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.
David Calkins
By Mark KaufmanI was just thumbing through the Seattle Weekly and was stopped in my tracks by this image from David Calkins. Very, very nice. Great type treatment as well. We worked with David many years ago on some radio station rock show materials we designed, so I just wanted to give a big shout […]
My Blechman Period
By Mark KaufmanI found this over the weekend. It’s one of a series of spots I did for the Graphic Artist Guild a few years back. Here’s the final on lobbying along with some rough sketches. The spots were for the various advocacy and legislative initiatives the Guild undertakes on behalf of you, illustrators, designers […]
John Maeda Sketches
By Mark KaufmanThis morning I finally got around to thumbing through Key, the real estate magazine from this past Sunday’s New York Times. What took me so long? The fantasy of looking at mansions, luxury condos and homes that I cannot afford is wearing a little thin these days, but putting that aside, there was […]
Welcome to Nerdville
By Mark KaufmanI spent my entire weekend cleaning out my basement, in particular sorting through thousands upon thousands of comic books and baseball cards. I now have a rash from all of the dust and must of old boxes of comics from the early to late 1970s. It is now time to put away childish […]
Disgusted and Dissappointed
By Mark KaufmanOh Joy! In the letters section of the latest issue of Seattle Metropolitan Monthly is some hate mail about this piece that I did a couple of issues ago. To quote one reader: “…I am disgusted and disappointed at the porking pigs, and here’s why: Stupidly vulgar, a crude cartoon like this appeals […]
9/11. Inside Job. Killed.
By Mark KaufmanHere are a couple of characters I created for an article in The Stranger on 9/11 was an inside job conspiracy theorists. I did 10 drawings of various characters poking, proddding, measuring and pointing figures. Aaron Huffman the Art Director was going to use these on a stark type treatment of the text […]