Archive for March 2011
The Center of Attention
March 25, 2011 | No Comments | View
It’s no secret that music and graphic design are good friends. From cover art to gig posters, some of the most public-facing, living-room-resting, limit-pushing and mind/heart-imprinting graphic design lives as the visual barkers for our favorite (recording) artists and their works. There are countless online troves of album and gig poster art good and bad, [...]
Lucky Strikes Again
March 18, 2011 | No Comments | View
This week we’re stepping back from the ‘we’ position, making the first person thing happen. So make welcome Michael Wheeler, as he expands on cereal, design, and nostalgia, all within the theme befitting the day after St. Patty’s Day. General Mills got me again. Now I’m the mostly-proud owner of not one or two different [...]
Tags: identity > illustration > point-of-purchase > shopping
Keeping it Real When Things Get Real
March 11, 2011 | No Comments | View
The power of a natural disaster reaches even further and deeper than the lands and lives in its immediate scope. The news last night and today of the Pacific earthquake and tsunami hits those of us out of harm’s way square in our hearts and minds with new speed and clarity. With this or any [...]
Step Right Up: Carnivals, Building the Tip, and Advertising
March 4, 2011 | No Comments | View
Recently, masters of the internet sideshow BoingBoing published a great little post on Ward Hall, ‘the King of the American Sideshow’, writing the following: “”Ward Hall is a sideshow legend — magician, fire-eater, sword swallower, and famed “talker” responsible for luring carny patrons into the ten-in-one. Sixty years after he first took the midway stage, [...]