Yesterday

Yesterday was slow at work so I took a couple hours to do some book design research at Borders. It made me feel smug and superior to see all the horrible design mistakes. (To be fair, I was in the self-help business section.) It really also helped to get the yeasty artistic secretions going. Good stuff all the way around.


Around here we (I) call it bloodfire.

Summertime.

Nothing says, "Happy First Day of Summer" quite like a series of fish-looking windsocks and a fake ivy branch in an old 1999 ADDY award cup. I know what you were thinking, this looks more like a tropical drink. Wrong!

Trying to work on my hand-lettered typography. I have about three styles that look ok. I need more. That's where the money's at, my friends.

Chintsy.

Instead of a long post, I'm going for a picture. It's of a logo I invented for a coffeeshop idea Gordon and I have. The picture is of my new favorite guy in the world, Paco Rockwell.


Enjoy your Wednesday and remember: Copyright infringement only sounds bad if you're an uptight shmuck.

Something more: Cherry Coke changed their design again. For a brand with such a recognizable look, they sure can't fight the itch very well. What a clumsy-looking font for "cherry" too. As G-Money put it:

"I pitty the sucker that had to work on it, because you know that they had some marketing schmuck over their shoulder hounding them to put in more cherries."

Couldn't have put it better myself.