: AIGA Journal of Design
Originally published January 29, 2008 Card Culture
A look at credit and rewards card design. Links to article in Voice: AIGA Journal of Design.
Originally published July 12, 2006 All Economics is Local
A review of The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor—
and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! By Tim Harford
Originally published in Washington City Paper, February 17, 2006 Changing Reader
Chicago’s classic alt-weekly reacts to a shifting market
Originally published in Design Journal, Summer, 2005 Private Parts
Graphic Designers with security clearances could show you their work, but then they’d have to kill you.
Originally published in Print Magazine, March-April, 2005 Has The Right Hand Lost its Cunning?
A look at how illustration is used by small political magazines
Links to original article in Voice: AIGA Journal of Design. Pretty Poison
A review of Michael Light’s 100 Suns
Originally published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July, 2004 Eclectic Avenue
Looking for the pieces of the street where I live
Originally published in Washington City Paper, March 26, 2004 Welcome to mDeath
I wanted a phone I could use in Fairfax. I ended up in limbo.
Originally published in Washington City Paper, January 23, 2004 Moods for Moderns
A review of ABZ: More Alphabets and Other Signs.
Originally published in Washington City Paper, January 23, 2004 Round Tables
A review of Reinventing the Wheel by Jessica Helfand
Originally Published in Washington City Paper’s City Books, March 28, 2003 I am Curious (Purple)
A review of Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield
Originally Published in Washington City Paper, June 21, 2001 Seminars Eight Ways to Improve Your Magazine Right Now
I spoke at Folio 2006 on ways to improve a small magazine without going through a full redesign. Big Design, Little Money
I gave a seminar in 2005 on producing effective pages at a student newspaper. Here is my outline, along with suggestions for further reading. | 
