Apparently, a poster design I did in school is being used as a supporting graphic in articles – which is cool because:
1) Even though the actual poster is sitting in my closet collecting dust (sorry Professor Byrne), it’s being somewhat useful to others
1) It means that my poster is successful in correctly communicating the idea of Innovation. Which is much better than the actual grade I received on it (heh heh)

Here are the articles I’m talking about:
Nurturing an Innovation Driven Culture by Michael Plishka
Gelecein is yapsn tasarlamak by Yusuf Ozan (and no, I can’t read it either).

Now I’m just waiting for a phone call from a publisher that wants to use it in a book. I wouldn’t mind having some extra rent money. But I guess for now I’ll keep searching the image name in Google to see where else it’s popping up.

Or even better, it may be coming to a PowerPoint near you. Let me know. Every company has a PowerPoint on innovation, right?

See my name in the credits? Ok so there were 20 other people mentioned on that page but hey, it’s nice to be recognized in a published book.

The book is called “Market This! A 90-day Marketing Tool”, by Sherry Prescott-Willis. She came to my company’s creative team about a year ago with the opportunity to work on her book cover and we went wild with it — creative projects like this are rare, and so refreshing. And what could be more challenging than marketing a marketing book?

I wish I could show you all the designs we did for her book cover, because they were all fantastic. Here are the three final designs from my company’s creative team. I did the first two, my creative director did the last one (which is what you’ll see on the bookshelves now).

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