Olde Frothingslosh Labels
By Mark Kaufman I’m attending AIGA Seattle Into the Woods design conference this weekend. There will be a beer packaging workshop/panel hosted by a design team from Hornall Anderson Design Works. I don’t think I’ll be taking that workshop, because in my opinion there can be no beer packaging as fun, clever and engaging as […]
American Affairs Desk: The Long, Hot Summer 2010
By Mark Kaufman The end of summer is upon us. Hopefully we can move on from the ridiculous (sharks, Ground Zero Mosques, Piranhas, terror babies, and tea parties) to the sublime. Like how sublimely fucking ridiculous the Election season is going to be.
Found Sketch Found Radiohead Found The Rocket Found
By Mark Kaufman One of those happy accidents when you are looking for something. And you find something altogether different. I found this rough for an illustration I did on Radiohead in the mid 90s for The Rocket newspaper. Not sure if it was for The Bends or OK computer. I forgot about it. I […]
God of Carnage. The Sequel.
By Mark Kaufman This is a new piece that I just did for Seattle Metropolitan Magazine and The Seattle Repertory Theatre’s production of God of Carnage. It’s new, but it’s also a follow up to a logo and illustration project I worked on a few months ago for The Rep. Originally I illustrated one of […]
The New Normal is Keeping Me Too Busy to Blog Lately
But I will be back to blogging all regular like soon. Promise.
Pekar 1939-2010 Kupferberg 1923-2010 Davis 1945-????
By Mark Kaufman On the same shitty day two iconoclastic legends have shuffle[d] off this mortal coil. Harvey Pekar, comic book author, curmudgeon and Clevelander for life, and Tuli Kupferberg, founding member of the Fugs, poet, author activist and cartoonist. Like I said it is a shitty day. The Rule of Threes and poetic justice […]
Collage365: No. 130 / No. 137 / No. 167
By Mark Kaufman Three new collages for your 4th of July BoomBoomBoom.