posted: February 22, 2006

Sure to be the social event of the season in downtown Montpelier. If you can make it, for God's sake, bring your checkbook!

posted: February 20, 2006

Here are some sketches from my sketchbook ruminating on The Blame Game. We all play it, with the exception of the powers that be.

posted: February 15, 2006

I 've collected rubber stamps since the late 70's. Pretty early in my career I started having rubber stamps made from drawings in my sketch books. Not painstakingly rendered drawings, but crude little sketches that showcased my sense of humor. I was never that good at "painstaking" anyway. It was always my view that the more interesting you made and envelope, the more likely the recipient was to open it. Particularly when it came to mailing promo pieces. So I decorated envelopes like crazy and always hand wrote the prospective AD's name in my fanciest script. If my envelope was worthy of an AD's bulliten board, it was the equivalant of the Holy Grail.

But things have changed these days. Direct mail is getting prohibitively expensive and self promotion has shifted to web sites and (God forbid!)blogs. My use of rubber stamps has fallen off abit over the years, but, rest assured, when the time comes to impress a client, and I want to pull out all the stops, I pull out the boxes of rubber stamps.