My Letter to the NEA Regarding Request for Spec Work
The following is my letter to The Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Contracting Officer. The first line is an ironic passage from the Request for Proposals to design an Art Works logo: “…arts workers are real workers with real jobs who are part of this country’s real economy…” This is […]
I Hate the E-Trade Baby
Who’s more ridiculous, the E-Trade baby or readers of the Wall Street Journal?By Mark Kaufman The Wall Street Journal has named the best and worst ads of 2008. The ad getting the most votes is that fucking E-Trade baby. Sweet Jesus I hate that baby and I hate that ad campaign. Sure Americans are suckers […]
Drunken Robot Monster
By Mark Kaufman Big thanks to Chris Laurel and Allison Gegan for sporting one of my masks apparantly while drunkenly coming on to inanimate objects. As all of my work is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks guys!
Orphan Works: Oppose/Support
While the Congress is busy bailing out Wall Street, it found time to pass S. 2913-The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008. Thanks for nothing douchebags. There is a markup of the bill which is HR 5889, since one of these giveaways to big business will become law, The Graphic Artists Guild is urging […]
The Great Little Chimp Rip-Off
By Mark Kaufman Piracy has hit the illustration community website The Little Chimp Society (LCS). A “publisher” out of Hong Kong calling themselves the Great Creativity Organization has basically taken images from LCS contributors and interviews conducted by Darren DeLito of LCS and has without any approvals, any contact, any OK whatsoever and printed them […]
Huckabee + Constitution = Antichrist
By Mark KaufmanI just returned from a month in Italy, and one of the absolute wonders of the world that I saw on my trip was Luca Signorelli’s frescoes in the chapel of S. Brizio, in Orvieto. Breathtaking. The section of the anti-christ, mesmerizing. But not as mind-blowing as Mike Huckabee’s statement that we should […]
Will It Never End?
By Mark KaufmanEach day brings a new affront to the world as we know it. Why, oh why did the person serving up my coffee this morning have to add a smiley face sticker to the lid? Why turn a cup of human kindness into a cup of bitterness and resentment? Yes, it’s a slow […]
Die Emoticon Die
By Mark KaufmanApparently the emoticon is 25 years old today. I hate emoticons, I never use them, die emoticon, die! Miss Manners doesn’t like LOL either.
It’s Good To Be The King
By Mark KaufmanGeorge W. Bush commutes Scooter Libby’s sentence. Happy Independence Day!
London 2012 Olympic Logo. Bloody Hell!
By Mark KaufmanGod save the Queen! Bloody Hell! I just got wind of the newly unveiled London 2012 Olympic logo. I do not know what to say, except that people of all sorts will be talking about this for many, many years to come. Apparently there is quite a fire storm of controversy in the […]