Michael Walsh, the art director of the Visual Arts Press, asked me to
do the next SVA subway poster this past January. I was completely blown
away, and of course, said I'd be honored. The next day, the lovely Ric
Grefe from AIGA called to tell me I was getting the 2008 Lifetime
Achievement Medal. I assumed that before the end of that glorious week,
I'd get clocked by a car on my bike ride home and would linger in a
coma that would last beyond both the poster deadline and the big AIGA
gala in September. Surprisingly, I've been spared (though I'm still
waiting for an anvil to fall on my head). …
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