Rick Barrack

Rick Barrack is the Chief Creative Officer/Partner at CBX and one of its founding partners. As lead creative he is responsible for inspiring, directing and motivating the creative teams to develop powerful design solutions. Barrack has close to 20 years of experience in corporate identity and consumer brand identity design. He has led major design initiatives for companies such as IBM, Hewlett Packard, Petro-Canada, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, and Del Monte Foods. Prior to creating CBX, Barrack was a Senior Design Director at FutureBrand and Design Director at LPK. [www.cbxblog.com]

Innovation By Design

The Brain-Dead Design Behind The USDA’s New Dietary Chart

To see whether he wasn’t the only one baffled by the chart’s lame graphics, Rick Barrack interviewed the proverbial guy on the street.

The Brain-Dead Design Behind The USDA’s New Dietary Chart

For Twitter’s 5th Birthday, New Grown-Up Logos

You’ve grown to 140 million tweets per day and impacted global politics. It’s time you moved beyond the cartoon birdie. Here’s three takes on a new Twitter logo.

For Twitter’s 5th Birthday, New Grown-Up Logos

You Asked, and Rick Answers: A Revamp Of the Sherwin-Williams Logo

In January, Rick Barrack asked you what logo most needed an overhaul. The answer? Sherwin-Williams. Here’s his stab at a quick refresh.

Could You Create a Brand That Celebrates Reuse Instead of Consumption?

How the USPS Can Rebrand Itself: Clever Pop Up Shops

Hey Dems, GOP, and Tea Party! We Redid Your Crappy Logos

05.28.10 | 1:45 am

Indy500’s Danica Effect: Brands, Are You Listening?

Indy500’s Danica Effect: Brands, Are You Listening?

04.28.10 | 2:10 am

Beware of Ad Creeps on the Golf Course

Beware of Ad Creeps on the Golf Course

03.30.10 | 12:45 am

Sign of Humanitarian Relief That Anyone Can Understand

Sign of Humanitarian Relief That Anyone Can Understand

Impact

This interactive database lets you access hard data about police use of force

This nonprofit renovates abandoned Baltimore houses—and then sells them at a discount to local residents

This program is testing what happens when you give cash to people leaving prison

News

Warby Parker goes public: what to know about WRBY’s direct listing on the NYSE

‘Hey, Disney!’ Amazon rolls out new voice assistant for Orlando resorts and Echo devices

Fear of delta variant surges, hospitalizations, and death drove more people to get vaccinated

Co.Design

A $3 billion maintenance backlog threatens U.S. diplomacy

Three ways to design for everyone—and the planet

SheaMoisture CEO Cara Sabin isn’t just marketing to Black consumers—she’s investing in them

Work Life

This is how your brain tricks you into thinking you don’t have time for important stuff

This is why you’re never satisfied with your accomplishments, according to science

Innovation Festival 2020

These female showrunners reveal the truth about Hollywood diversity