Michael Zipkin Designer

Have you seen the new(ish) postage stamps commemorating the contributions of Miles Davis and Edith Piaf? Here's a revealing piece about beginning small by USPS Art Director Greg Breeding (and a reminder that right-brain sketching can open the portals of design possibilities): http://storymatters.com/columns/forcing-myself-to-think

Forcing Myself to Think » Columns » Story Matters Lately I’ve been thinking about a class I loathed in art school. It was an introduction to graphic design — a subject I came to eventually love — and the peevish professor was obsessed with thumbnail sketches. My classmates and I were required to fill our sketchbooks with page after page of graphite...