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…my bands’ album cover will elegantly combine typography and imagery.  The end.

The xx is a new band out of England who have absolutely exploded onto “the scene” this year.  Their album, xx, has reached the top ten of numerous important-music-people’s “Best Albums of ‘09″ lists.  As awesome as their music is (listen to the track below) I’d rather talk about the band’s branding.
How amazing is that [...]

The most recent storyline of “The Invincible Iron Man” has been exciting, dramatic and, overall, very entertaining. The past few issues in the “Stark Disassembled” series really caught my attention with their fantastically designed covers by Salvador Larroca and Rian Hughes.
To put it simply, most comic book covers are garbage. The presence of [...]

Here is a video of Senator Al Franken drawing a map of the United States, freehand.  It’s pretty incredible.  Thanks to Core77.

I know it’s been a while since my last post but I have been pretty busy recently.  Well now that I have a steady source of income, I can actually buy things for myself, like these awesome Futurama vinyl figures! They were released a few weeks ago and I’m a huge Futurama fan so I [...]

A few days ago I saw Pixar’s “Up” in theaters and I highly recommend that anyone who hasn’t seen it yet drop what they are doing and go RIGHT NOW!  It’s another home run from Pixar who (with the exception of a certain automobile-centered film) cannot seem to make a bad movie.
However, there was one [...]

I have been anticipating the Wolverine movie for THREE YEARS.  While filming, there had been dozens of rumors about issues between Fox Studios and director Gavin Hood.  While reading about them I simply (maybe ignorantly) kept the faith that the right people behind the scenes would make sure that one of Marvel’s most popular characters [...]

This is an incredibly cool animated video by M. Ward featuring backup vocals by Zooey Deschannel.  I got the She & Him (they’re band) album “Volume One” a couple weeks ago and I really love it.  They sound a lot like Jenny Lewis with a very smooth, vintage, blues/country sound.

Props to Ben and Drew for making this kick-ass poster for our IDSA Merritt Award presentations tomorrow.  I just finished making my presentation and I have to start practicing it to make sure I’m under the 10 minute limit.
The event is open to the public, so please stop by for some industrial design “MAYHEM.”  Personally, [...]