It’s reared its ugly head in the terrain of Northern Spain. Now Comic Sans is making an appearance at Gabrielli HQ. Can nothing stop the horror?
The inset picture from his latest Education ad.
Adrian finds the worst in stock photography. Be A Design Group also points out a great list of stock photo cliches. Interestingly, the photo cliches seem to touch on the deeper advertising cliches - and dare I add the cliches in business discourse - contained in televisual advertising as well as print.
Be A Design Group points out a website of a collector of soft drink cans. They’re right, it’s a treasure for those interested in the history of design. My favorite are the Fresca cans from the 60s and 70s:
Source: USA Soda.com
What’s changed of course is that strong graphic elements no longer are used to pitch […]
Over at Be a Design Group, Paul Berkbigler complains about the stripping down of graphic impact in logos. He points out a before and after tale between a heyday of corporate design and the watered down, overly rendered style of today. His example is UPS, but I think that changes in Coke and Sprite designs […]
For those who haven’t seen, the Bostonist, spinoff of Gothamist is up and running. There are still a few kinks to iron out (trackback URLs that read chicagoist.com) and sometimes I feel that the writers don’t know Boston all that well. But misgivings I might have succumb to the success of the site itself. This […]
Travis at Be a Design Group points out one thoughtful prediction for the next year’s graphic design color palette. Useful stuff. Like purple as the new pink, and browns replacing grays.
Source: Adam Polselli’s 2005 Color Forecast
I wish I Heart Huckabee’s would dispense with the shameless “get them talking” marketing plan - can’t they just tell us what the damned film’s about? I’ll go see it, I swear. But I did love this pastiche of nonprofit logo design on the film website:
The ‘child script’ one is my favorite.
Through a trackback to this site, I’ve discovered an excellent group blog on graphic design called Be a Design Group. Lots of great analyses of print and television advertising, discussion of typography and book reviews. At the very least check out their hilarious post on a “giant kitty” ad.
Via South Knox Bubba and some internet perusal, I’ve reacquainted myself with MetroPulse, weekly alternarag of my former stomping grounds, and noticed an interesting article by one Matt Edens, a guy who was in a number of my undergrad classes. A presumed real estate listing for an Old North Knoxville house, the piece is really […]
This Sunday CNN will be looking back at the Dean campaign:
I do like the design of the promo and even its tongue-in-cheek humor. But is casting him as some cross between Marxist revolutionary and evangelist preacher really fair?
Everyone is busy with their summations of the Dean candidacy, what went right and what went wrong. See for instance, Timothy Noah’s critique of fake populism in Slate. I don’t really have anything thing to add to the substance of the issue. But since politics is in no small part about style over substance, I […]
Breaking news: the New York Times is changing its typeface choices, or at least streamlining them:
In place of a miscellany of headline typefaces that have accumulated in its columns over the last century, the newspaper is settling on a single family, Cheltenham, in roman and italic versions and various light and bold weights. A narrow […]
Has anyone noticed that the Clonaid equipment looks suspiciously like an Easy Bake oven?