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CONTRIBUTORS
Features
Sam McMillan (wordstrong.com) is a San Francisco Bay Area–based writer, brand strategist and regular contributor to Communication Arts’ Web Watch and Book Review departments. In this issue, McMillan visits Tinseltown to learn how the digital agency Watson Design Group drums up anticipation on social media for movie premieres.
Tom Biederbeck (tbiederbeck@gmail.com) is a writer, editor, publisher and visual communicator. Formerly, he was editor of STEP inside design magazine. In this issue, Biederbeck profiles five innovative Chicago artists who are carrying their city’s design legacy forward, even as they shake up the scene. He’d like to learn more about Chicago’s vibrant African American and Latino design cultures—who wouldn’t?
Claire Bingham (clairebingham.com) is
a freelance journalist and copywriter who writes about design and style for Elle Decoration and other British publications and the Sunday Times magazine, as well as for luxury retail brands. In this issue, Bingham travels to Barcelona, Spain, to find the human touch behind Contrapunto BBDO’s gripping ad campaigns.
Victoria Rossi (vicrossi@gmail.com) is a freelance writer and paralegal. She worked as a researcher for Mother Jones magazine, then wrote for publications in Latin America and South Asia before returning to her home state of Texas. In this issue, she interviews the badass power couple behind the photography studio the Voorhes.
Columns
As the vice president and head of strategy for POSSIBLE Seattle, Daniel Carlson (daniel .carlson@possible.com) leads a team on the accounts for Microsoft, AT&T and Coke. Formerly with GREY and Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare, Carlson was an Effie finalist in 2012 and won a Gold David Ogilvy Award in 2013, but he’s most proud of his Ad Council award for the F.A.S.T. stroke awareness campaign in 2013. In this issue’s Voices column, Carlson introduces a new type of creative brief that ad agencies might rely on in the future.
Allan Haley (allan.haley@fonts.com) is
a storyteller and a consultant with expertise in fonts, font technology, type and typo- graphic communication. He was director of words and letters at Monotype for fifteen years and has six books and hundreds of articles to his credit. He is a past president of the Type Directors Club and was executive vice president of International Typeface Corporation. In this issue’s Typography column, Haley answers the question: Where are all the serif typefaces?
Wendy Richmond (wendyrichmond.com) is a visual artist, a writer and an educator whose work explores public privacy, personal technology and creativity. Richmond has taught at Harvard University, the Interna- tional Center of Photography and the Rhode Island School of Design, and she serves on BRIC’s Artists Advisory Council and the MacDowell Fellows Executive Committee. Her latest book is Art Without Compromise*. In this issue’s Design Culture column, Richmond finds the creative benefits of having a beginner’s mind.
Ernie Schenck (ernieschenckcreative.prosite .com) is a freelance writer, a creative director and a regular contributor to Communication Arts’ Advertising column. Schenck is an Emmy finalist, a three-time Kelly nominee and a perennial award winner at the One Show, the CLIOs, D&AD, the FWAs and Cannes. As a freelancer, an executive creative director at Hill Holliday/Boston and a cofounder of Pagano Schenck & Kay, he has worked on campaigns for some of the most prestigious brands in the world. In this issue’s Advertising column, Schenck argues why creative workers should stay open to new ideas—in all aspects of their lives.
Claire Sykes (sykeswrites.com) is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, covering design, arts and culture, philanthropy, health and wellness, business, and other topics for national magazines and organizations. Within the visual arts, she writes regularly for Communication Arts, Photographer’s Forum magazine and the American Photographic Artists’ website; her byline has also appeared in Applied Arts, Camera Arts, HOW and Photo District News. She’s on the exhibition committee for the Blue Sky Gallery, an internationally esteemed photography gallery in Portland, and she serves as a roving reviewer for Photolucida. Sykes explores the flourishing world of adult coloring books in this issue’s Business column.
Pictured contributors wrote features and columns: Sam McMillan, Tom Biederbeck, Claire Bingham, Victoria Rossi, Daniel Carlson, Allan Haley, Wendy Richmond, Ernie Schenck and Claire Sykes.
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Correction
In the March/April Voices column, “The Bright Side of the ‘Dark’ Side,” Joe Schrick, Garmin’s fitness business lead, was mistakenly identified as Joe Heikes. Our apologies for the error.