Fresh from the Carmel Bach Festival: A pen for your thoughts

[Alyson Kuhn] The first event I attended at the 73rd annual Carmel Bach Festival was a one-hour lecture by singer/teacher/raconteur David Gordon preceding a performance of the St. Matthew Passion (1727). Gordon is indeed passionate about this subject, and his talk was not only brilliant but surprisingly, well, Alysonian. When I told my friend Vinz about it afterwards, he deadpanned, “Did he know you were going to the lecture?” Drole.

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07.29.10
In the pressroom: Printing John Madere’s photographs at Sandy Alexander

[Lynda Decker] I’ve been working with uncoated paper for the last 10 years — for almost every project in my studio, including annual reports full of photography. I’m quite excited to have rediscovered Kromekote. It boggles my mind to say this: The surface of Kromekote is so glossy, but it behaves like an uncoated sheet.

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07.28.10
Marian Bantjes: 3 questions by Sean Adams

[Sean Adams] In disaster movies, characters create tight bonds amidst burning skyscrapers, airplane crashes or earth-crust displacement. I formed a bond like this with Marian Bantjes when we both faced down a charging rhino in Africa. Really. This is a true story. Obviously, Marian is incredibly talented. She does work that, to me, is beyond the limits of human beings. And that’s all swell. But she has the most infectious and wonderful laugh you will ever hear.

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07.26.10

Guest Post: Bierut to New York, Drop Dead

[Richard Shear] Last Friday, mischief night, and the moon was full, the Yankees had the night off, and the new AIGA Metro-North chapter celebrated its first year by hosting a special Halloween Dead Brands evening in Sleepy Hollow, home of Washington Irving’s famous legend of Ichabod Crane, the Connecticut schoolmaster, and his escape from the headless horseman.

An inmate from the Tropicana Department of Brand Corrections {Joe Cuticone}, artist Frida Kahlo {Sarah Ficca}, a Pan Am stewardess {Lee Moody}, and a Bear Stearns trader {Rob Sivitilli} were among those who joined guest of honor Michael Bierut. Each was given an award for their costume at the event.

This new AIGA chapter is dedicated to advancing the discipline of world-class branding – brand creation, management, and evolution – that is designed to optimize and sustain competitive advantage of organizations, products, and services over time. Hence the notion of celebrating Dead Brands the night before Halloween.

Michael, who lives in the village along the Hudson, spoke of the “Seven Dead Brands of Sleepy Hollow.” These brands included Washington Irving, Old Croton Aqueduct, Maxwell-Briscoe Company, Kraft Fudgies, Pocantico Expressway, Gory Brook Road, and Village of North Tarrytown.

He ended his talk with an announcement, met with universal acclaim, that he is moving his local AIGA chapter affiliation from the New York chapter to the Metro-North chapter. And we have him on tape!

The evening was sponsored by Sterling Brands, Lucid Brands and the new Masters of Professional Studies in Branding at the School of Visual Arts.

Photography: Scott Lerman

11.2.09
  1. Posted by Scott Lerman on 11.2.09 at 10:02 pm

    See all the photos and view the videos at:

    http://aigadeadbrands2009.shutterfly.com/