Michael Zipkin Designer

05/25/2017

Recent design gems available for your oohing and ahhing...

05/22/2017

05/16/2017

02/26/2013

Bay Area Design (and Beyond)

01/14/2013

For dance defender Cougar DancingHawk!

Flyer for our dancing friend Cougar's benie this Satuday 1/19!

01/14/2013

Flyer for our dancing friend Cougar's benie this Satuday 1/19!

11/26/2012

After the turkey, the promo: please send all requests for design projects to this table of bounty. Thank you!

10/26/2012

Michael Zipkin | Designer And did you know that master teacher and altogether wonderful human being Zuza Engler will be offering a weekend Soul Motion workshop in Thomas' land November 30 - December 2? No? Well, here: http://movingtoself.com/soul-motion-devotion.html

A sparer, more interior take on Thomas' Sunday morning class in Shelburne, VT.

10/26/2012

Some Work for Soul Motion

10/23/2012

Please support my friend and visionary Michael Goldstein in his Kickstarter campaign to fund his book, "Return of the Light: A Political Fable In Which the American People Retake Their Country" (good idea, yes?). http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/634073327/return-of-the-light-the-year-the-people-retook-ame?ref=live

At an annual celebration in 2120, a storyteller tells why and how the Americans of our times built a movement to retake their country.

10/23/2012

A delightfully nonliteral set of visuals (the 80th anniversary of Kobe, Japan's Mt. Rokko cable car; who knew?) to one of John Coltrane's most beloved ballads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfcz8dzsWPc

10/18/2012

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

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...