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Live Forever Competition Recap
The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition, Live Forever, hosted by Archinect.com and Bustler.net, announced its winners last month. In case you were too busy commemorating the King of Pop in your own way, here's a recap: Baddest: A digital c...
Contribute to the Identity Archives Project!
San Francisco designer Gabe Ruane has launched the Identity Archives Project, a growing online database of logos submitted by their respective designers worldwide. Anyone can submit a logo, providing it "is/was a client approved design, and that i...
How Can I Keep $1,000? A History of Paula Scher's Paintings
Paula Scher is as well known for her map paintings as her graphic & environmental design. In this video, Scher explains that she painted her first map as a way to make an expense-free cover for an AIGA annual in order to keep the allotted $1,000 b...
AdViews : Vinatage TV Commercial Bonanza!
The perfect complement to a Mad Men addiction? AdViews, a recently launched online collection of TV commercials from the 50s through the 80s. The ads are part of the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives at Duke University. The agency (and its pr...
Hubby Hubby
A special post for Vermont readers (I know there's at least one of you): For the month of September you can show your support of the state's decision to legalize gay marriage by eating Hubby Hubby, a specially renamed version of Ben & Jerry's clas...
The Omnivore's Dilemma : In Action On The Best-Sellers List
Michael Pollen devotes a section in his book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" to what he calls "America's National Eating Disorder." Pollen writes, "America has never had a stable national cuisine; each immigrant population has brought its own foodways to...
Microsoft : Not Too Savvy With Photoshop
An already bland MSFT web promo featuring an ethically diverse office trio took a turn for the worse when the image appeared altered on the company's Polish website. The Photoshopper did a real hatchet job, leaving behind the original man's right ...
Girls + Cheap Paper = Multiple notes to self
Note to self #1: Buy "100 Girls on Cheap Paper," a book of drawings by Tina Berning, when Chronicle publishes it in the US next month. Note to self #2: Get lost in Berning's drawings: http://www.tinaberning.online.de/ Note to self #3: Resurrect sk...
Pre-Photoshop Photoshopping
via nytimes.com " 'The very nature of photography was to record events,' said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth University and a detective of photographic fakery. 'You'd think there would have been a grace period of respect ...