This week is National Egg Salad Week, but then May is National Egg Month. Wouldn’t it make eggcellent sense if National Egg Salad Week was in the same month as the National Egg Month?
Chicago Cubs radio announcers Ron Santo and Pat Hughes have the attendance guessing game. White Sox tv announcers Ken Harrelson and Darren Jackson have the pick to click bet. The Chicago Cubs tv broadcasters Steve Stone and Chip Caray should…
Why don’t we have more parking garages in the city? Is there something that people don’t like about them? There is an obvious parking problem in the city, why not build more parking garages?
At Wrigley Field the Chicago Cubs are bringing the brick wall behind homeplate closer to the field, creating 213 extra “Dugout Box Seats”. The cost of the seats are: * $50: value added games. * $100: regular games * $250:…
There is no such thing as the font Univers Condensed Black, yet there is a Univers Extended Black. Oh, the poor condensed, so skinny yet not deserving of the super fat weight.
Being able to look into the future would be an incredible power. But what about being able to look into the past? We have that power, but in limited quantities based on our own experience. But what about the extreme…
News in Motion sells computer-generated animation clips to TV stations and websites. Here is their folder and a sampling from the 12 different sheets included in the kit. The previous marketing collateral for them involved lots of full-bleed photoshop work…
I don’t know how many graphic dorks we have on here (I know we have a few), but what is your favorite pantone color? A folder solid flush with 021. Bam! talk about bright!
Whenever we get a new employee, I like to leave a little welcome note on the person’s desk before they come in for their first day. These welcome notes have been growing each time. This time there is a little…
Dropping truck driving terms in an office conversation is like an air-horn of fresh thinking. (From the April 2004 issue of Men’s Health) Bad Load: Cargo that doesn’t pay much. “The Tate project is such a bad load, I can’t…
I’m designing a label for a foam rocket, and recently did some research at Walgreens. Small cylinder products that lay down horizontally almost always have the main logo on both sides of the product. i.e. candy While larger cylinder products…
You know you’ve been playing with photoshop brushes too long when you’re outside in public and you start to see all these textures that you could create with a photoshop brush. “Dude, look at the sidewalk, that’s totally like a…
This applies to Chicago’s mass transit system. (The metra has a different system) Front and back car: not in a rush, easy going Middle car (where most CTA exit stairways are): In a rush. Packed. On a mission–wanting to be…
Inspired by Stuart’s doodle page, my blog will now be featuring doodles! Here’s the first one. Check out the medium scan, and the super huge scan. These were drawn while waiting for pdfs to rip on my computer. It’s not…
Today there was a Free Tibet March/Uprising in downtown Chicago in the Pioneer Court by the Tribune Tower on Michigan Ave. The 45th annual event that happens every year on March 10 by the Tibetan Alliance of Chicago. Here’s the…
When designers are talking about a PMS color, they are speaking about the Pantone Matching System. It’s quite a ubiquitous term in the industry to say, “oh i wanted a PMS 186 on that job.” But click here to check…
