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James Coco never got a poster….

January 13th, 2010

I’m with Coco!

Although this television dispute is out of the focus of this blog, I feel this poster is an important piece of art.

the Tonight Show on Craiglist: Coco’s gone coo coo

January 13th, 2010

4 SALE: BARELY-USED LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW – MAKE ME AN OFFER!!! (Universal Studios)

I got a box of old hangers, and several issues of “Dynamite” magazine from the 70’s. What do you say?

hooray for Hollyhoodz

January 10th, 2010

Hollyhoodz – Hoodies

Carlton or Urkel? Which 90’s dork should I put on the side of my head?

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as/400 burger!!!!!!!1

November 4th, 2009

Filed under weird stuff I’ve done at Help/Systems is this illustration I did today for a blog post on how the IBM AS/400 data server “is a standard in the computing world, sort of like a hamburger in the world of American food.” The idea at first was to just Fotoshop a picture of one of these servers in between two buns, but the image is so crazy, it really had to be an illustration.

as/400 burger!!!!!

Still looks better than English food. The post can be seen here: IBM Power Systems: Serving Millions of Satisfied Customers

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AIGA Design Camp 2009, Day 2: DJ Stout, Ellen Lupton, and famous feedback

October 6th, 2009

After a rousing night of karaoke at the Northwoods Pub, (I must say, my fellow Design Campers have both talent and guts. Mostly guts.) I rushed over to listen to DJ Stout’s speech the next morning, unfortunately missing breakfast. My recollections may be a little spotty as a result.

Stout started by talking about some of the agricultural industry magazines he has redesigned for Pentagram, including such page-turners as American Quarterhorse Journal, Dairy Herd Management, and the periodical that I remember him for, Dairy Today. Instead of having poorly conceived, ultra-literal cover designs like so many of these magazines do, Stout opted to instead feature portraits of individual cows. As a result to this unique approach, Dairy Today moved from third to most popular dairy industry rag. Another example of what good design can do.

read on….