The Rooster of Barcelos
Six hundred years later the Galo de Barcelos is the unofficial symbol of Portugal. You see the little hand-painted ceramic rooster on every shelf of every souvenir shop in the country: black body, red comb, a heart on its chest. A national emblem that belongs to a town of about sixty thousand people in the Minho, the green wedge of northern Portugal between Porto and the Spanish border.See More
A Guiding Light: New England's Lighthouses
Lighthouses are a unique design challenge. Track down all the most likely places that a ship might crash into, from the tip of the most remote peninsula to the smallest, rockiest, most storm beaten island out to sea. See More
Marco Pantani
In Stage 12 of the 2000 Tour de France, on the sunburnt alpine moonscape of Mont Ventoux, Lance Armstrong launched one of his most famous attacks, flying out of the ailing peloton on a brutal ascent like an e-bike delivery driver in order to track down the stage leader, the Italian folk hero Marco Pantani, who was on one of the rides of his career. As Armstrong caught Pantani and the two greatest climbers of their era spent the last few kilometers in a one on one duel, the contrast between them highlighted the yin and yang of pro cycling.See More
Monhegan Island
By the turn of the century, it had become a true destination for American painters, led by the trio of Bellows, Rockwell Kent, and Robert Henri, who worked there together during Monhegan’s Golden Age from 1903 until around World War I, often in conjunction with other painters of different styles, from watercolors to impressionism to traditional naturalistic landscapes. Paris may have had La Belle Epoch but America had a bunch of guys on a cold, windswept rock painting seagulls.See More
Adsum + Gramicci Behind the Scenes
Remember when your teacher would say "show your work." That always annoyed us but maybe it hinted at a bigger truth we would come to learn; that the process behind something sometimes tells a story just as compelling as the final result. In honor of that, we wanted to share a little behind-the-scenes of our latest Gramicci campaign. See More