meet colin

I’m an author, editor, content consultant, speaker, and award-winning design journalist with 15 years of experience working with editors and business clients. Trained as a creative writer, I bring a focused, professional approach to all my assignments –– from magazine features to corporate communications, from art and design books to short stories, memoirs, and radio commentaries. I live in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.

Read my detailed biography here.

recent projects

  • Great piece last weekend on Sticker Art for KQED's "California Report."  listen  more
  • Just finished my review of Chronicle Books' Art of McSweeney's for Print magazine.  about
  • More work from Sterling Brands in New York — Soap! Pet food! More ice cream!  about  Häagen-Dazs
  • Additional writing and editing work for Ascendant, a company helping men be Better Men.  more
  • I wrote an article for Preservation about the Watts Towers; I'll post it when it becomes available.  about
  • Finishing up an essay for the new edition of Fingerprint, to be published by CDA.  more
  • I spoke to Michael Dooley's "History of Design" class at Loyola Marymount University.  more  about
  • I profiled two designers — the team Always With Honor and Mikey Burton — for a recent issue of Print.  more  even more
  • Boing Boing published my review of guerrilla artist Robbie Conal's new book.  more
  • My story about Google Building Maker appeared recently in Make magazine.  more  about
  • My Print cover story, "A Brief History of Design, 1999-2009," will be repackaged as an e-book.  more
  • Melcher Media hired me to write a proof-of-concept book for Autodesk, the 3D software leader.  more  about
  • With Isabel Samaras, I wrote and co-produced On Tender Hooks, her first monograph, for Chronicle Books.  more