Artistic Integrity 

Artistic Integrity 

In the film industry, it takes hundreds of artists to produce a movie; it’s the same for all of the creative industries, compromise is part of the process. In the music industry, artists are pushed by producers, record companies, and the direction of the popular...
The Danger of Underbidding Freelance

The Danger of Underbidding Freelance

In the early 1980s, a studio owner came to me and said, he had a guy on the phone who needed a recording engineer for some demos, he didn’t have much money, but I could talk to him if I wanted to. He put me on the phone with him, and everything was going well until he...
Essence

Essence

“There’s the whole Buddhist thing about the essence of a bowl being its emptiness—that’s why it’s useful. Its emptiness allows it to hold something. I guess that means that design must talk about something else. If you make design about design, you’re just...
Software Illusion 

Software Illusion 

I’ve spent a lot of time and effort learning software. I think we all have. To some degree these programs have become the main focus of learning an art or craft. Programs like Photoshop, Protools, Cinema 4D and AutoCAD have become an indispensable part of these...