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For the music review section of The New Yorker for a CD named Shut Up I'm Dreaming. Max Bode, art director.
Stranded Messages, 2008. Nicholas Brawley, art director; 7 x 7 Magazine, client.
For an article about authors claiming in their memoirs to have experienced things that never happened to them. Janet Michaud, Time, art director.
Mr. Lauder was running a campaign against the renovation of The Plaza hotel. This is a parody of the then future, now present, Plaza. Ronald Lauder, client.
This is a promotional mailer I did with my rep Sari Levy aimed at the advertising, sports and fashion markets. Sari Levy, Levy Creative Management, creative director.
I drew Te Casan shoes on location at the premiere of Sex and the City for part of the movie's ad campaign. Sari Levy, Levy Creative Management, art director; Jd Michaels, BBDO, creative director.
Personal work. War of Wards focuses on the dynamic behind ten universal arguments, in this case the eternal and internal argument with oneself.
A poetry book exclusively for elementary schools. Kathi Gulotta, Scholastic, art director.
07.21.08
www.fernandacohen.com
Duration: Four years. Staff: Three people. Education: BFA, School of Visual Arts. Cultural Influences: Turkish, Jewish, Argentinian, South American, American, Saul Steinberg, Andy Warhol, Seinfeld, Woody Allen, Milton Glaser, Quino. Environment: The same CD played for months over and over again, bananas, tea with milk, too much sun, closed doors, organized chaos. Philosophy: Work is play, play is life. I want to keep playing.
Any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. — Leo Burnett
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Introduced just about one year ago, PANTONE's Goe System is the first new color system introduced in the last 45 years. Not quite clear on the concept? Might be worth checking out next week's PaperSpecs PANTONE Goe Webinar.
Old Spice. It's Two Things. At least according to this site by Struck Creative and Wieden+Kennedy.
The goal of the Million Faces Project is to create the largest-ever image of Internet users. Um, as of yesterday, the project has quite a ways to go.
For its first annual Aspen Design Challenge, the AIGA has an intriguing task for the next generation of creative thinkers: Dubbed "Designing Water’s Future," it asks students to create a solution to the global water crisis.
Hey, look what Matt wrote for us: a Song for Designers. OK, OK, so he also wrote songs for the iPhone and Flashforward... we still feel special.
Power To The Poster. A site full of topical, well-designed, black-and-white posters in a very-printable, 11" x 17", PDF format. Download. Print. Post. (What a great idea. Thanks Justin.)
Although, we couldn't find a list of stations anywhere, supposedly debuting this weekend on a radio station near you: The iTunes Download, a weekly syndicated program—hosted by director of music programming for iTunes Alex Luke—based on the 30 most downloaded songs from the iTunes Store.
We can't think of anyone better than Rob Ford (founder of FWA) to author this title: Guidelines for Online Success. Well, OK, maybe his co-author Julius Wiedemann.
TechCrunch50. A three-day conference with the express purpose of presenting 50 start-ups. September 8 - 10. San Francisco.
Open Salon, Salon.com's blog/social network of member-generated content is now in full public beta (uh, we didn't know it was in private beta). There's some pretty darn good writing on it too.