Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Another sea­son of Sur­vivor, my favorite tele­vi­sion show, has run its course. In a sur­prise to me and most of the fans of the show, the con­niv­ing and bril­liant tac­ti­cian Rus­sell Hantz won every­thing but the game, being defeated in a lop­sided vote to Natalie White (link). I guess that Sur­vivor can be like chess, […]

I saw this inter­est­ing time­lapse video of the very tal­ented Designer Brian Hoff as he works up dif­fer­ent looks for a logo he is work­ing on.  Any­one who has ever done this can relate to this fun and frus­trat­ing (at times) chore of pick­ing just the right type­face. Often times  I have the per­fect typeface […]

Any­one who has an inter­est in adver­tis­ing, cul­ture or his­tory, should check out the amaz­ing col­lec­tion of tele­vi­sion adver­tis­ing archived by Duke Uni­ver­sity Library. The col­lec­tion is called AdViews: A Dig­i­tal Archive of Vin­tage Tele­vi­sion Com­mer­cials, and is well worth a look. These fine Amer­i­can com­mer­cials date from the 1950’s through the 1980’s and con­tain (as […]