The Small Stakes: Music Posters by Jason Munn
By Mark Kaufman Most rock posters leave me cold. They usually have nothing going for them other than the cool factor, in other words, “hey, that’s cool!”. No thought goes into them, the imagery usually has nothing to do with the band or the music, or anything for that matter, simply a designer showing off. […]
World Cup Poster Design
By Mark Kaufman As of this writing it is 9 days, 14 hours, 47 minutes, and 10 seconds until the 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa. Here are three of my favorite World Cup posters, Switzerland 1954, Argentina 1978, and Italia 90. Since I’ll have the fever, I’ll post some other soccer related […]
Good Sheet
By Mark Kaufman If you love design, if you love magazines, if you love reading about issues, you already know about Good Magazine. The folks at Good are also working with Starbucks and have something called the Good Sheet, a small publication, printed on newsprint, but packed with information. It is available on a weekly […]
Word Up
By Mark Kaufman Lovely chart and table designed by Matthew Erickson at the New York Times outlining the buzzwords floating around at the Democratic and Republican national conventions. An interesting snapshot of where both parties are, what they want to connect with voters about, and trial balloons for campaign issues from here until November 4.
Garden Party
By Mark KaufmanSome very good news today from very good friends and clients, Gavin Groves and TJ Montague Groves of Garden Party Flowers. Better Homes & Gardens Magazine has highlighted their rose stem cleaner in their “Our Favorite Tools” section. The rose cleaning device designed and invented by Mr. Groves is also available for sale […]
Election Season: Flag Pins
By Mark KaufmanIt is most definitely election season. My favorite time of the year, every dang year. I just got a nice book from Sappi Fine Paper, celebrating Presidential buttons from 1840-2008. The book was designed by VSA Partners, and it is definately a keepsake item. There is also a cross promotion with 24-7 Design […]
Beautiful Air
Mark KaufmanI’ve noticed the new Alaska Airlines West Most campaign recently, and they use a wonderful graphic treatment of the airline route map, seen here in the upper left corner (appropriately enough) of the route map collage I made. I love maps and charts and information graphics of all sorts, but one of my favorite […]
Ovalballs = Awesome
By Mark KaufmanI was rooting around the interweb last night looking for something or other and came upon a great rugby completist site, Ovalballs.com. I do not understand rugby at all, I do not know the first thing about the game, but I do know awesomeness when I see it. The site has a great […]
Talk to The Graphics Director of The New York Times
By Mark Kaufman Want to know something about how the Old Grey Lady creates graphics? This week you can ask a question of Steve Duenes, the Graphics Director of The New York Times. This seems to me to be a rare chance to find out something you’ve been dying to know about charts, diagrams, maps, […]
Posterizing the Modern GOP
By Mark KaufmanThis is one of a series of Huffington Post posters by Rich Silverstein that clearly illustrates the seminal events, people and slogans of the Grand Old Party. Go to the site to see the others, weigh in on what’s missing from the laundry list from hell, for this ongoing project. I wish we […]