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 was once the largest steel mill in the world. Now it’s going to build clean energy infrastructure

5 ways to separate real ESG leadership from greenwashing

These gorgeous renewable energy hubs used to be coal plants

News

Is delta plus worse than the delta variant? Here’s what the latest research says

This is where hateful trolls go after they are banned from mainstream social media

Million-dollar duds: Glitzy vaccine lotteries fail to lift state vaccination rates

Co.Design

Most of our exposure to air pollution happens indoors

The hot new startup backed by Kyrie Irving, Carmelo Anthony, and Issa Rae? It’s an urban planner’s dream

Would you reuse the same trash bag for years? This startup is betting on it

Work Life

My competitor seems to be the new darling of customers and investors. What should I do?

3 ways to delegate without forfeiting your power

5 ways to get a backbone in business—without becoming the company bully