Designer BS: Suzanne Dell'Orto and Beth Tondreau talk design.
Monday, June 29, 2020

Good is the enemy of great

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The recently-late Milton Glaser (June 26, 1929–June 26, 2020) notably said/wrote on his website, "The good is the enemy of the great....
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Sunday, March 15, 2020

2020. 001. Murals in the Court

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I wrote this in early February, before Coronavirus changed Jury Duty with its potential jurors crowded in close quarters in one room. Now, ...
Monday, February 10, 2020

100. Reaching 100

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This is the 100th post of my self-imposed "100 Days of Leaving my Comfort Zone." Perhaps, more accurately, it's "100 Daz...

99. What's in a Big Name

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This post is both a question, "What's in a big name?" and a tribute to the power of relationships. First, the big name My ...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

98. Elisabeth Sifton

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 This post combines a number of things: —honoring the passing of Elisabeth Sifton, brilliant and gifted editor and writer —noting how con...
Monday, January 27, 2020

97. How worry doesn't work

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It's amusingly predictable that when I can't sleep—because of many things to do in not enough time, ESPECIALLY planning for a class...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

96. Passion. That old chestnut

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Passion. Such an overused word. Yet, the most successful people in any field bring passion to their work. Or, if they don't have passio...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

95. Not yet Auld Lang Syne

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The object of the game is to have 100 days of doing something that makes me uncomfortable and in a few cases, I have strayed beyond my comf...

94. Adjutor. Adjutant. Adjunct.

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Judge. Aide-de-camp. Extra. My paternal grandfather's name was Adjutor E. Tondreau. Grandpa used to joke that the "E" stood...
Monday, December 30, 2019

93. End of year wisdom from Shams, the Coffee Guy

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Today, December 30, 2019, Shams, who's in his coffee cart come wind, rain, heat or snow—and who's the father of five accomplished c...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

92. Nana's china

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My maternal grandmother's china is definitely not "me." The design of pastel-y flowers is very busy and very, well, grandmoth...
Monday, November 25, 2019

91. Letting go

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I don't eliminate anything lightly—especially gifts from family and loved ones. Almost superstitious about not keeping presents, howeve...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

90. Constructive Criticism

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Criticism is hard. Rather, criticism is hard for me to do. Years ago, when I was sort of an elder-statesperson in the AIGA Mentoring Pro...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

89. Mister Rogers as Life Design Consultant

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Often, I the fact I'm a strong follower as opposed to a strong leader, and that competent as I am, what I can say are great attributes ...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

88. Opthamologist Extraordinaire

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I like and admire Dr. Wayne Whitmore, my ophthalmologist—and am not surprised that he's highly-rated as one of the New York Times bes...
Monday, November 11, 2019

87. Stormy weather; futile difficulties complaining to Norwegian

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Ever since missing a flight years ago when I was an underpaid budding designer working in London who had to take inexpensive charter f...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

86. Following through on a dream. A business that gives joy (from Joy)

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It's a cliché to tell students—or anyone—to follow their passions. To someone who's comfortable being second, or taking the back ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

85. The Colorful Life Mustapha Matura 1939–2019

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Mustapha—the partner and eventual husband of Ingrid Selberg, my decades-long friend from working in London—had a colorful life and a way of...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

84. Election Day

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This post is more about planning than about design. In "doing my homework"—i.e. reading the Voter Guide, Your Nonpartisan guide...
Sunday, November 3, 2019

84. Marie Thurman. 1955–2019

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Preparing for a trip to Europe, I vaguely thought about my friend, the artist   Marie Thurman, whom I hadn't heard from or seen for ye...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

83. Comfortable

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The idea of this auto-challenge is to make me leave my introverted, comfy world and do something different, but here I'm posting someth...

82. Literature shown literally. Illustrating instead of implying the title.

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Such a cliche, but true. Being out of the routine means noticing things that you might normally ignore. In London, for instance, the WH Smi...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

81. London. Home-ish

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It's funny how something so cold and wet and nasty can also be cozy and like home. Even though it was decades—DECADES!—ago that I lived...

80. Suspension and Anticipation (or leaving Long Island)

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Flying anywhere, but especially overseas means that for a number of delicious hours, you're relieved of most tasks (especially if you...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

79. Talk

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I talk about how important teaching students at City Tech in Brooklyn is to me, and went on a vacation (planned prior to my appointment to ...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

78. La vie quotidien

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To complete projects/ads/brochures that seem small to me—except for their importance to my clients—and to prepare for the class I teach on ...
Friday, October 4, 2019

77. Mame as model

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Years ago, while working on an anniversary book for the New York Pops, I met a woman who's confident, organized, delightful, sociable, ...

76. Gurlllz and Nailz

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Getting nails done is unusual, if not exactly out of my comfort zone. A manny-peddy (mani-pedi?) doesn't really make the world a better...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

75. Baking as Remembrance

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My friend of many MANY decades, like us, was poised to mark a big birthday. His wife, my friend of many MANY decades planned a surprise par...

74. Bushwick to Bushwick

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 My former "mentee" Arielle, her mother, her boyfriend, her grandmother, and her grandfather (sort of) are like family at this po...

73. The Town Shop

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I'm a bad and impatient shopper. So, after acknowledging that fiver-year-old bras are shaky foundations, I went to the Upper West Side ...
Friday, September 20, 2019

72. Jane Goodall

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This seems to be my summer of being inspired by octogenarians such as Gloria Steinem, Joan Didion, and Jane Goodall. Although Jane Goodall ...

71. More on The Scar

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Going beyond my comfort level isn't always visual. In fact, most of the time it isn't visual. So, the action for September 19 consi...

70. Booking.comedy

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The spouse and I are both pretty hopeless at planning vacations and booking spots. We procrastinate. We're not brilliant at finding goo...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

69. Founding Mother

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Cokie Roberts * December 27, 1943–September 17, 2019 She was smart, a deep researcher and an engaging writer, and seemed to have a twink...

68. Resilience. The Scar

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Prompted by dinner and great conversation about my late mother, my friend and moderator of our book group sent me a copy of a book   by a d...
Monday, September 16, 2019

67. Commitment and Community

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We enjoyed a wedding on Saturday. I'd say we "attended" a wedding, but that verb seems way too passive for the tradition of h...

66. Practicing the Art of Conversation

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Pursuing the art of conversation after the ceremony at the gorgeous wedding of friends, I complimented a woman on her fabulous raspberry-co...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

65. The Art of Conversation

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One the the most interesting challenges to me is learning about people. In short, a challenge is learning the art of conversation. How do y...
Friday, September 13, 2019

64. Aftermath (9.12)

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So many people have made eloquent posts and speeches and written eloquent elegies that my recollections of the day and the tragedy of 9.11 ...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

63. 9.11

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Eighteen years ago. Surreal. But real. The four of us in the office of BTDnyc  on 9.11.01 were lucky. We were close to the turmoil and far ...
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