Holy crap welcome back to Graphic Design 1. Today’s assignment: How You’re Never Going to be Able to Design a Nice Book Cover. Designer Elsa Chiao scoffed at this assignment, and indeed threw it to the ground, smiting it as she did so. For Elsa Chiao excels at just that, the covers of books. She is so good, SO good, that this post is basically a shot-for-shot re-creation of her portfolio. You must see these books!
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Let me tell you about pizza in Minneapolis. We get our pizza in these spaceships. That’s all you need to know, right? Well heck then, look at all these pictures of them! If you need more, like need more information, I suggest you take a peek at the search results of Galactic Pizza in our extensive archives. If you just wanna see their delivery vehicle as photographed by yours truly, again, peek through the gallery below!
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Crayon art. These are the works of Diem Chau. These are sculptures of real people, cut into crayons. Not just any coloring sticks, but Crayola crayons. Anyone that’s experienced grade school in the USA (and the rest of the world?) knows that if you’re not using Crayola crayons, you’re a total loser! But some families can’t afford those nice sticks. Or couldn’t. That is, until Crayola got smart and started selling packs of 24 at Target for a dollar. Now they’re the biggest crayon brand in the world, bar none.
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A hundred and eighty, that’s 180, animal logos are being ENSLAVED! What’s going on right here is designer Karl Grandin is SETTING THEM FREE! Hooray! Into a sweater. Freed right into a sweater. The fabric in the sweater’s made using computerized knitting technology at the Nederlands Textielmuseum in Tilburg, then cut and sewn by seamstress Dima Stefanova. As of now, they’re a limited edition and not set for production. Sad!
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You always wanted to see Doctor House doing a little dance for Vicodin, right? How about seeing an ad for the 1970 mint Mach 5 motorcar from Speed Racer? Here it is. The international smartman Chef Guevara? Check. Of course, what collection of oddities would be complete without a comic-strip-style poster of Batman and Superman enjoying a quick yet sensual kiss? All this and more in the new collection of images by design funnyman…

Scuzzo!
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From the PITS of punk rock HELL comes this devilish tea brand, designed by the nightmare Matthew Alexander Manos! Experience that which cannot be contained by any governmental law. The irony runs deep in this evil taste, black font branded tea. So not nice, it’s made completely of deteriorating materials. Not for the pack rats!
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This post is a collection of hundreds of Star Wars photos from the set, of the movies, and from the promotional shots of the 70’s and 80’s. Doesn’t matter how you feel about Star Wars, it’s affected the way you work. The world you live in today is the world you live in today because of Star Wars. You’d better believe that. Its basically like this: Luke Skywalker: New York, Princess Leia: Los Angeles, Han Solo and Darth Vader: Minneapolis.
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Here’s how you carve out your little piece of the money. You find your nitch FIRST. Then you think about what they do. Crazies. Hippies. Weirdos. They need to feed their cats. Then need to make their cats into crazy cats. So what should you do? You should make a catnip brand called Cosmic Catnip. And put a crazy cat on the bag. Crazy cat!
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Mail, mail, slow, wonderful mail. Every once in a while you’ve got to utilize our socialized mailbox and delivery person system. And when that happens, you’ve got to go crazy! It’s important to bring the heat with heck-a creative energy. The one you see before you’s made by architect Nick Doermann and it’s got amazing folds and letters and symbols.
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I am not even kidding you. That is the name of the solo show happening right now by artist / designer / wildman WK Interact. His name might be just “WK” now cause that’s what it says on the ads, but still, “How to Blow Yourself Up!” That’s what’s up. In this post is a basic rundown of everything that’s in the show. I recommend definitely GOING to the show though also because everything is so sculptural and needs to be seen IRL.*
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For some of you, this is your second time hearing about the confederate flag Obama situation. For the rest of you, hello there! Get ready for a strange journey! Right here we’ve got one real-as-can-be, genuine as the day is long Obama stars n’ bars flag. For most of you, the instant reaction is going to be of disgust: the flag of the confederate states of america has and will always mean slavery and racism. But for the rest, you’re looking at another thing: why is Shepard Fairey’s HOPE image sitting next to that symbol. This can’t be real!

Oh it’s real, mama, it’s really real.
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