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

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

Which U.S. cities’ transportation networks are doing the best for the climate?

This new Ikea store has zero parking spaces

In this new neighborhood, every building will be made entirely out of wood

Creativity

Watch this YouTuber’s creative correction of the nightmarish character design in ‘Cats’

What Beyoncé’s Ivy Park x Adidas launch means for the new age of celebrity brands

How Amazon’s new movie ‘Troop Zero’ got its magical realism

Co.Design

Ceramics get a futuristic makeover

Unlike Ikea, this easy-to-assemble couch won’t test your relationship

Move over, princesses. These girls’ clothing brands glorify science

Work Life

These are the 5 most common office injuries

4 signs you might be more ageist than you think

4 ways to get over the new-job jitters