Cool Is Not Enough
Christopher GravesOgilvy Public Relations, Washington
If you aren't remembered, then you never existed.-from the Japanese anime series, Serial Experiments Lain Do your work with mastery.
-The Buddha
In 1856, Felix Bracquemond, a Parisian engraver, printmaker, and ceramicist, received a package of ceramics from Japan. Bracquemond was immediately stirred, legend has it, by the flat, bold style of the images on the paper used to protect the ceramics. He showed these woodblock prints to his artist friends, including Manet, Degas, and Whistler, who swiftly began incorporating Japanese motifs in their work....