Hooray! Minneapolis hero gigantic mural painter Isaac Arvold has a new project on his hands here, and he hands it right over to World Famous Design Junkies to put on blast! And so here it is, a relatively mega painting on canvas, 12 feet by 12 feet square, painted, drawn, then painted by Arvold, assisted in part by Paper Tiger*. The painting in question here features Hennepin Bridge & Grainbelt Beer sign from the north side of Minneapolis. They’ve sort of been overgrown by some vine-ridden growth and doughnuts. That’s what Minneapolis really is, so it’s very appropriate to show the truth here I think. To tune up the interactivity of this project, Arvold took a huge long video of the entire process, 10 days mashed into a little over 4 minutes of video.
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How hop to get! My friend. My esteemed colleague and partner in interwobbling, Design Professor Erik Brandt, is having so many well-deserved honors in these new days! Today I am happy to pass on the word of his invitation to speak and workshop at an old school and blossoming location of his, Virginia Commonwealth University. Please learn more below, and if you are in the area, it would be a fantastic opportunity for you to go see him speak words to the world. Ask him questions about broken plugins on wordpress.
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So here’s a thing. In this post is a few pictures dealing with Design Walk in at Bios in Athens, Greece. Designed and executed by Nassos Kappa, the most striking element in the presentation of this project is the picture you see above. Circle posters! How devastatingly powerful they look. How wonderful they’d be to apply to the walls! And what wonders could be created with the tool that cut these pieces of papers into circles.
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Yes! That’s what your whole body will be saying if you tune yourself in to the rockabilly culture of Japanese greaser culture. Photographer Alessandro Zuek Simonetti was cool enough to take the time to capture one of the events that keeps this culture lit: ABC Rebel Night! That stands for “Always Be Cool” and it takes place monthly in Brooklyn!
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Hoootah! Our hero and friend super-designer Erik Brandt is in Bolivia! And you know what that means – lots of typographically amazing photos! Typography is a specialty of the eyes for Herr Brandt, and his camera helps him help us to understand the lovliness of his environment. Explore with me, and him, if you will, a collection of 120+ photographs of graphic design and lettering lovliness from the city of La Paz, Bolivia!
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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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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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Hello all you ninjas in training. I want to tell you of my support for all of your hard work and my congratulations on choosing such a lofty goal. This is my sister and I in one of our earlier sparring sessions when we were just beginning with orange and green ninja belts. It’s some time in the early 90’s, probably 1991, Halloween. Check the colors! The combos!
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Here’s a DIY project of ease and excellence if ever have I seen one. Designer Fabio Parizzi had the idea to print using nothing but sunlight. How would one do this? One would have to use something that acts as a stencil, the sun to shine through the stencil, and a surface that would agree to fade on command. What Fabio Parizzi has done is make a poster using this concept saying “Every Thing Appears Out of ****- ***”.

The blank spots representing the word “nothing.”
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I’ll tell you what. It’s hard to make a really good poster. It’s easy to make a really good basic poster. If you want to make a garage sale sign, you need to write on there GARAGE SALE TODAY and an arrow. That’s the best thing to do for a garage sale. If you’re going to make a poster and you’re going to cut and paste some vintage graphics, you’re going to screw up. Unless you’re this guy. This guy right here, the one in this post, he’s really really good at this. And he’s got the typography right. So very right.
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