New Haloid Company Logo
By Mark KaufmanAnyone remotely familiar with American corporate history is well aware that The Haloid Company of which I speak is actually Xerox. One of the great corporate names has a new logo. I am not sure why they changed what I thought was one of the great corporate logos to something resembling Xbox or […]
Dropping Science
By Mark KaufmanHere’s a spot I did a short while back for a disturbing story about HIV vaccine trials that were abruptly halted. The data showed that patients in the trial actually became more vulnerable to the HIV virus. A sad story all around.
Pale, Rested and Ready
I am back from my Roman holiday. Here is a shot of Jacki and I on New Year’s Eve in Rome. it was crazier than Times Square, with fireworks, and punks lighting M-80s left and right, spumante and wine bottles aplenty. A big explosion had my ears ringing for a few hours. Our trip to […]
Signing Statements
By Mark KaufmanWhen W or any other President uses signing statements, he (or she) is basically showing us what they think of the Constitution. Good news off the campaign trail on this travesty though. John McCain was asked about George Bush’s use of signing statements, he is against the practice. Now if we can only […]
Mr. Whipple VS Charmin Bears
By Mark KaufmanDick Wilson, the character actor who played Mr. Whipple the store manager that implored the world to not squeeze the Charmin died today at the ripe age of 91. Which brings me to those awful Charmin Bears. Normally I applaud cartoon characters over real-life human ones to shill the American dream, but in […]
To Do List: Collage
By Mark KaufmanI was frantically searching my desk for something (which I didn’t find) and found this small booklet of collages that I did a while back at the AIGA Seattle Into the Woods conference. I always loved collage, the work of John Heartfield has certainly inspired the political bent to my work. After the […]
Norman Mailer
By Mark KaufmanNorman Mailer passed away on Saturday at the age of 84. A true American original, I first heard of him when I was 8 or 9 years old when he was running for Mayor of New York with Jimmy Breslin back in 1969. I didn’t know he was a writer. I knew Breslin […]
Hey That’s Cool. No, Wait That’s Crap!
By Mark KaufmanI got a big poster from Corbis the other day touting some kind of Golden Discount. Beats me what the hell this offer is. This is one of those “Design for Design Sake” pieces. On first glance it looks oh so cool, but on second glance, the one where you stop to actually […]
Yo no lo entiendo, pero yo lo quiero
By Mark KaufmanI don’t understand it but I like it. Papel Continuo is a Spanish language blog I came across today that is just wonderful. It looks like a dot matrix print and has great graphics, illustrations, design and retro content. Muy fresco!
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 […]