A Kenny Rogers Morning
By Mark Kaufman Wishing you a Kenny Rogers morning. My Kenny Rogers obsession continues. I cannot get the song Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town out of my skull! Check my new t-shirt that I ordered from Kenny Rogers web site. What does this have to do with illustration or design you may ask? […]
Ukraine’s Got Sand Art
By Mark Kaufman Move over Susan Boyle. Kseniya Simonova will blow your freakin’ mind with her sand animation from Ukraine’s Got Talent. The music, the on the fly illustration, the music, the WWII history, the dramatic sand tossing, the performance art stylings, and the lovely bit with the candle. That’s Illustration. That’s entertainment!
You don’t need the Orangina!
By Mark Kaufman I haven’t had much time to post any blog entries lately. Happily we have been very, very busy on the design side of our business. We have been doing everything from annual reports, print and theatre advertising, branding, POP displays, direct mail, brochures, newsletters, white papers and case studies, apparel design, retail […]
Design Taxi Update
By Mark Kaufman Design Taxi the global creative network has updated their web site. Visually it’s a home run, and lot’s of new articles and features to boot. Please check out my online portfolio here. I added lots of new work.
Drawmark Memory Hole: Summer Sin
By Mark Kaufman I am going out of town for a few days and I hope to indulge in all seven deadly sins. Keep cool people.
More Adventures in Compulsive Completism
By Mark Kaufman I happened on Cover Browser recently, where you can view close to half a million comic, magazine, DVD, cigarette packs, cereal boxes, toy packages, postcards and pulp covers in a fairly easy to navigate site. Looking for that German edition of Aquaman or Modesty Blaise pulp to complete your life…er collection? This […]
I Like New Jersey Best
By Mark Kaufman This is why I love my home state of New Jersey. Corruption! Bribery! Extortion! Money Laundering! Bank Fraud! Rabbis! Kidneys! Gucci Handbags! Bags of money! Money in boxes of Apple Jacks!!! As the song says; I’ve been alot of places, seen pictures of the rest but of all the places I can […]
By The Moons of Cronkite
Walter Cronkite. Over the Moon.By Mark Kaufman Happy/Sad Dept: RIP Walter Cronkite. Happy Anniversary Apollo 11. As a boy of 8 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, I can’t begin to tell those who were not born yet how fucking exciting that was. As exciting as it was for an 8 year […]
Where’s My Stimulus?
By Mark Kaufman Treasury Department cancels plans to hire a cartoonist. I do not know who the cartoonist is, but I guess he or she is not too big to fail. See story here.
Canadian Content
By Mark Kaufman Scott Galley from out Toronto way, great line, wonderful composition and strong concepts in tight spaces.