Category: Design
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Television through osmosis
So Pretty (but blurry) All Most of my friends have TV and once in a while, I get the “Oh did you see this?” Oddly enough, the latest find was a commercial, one that can be accessed online. Its for booze, but they are trying to infuse some hip designer spin to it, and frankly…
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Be Progressive, B-E-progressive!
Subtle, but more modern-er Breezing through the aisles of the grocery, I was looking at the cans of Chef Boyardee and I saw that Dinty Moore Beef Stew had “freshened” up. My typography teacher back in Ohio State used to get migraines walking around and seeing all the bad type treatments on signs. Some of…
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I don’t want a friggin Segway™
And I don’t want women’s tennis shoes, or a gold box, or … So there I am, doing some “research” trying to remember some tabbed navigation I saw wayback when… Amazon used to be such the paradigm of good interface. Their tabbed navigation has been ripped off more than Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” Jacket. I…
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Poster sized post-it notes rock
Sharpies smell good. This is work: We get various field agents, technical propellor-heads and sharply dressed marketing folks together in a room and spout off a bunch of ideas. I stand there at the wall and play Pictionary and write everything down, discounting nothing but inserting things like “big can of worms” from time to…
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Another one bites the dust
White Castle fries only come in one size. Another icon from my youth has been corrupted by the tweaked out stylings of whatever this design era will be named. Extruded, snappy colored, wonky shaped visual noise to clutter up the landscape. Getting on the road at 6 am to drive up to Columbus for work…
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Damn Bud Light
Why can’t advertising be good? So it’s a beautiful early summer day, I drive into the city, round the bend and see this eyesore mounted on the side of the building I act like I work in. Don’t get me wrong, I admire messages slapping me around like an unpaid pimp, but this just gets…
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Dang UPS
Gasp I’m officially ‘old school’ and curmudgeonly. Yet another identity has fallen prey to the swooshification of this new fangled design sensibility. Why is it that logos have to be shiny, or tactile, or 3-D, or have a significant arc in them? UPS had a perfectly fine logo, a product of Paul Rand, and then…