The Mystery of the Colonel
My favourite logo design EVER is the 1978 redesign for Kentucky Fried Chicken by the design agency Lippincott and Margulies. Amongst many, many other iconic projects, this agency designed the classic logos for Betty Crocker & Chevron, the classic Campbell’s…
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Do Not Use Comic Sans
One of my friends recently noted that when visual artists incorporate text into their work, choosing the wrong font cheapens the overall impression. The first was a video work of majestic nature projected on an entire wall, and I was…
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Jarek Puczel
Jarek Puczel (Jarosław Puczel) is a Polish painter whose take on representational realism is to bring focus to the signs and signifiers of meaning in a scene by rendering the rest of the scene as flat expanses of colour. The overall effect…
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Sonnenzimmer
I’ve been seeing a lot of Sonnenzimmer around the interwebs, for good reason – their work is really fantastic. The Chicago-based duo, Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi, teamed up in 2006 to create (amongst other things) pleasantly minimalist posters for a…
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Gestalt in Design
Most designers know about gestalt theory as it applies to art and design. Even if you’ve never heard of the term before, the principles of this cognitive theory explain how we perceive 2-dimensional compositions, and we use them every day…
