Commercial Artisan

09/17/2024

Commercial Article 16 is now available!!!
Dale Messick and Brenda Starr:
Breaking Barriers and Hitting Deadlines
Written by Connie Zeigler

For nearly fifty years, Dale Messick wrote and drew Brenda Starr, Reporter, one of the most popular comic strips in the country! As the first syndicated female comic strip creator, Messick was a trailblazer in the male-dominated world of newspaper comics! Now Commercial Article brings you her remarkable story!

And this issue we are joined by podcast superstar Debbie Millman, who shares her own story of how Brenda Starr became a lifeline at a difficult point in her young life!

Get yours now at www.commercialarticle.com !!!!

11/11/2021

New edition of Commercial Article out now!!!! Written by Connie Zeigler, this issue recounts the tremendous impact the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 1800s had on the artists, designers and craftspeople of Indianapolis. Available here now : https://www.commercialarticle.com !!!

03/22/2021

Very happy to share the first few pages of the Year In Review publication we designed for AIA Indianapolis! It’s the 21st year in a row that we’ve been fortunate enough to work with them on this fun document of their activities!

01/18/2021

So happy to have had the opportunity to work with the amazing Kelly Huff and her fantastic Huff Homes team on their bold, new identity!!!

12/01/2020

Noted design historian and educator Steven Heller discusses the new Jan Ruhtenberg issue of Commercial Article in his Daily Heller column! Get yours today — a perfect gift for that hard to please Modernist on your list!!! Available now at commercialarticle.com.

“Commercial Article” shines a light on Indiana's design history, and the latest issue features the fascinating Modernist Jan Ruhtenberg.

11/01/2020

Very happy to announce that Commercial Article is now available at San Francisco’s William Stout Architectural Books, and of course, here: https://www.commercialarticle.com .

09/24/2020

The 13th edition of Commercial Article is now available! This issue tells the fascinating story of founding Modernist architect Jan Ruhtenberg, and how his astounding legacy has been lost to time . . . until now! https://www.commercialarticle.com/product/b-13-br-jan-ruhtenberg-b

09/18/2020

Very happy to share the new identity we designed for our friends at the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic — an amazing organization that offers a huge range of programming to the Columbus community!

08/07/2020

Check out this very cool Bauhaus “exhibit” from the Getty Research Institute:

This online exhibition offers an in-depth look into the novel pedagogy of the Bauhaus, highlighting student explorations, masters’ theories, and a variety of colorful media drawn from the Getty Research Institute’s archives.

06/15/2020

New design for the upcoming American Pianists Association Classical Awards competition! Dates are placeholders for the time being.

04/03/2020

So sad to see this . . .

I/C is done; long live I/C

https://indcontemporary.org/press-release/ic-to-close