Posts under ‘Design’

I was at the park with my kids play­ing in the sand box and I recalled this quote from Chip Kidd’s won­der­ful novel The Cheese Mon­keys: A Novel in Two Semes­ters: “Design is pur­pose­ful plan­ning… Graphic design is the form those plans will take.” Between the juice boxes and push­ing kids on the swing I […]

I saw this great post on Brian Hoff’s site and I thought I’d play along. Here’s my ABC URL game. It’s a fun game and as Brian says,
The rules are sim­ple: Launch your favorite, most fre­quently used browser for surf­ing the web. Start by typ­ing, one let­ter at a time, the entire alpha­bet into the search […]

The New Yorker Mag­a­zine has a tra­di­tion of excel­lent, chal­leng­ing and often times con­tro­ver­sial cov­ers for its weekly mag­a­zine. This was evi­dent dur­ing the pre­vi­ous Amer­i­can elec­tion, with two cov­ers illus­trat­ing the stereo­types of both can­di­dates (see here and here). The pro­pri­ety and taste­ful­ness of the cov­ers cre­ated some­thing of a polit­i­cal firestorm, or at […]

This is pretty inter­est­ing. Andy Warhol dig­i­tally paint­ing a pic­ture of Deb­bie Harry with a Com­modore Amiga at a prod­uct launch press con­fer­ence in 1985!
Add one part Andy Warhol of soup can fame, a dash of Deb­bie Harry of Blondie and toss in the Amiga and you get an amaz­ing stew of early 80’s pop […]

When you visit the Deke Lounge to expe­ri­ence some liq­uid learn­ing make sure you take off your shoes. The incom­pa­ra­ble Deke McClel­land and Colleen Wheeler do another bang up job in the Lounge this week. Join­ing them again are Rus­sell Brown, the Bill Nye of Pho­to­shop (okay it’s just the white lab coats that make […]

Great film logo openings

I am a big fan of Deke McClel­land. A Deke Geek so to speak. He just started a new audio pod­cast to com­pli­ment his already excel­lent video pod­cast, deke­pod. You should check out the show he is co-hosting with Colleen Wheeler called The Mar­tini Hour.
It mixes some of my favorite things. Kitschy Lounge set­tings, fancy […]