“A few educators interviewed for this article further estimate that as many as 50 percent of their own B.A. and B.F.A. graduates or certificate holders actually quit design within a year after graduation. The reasons for this vary: Certain programs provide inadequate tutelage and job counseling; or just as critical, many students are simply ill-suited to be graphic designers. Yet once accepted into a school or program, administrators are reluctant to “thin the herd.” Instead they allow natural selection to take its course, and while survival of the fittest is widely accepted in the professional jungle, for an educational institution to release unprepared grads is irresponsible to the student and the profession.”

By Steven Heller, AIGA
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A few of us worked with a photographer from London in Morzine last ski season with Getty Images, shooting film and stills for their image library. The footage is now on-line and can be viewed here.

July 2005
Zest Magazine

May 2005 vol 22 no 5
Health & Fitness Magazine

31 March 2005
Design Week

Steven Collins,
The Daily Telegraph

“Semiology [is] the study of signs and signals, the symbols, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself by painting or powdering over its raddled, whore-like visage…Barthes’ purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture.”

Dennis Potter,
The Times