Still vicious, still vibrant: The Threepenny Opera
“Yeah, yeah. ‘Mack the Knife.’ ‘Pirate Jenny. We know….” But maybe you don’t know that Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill changed the course of musical theater. They brought agitprop to […]
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200 countries for 200 years in 4 minutes
One of the great uses of graphic design is helping a viewer envision dense and complex information. Take a look at this wonderful clip from BBC-TV. Swedish doctor and health […]
Colbert’s Quintessential Art Rant
As far as I’m concerned, Stephen Colbert is a comedy genius. So when I finally managed to watch my TiVo’d pre-holiday episodes of the Colbert Report and heard this hilarious […]
Luscious colors
“Luscious” is the first of a series of videos from Sappi Paper company. We try very hard not to spec colors this way. Instead, we just tell our printers, “Make […]
Everything but the squeal
You know the old phrase about pigs, right? Well Christien Meindertsma has taken it upon herself to track exactly what happens in the afterlife of a typical pig. Amazingly, our […]
A very geeky Christmas
As Leo Laporte correctly pointed out, this is not one of those moments where the musicians are using a cell phone just to get a weird sound. This is (mostly) […]
Negativity: not always a bad thing
I recently discovered a nice post on Irish designer David Airey’s blog, Logo Design Love. It’s a collection of 35 logos that make effective use of negative space. For you […]
How We Decide
Why did I decide to go to Peets this morning instead of Starbucks? Why am I writing this blog post instead of focusing on a client’s project, catching up on […]
Remaking the globe. Over and over.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgErv6M19yY] Sometimes I like to post things just because they’re cool. My associate Amy Crossan found this great little video on how they manufacture globes. Printing an accurate map on […]
Typographic treasure
Back in the ancient pre-Mac days, there was a masterful typographic designer named Herb Lubalin. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. He developed a publication for ITC called U&lc which featured […]