Tattooed fruits, stickered bikes, toured typographers and more in this edition of Quipsologies.
“What would a child’s drawing look like if it were painted reallistically?”
Sick and tired of those damn little fruit labels? They hear you. Soon to be found in a grocery store near you, tattooed fruit.
Google could be added to Standard & Poor’s 500 — an index considered to be a benchmark of the overall stock market that is comprised of 500 widely-held Blue Chip stocks representing industrial, transportation, utility and financial companies — within 12 months.
David Cabianca interview with Ed Fella on the cranbrook.com site.
Ex-New York bike messenger/graffiti artist Futura 2000 (Lenny McGurr to his mother) and Nike designer Mark Smith collaborated on a series of bike stickers which adorned Lance Armstrong’s bike in the Tour de France. Each day, a different story from Armstrong’s life was told along his upper crossbar. (wmv file)
And it looks like Nike will be issuing t-shirts.
Guy Trebay talks about how T-shirts are having a renaissance thanks to evocative graphic design in this New York Times article.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg declares Type Week in New York City. TypeCon begins, kicking off a phenomenon likened to Star Trek conventions.
Last weekend we ate at a small Mexican restaurant around the corner from our apartment, it was small and delicious. We grabbed a delivery menu and a little postcard and were pleasantly surprised with their logo, it looked like it was actually touched by a designer. And, the back, look! Isn’t that cute?
“Their conversation can quickly descend into the slightly self-satisfied jargon of any specialty,” reports Randy Kennedy for The New York Times, who tagged along this past steamy Thursday joining Paul Shaw and a dozen attendees for the Typography Tours during Typecon, “with talk of uncial script, ligatures and serif slants, along with frequent references to Trajan’s Column in Rome, an ancient source of Western letter forms.” New Yorkers, meanwhile, went on with their jargon-filled day. [Same link as Jason’s, different angle — redundant?]
Von Glitschka writes, (edited for brevity): “A few months back I was waiting at a stop light and a tree service truck pulled up right next to me. I casually looked over at it then returned my gaze to the stop light, I then twisted my head around and did a double take. Well today I noticed one of their trucks again in a parking lot. I jumped out of my car and went over and asked for a business card. What strikes me now looking at it after a few months is that the tree looks far less like a tree then I originally remembered. It looks more like a… well… a bush of sorts. (Pardon the pun). Behold a classic example of an ‘Unfortunate Visual Association’ when it comes to a logo.”
Von later reports: “Not sure if anyone has discussed this or not? The Type Directors Club logo [designed by Gerard Huerta] has been clearly ripped off by the folks at Desert Troon Companies.” You decide.
That tree service logo is hilarious. And dirty. So, so dirty. ;o)
On Jul.25.2005 at 10:30 AM