Tag: Design

It would be really cool if museums would organize their permanent collections by color. Right now all art museums organize their permanent collection by style which does create for interesting connetions between artworks. However, it does get a little old…

In modern art museums the color field artists of the 1960s always tend to appear after the action abstract expressionists of the 1940s and 1950s. It makes sense because of the time sequence. But here’s another reason: After seeing all…

Recently I gave 13 recommended design links to a graphic design student: Advertising: A must for anyone interested in advertising. www.adrants.com Publications and newspapers: A must for anyone interested in publications and newspapers. www.newsdesigner.com/blog Illustration: The essential illustration blog. www.drawn.ca…

There should be a list of the official team colors for professional teams. So I’m starting one here. I’m accepting the colors for any team in the NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA. Seeing that I’m a designer for the Tribune,…

One of the great avenues of the world is missing something. A red carpet. Chicago’s Magnificent Mile has wonderful shopping, skyscrapers, historic buildings, and even horse carriages. But now imagine a mile long red carpet on the sidewalk. That would…

There’s plans for a new monster 2,000 foot tall building to appear on the lakefront in Chicago. Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune wrote an excellent review pointing out how the old plan had the tower gracefully pointing upward into…

1999 Cows on Parade 2001 Couches 2001-2004 Wacker Drive Construction   2003 Bobbleheads 2004 Mickey Mouse (Photos courtesy of Vincent Falk) When Chicago does a public art theme, Vincent Falk photographs himself beside every single sculpture with a matching outfit.…

This fall my kickball team won the league championship! We went undefeated for the entire season therefore making us the undisputed the 2006 kickball champions in Chicago. If you want to dispute it, we dare you to bring the challenge…

Here’s a collection of fonts about jokes and graphic design found around the internet. (thanks to Tom Saaristo for emailing me this first joke) —– Four fonts walk into a bar. The barman says, “Get out! We don’t want your…

Both the Rockford News Tower and Elgin Tower appear to have been built recently, however it’s amazing that they were both built just a few years after the Tribune Tower. Tribune Tower: 1922; News Tower: 1930; Elgin Tower: 1929 ————————-…

Mayor Daley and Chicago unveiled their logo for the bid to have Chicago host the 2016 Summer Olympic games. VSA Partners’ Chicago office designed the logo. Here’s my critique of the logo: Flame It’s said that the skyline seen in…

I liked yesterday’s photo so much, that here’s a blog post dedicated to just this photo. You can find it on the MLB website selling a “Property of Bonds” tshirt. It’s interesting the depth of committment MLB has towards Bonds–a…

My brother was working on a really big photoshop file and he got a dialog box saying “erasing hole”. ERASING HOLE! YOU CAN’T ERASE HOLES! YOU CAN ONLY FILL THEM! Can you erase a hole in reality? Cuz a hole…

Q101 stole my video and put it on their “cool” “chicago site” whatswrongwithchicago.com to promote their station. At that site, scroll down to see “DANCE BATTLE” That’s my video that I shot and put up on youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq6iQLJ2f_g. I’m…

The dude (Marco Hort) who fit 210 drinking straws in his mouth graced the cover of the sell sheet I designed when Tribune was syndicating Guinness World Records as a column to other newspapers. Now he’s back breaking the world…

(image from ArchitectureChicago Plus blog) The Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building in downtown Chicago at 300 East Randolph is going to double its height by adding another building right smack on top of it. According to the ArchitectureChicago Plus blog, The…

Here’s the official forecast for spring 2007 colors from Pantone. Which one of these colors is your favorite? Offical Pantone Color My Comments PANTONE 12-1206 Silver Peony C= 3 M=13 Y=15 K “My flesh” This is the nudie shirt color…

I’m a newspaper designer that has to adhere to the AP Style Guide. Anytime a caption mentions a USA state location I have to use the AP style to abbreviate the state name. Ala. Kan. Nev. S.C.Ariz. Ky. N.H. S.D.Ark.…

Graphic designers in America are projected to show a 24% increase in jobs by 2012 (from 197,460 in 2002 to 244,320 in 2012, according to projectionscentral.com) In 2002 Illinois there was 8,590 Graphic Designers. They are projecting in 2012, there…

(A continuing analysis of advertisements that appear in “The Trucker” newspaper.) The text in the ripped part of the ad reads “WANTED: Honest, Dependable, Safe & Hard Working*” Raawr! Yeah! Right on! This ad definitely appeals to the machismo of…

On a quiet, loaded rush hour El (Chicago transit train), there were two older people that were networking, talking business, and exchanged business cards. The usual daily rush hour train in Chicago is a silent box filled with sleepy workers…

It’s amazing that this one designer has done the logos for ‚Ä¢ American League 100th Anniversary ‚Ä¢ Anaheim Angels ‚Ä¢ Basketball Hall of Fame ‚Ä¢ Milwaukee Brewers (1994-1999) ‚Ä¢ Brooklyn Cyclones (minor league baseball) ‚Ä¢ Fenway Park 90th Anniversary ‚Ä¢…

Rick Steves—THE name in travel guides. He’s now writing a newspaper column and Tribune Media Services is syndicating him to newspapers across the country. I designed the sell sheet to help the salespeople to convince newspaper editors to buy his…

Inside my can of Pringles Prints was a potato chip that had the words “Printed fun on every one” and a weird pattern. At first I just thought it was just a fun different chip, but then I realized that…

Photo taken by Nick King, Antalya, Southern Turkey It’s incredibly amazing how the moon exactly covers the sun when viewed from earth. The sun couldn’t be any bigger or smaller. The moon couldn’t be any bigger or smaller. And then…

I’m thinking of making website called “i don’t know how to cook” and it will follow through my progress as a bachelor cooking, cuz I’m like REALLY bad at cooking. My big ah-ha moment today was putting a can of…

Kevin Hulsey spent 720 hours on this. That’s 18 weeks of 40-hour weeks (4.5 months). Wow.

I recently submitted some work to the Highland Park Art Walk, and they require an artist bio, so here’s a rough draft. Any comments or suggestions are very welcome. Matt Maldre, a native Chicago artist, earned his Bachelor of Fine…

A logo for my fantasy baseball league, the Amazing League on mlb.com’s Beat the Streak Client: Me Fonts: LionelClassic and LampLighter Script from fontdiner.com

Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, unveiled PANTONEView Home 2007, the eight most directional color palettes for the home furnishings market for 2007. Here’s one of the eight palettes:…

A couple days ago I added 16 missing design and illustration items to spudart.org: