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Packaging: Design Overkill?
Now that anyone can basically steal any bit of music they want, how does the record industry make up for falling sales. Among other things, the answer is to make outlandish, super deluxe versions. You...
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Design: The Best Cover in Years – David Bowie’s ‘The Next Day’
David Bowie turned 66 on January 8th and released his first LP in 10 years on March 13th – a cause for celebration. One of the things that make it so special is the cover – a simple rework of his 1977...
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Photographers: George Brassai
George Brassaï (nee Gyula Halász) (9 September 1899 — 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian (Transylvanian) photographer sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the early 20th...
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Painters: Kirk Damarais
Kirk Damarais is an artist, graphic designers, and apparently all around good egg working out of LA. Even his web site doesn’t say much about him other than he loves to create and likes to have fun...
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Happy St. Pats – From Ireland’s Favorite Son
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan Shane & the Missus – Victoria
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Design: National Safety Council Posters
The National Safety Council was founded in 1913 and still exists today. The organization is dedicated to promoting health and safety in the US of A. Throughout the years they’ve created these beautiful...
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Painters: Guy Peellaert’s Rock Dreams
Guy Peellaert – (6 April 1934 – 17 November 2008) Guy was a Belgian artist, painter, illustrator, comic artist and photographer, most famous for the book Rock Dreams and for his album covers for David...
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Film: The Birds – 50 Years On
Alfred Hitchcock’s next film after Psycho, The Birds (1963) was very loosely based on a short story by British author Daphne Du Maurier and also a strange occurrence in Monterray CA in 1961 where...
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Painters: Frank R. Paul (not the monkey guy)
Frank Rudolph Paul (April 18, 1884 – June 29, 1963) Frank R. Paul was influential in defining what both cover art and interior illustrations in the nascent science fiction pulps of the 1920s looked...
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Easter Sunday March 31 – Happy 70th Birthday Christopher Walken
Ronald Walken (born March 31, 1943) aka Christopher Walken. Happy Birthday to one cool son of a bitch.
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Photography: Bowie’s ‘Station to Station’ tour
The Station to Station Tour began in Feb. 1976 in support of the album of the same name, and lasted until May of the same year. Bowie had been living on ‘cocaine, peppers and milk’ for the making of...
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Staglieno Cemetery – Genoa Italy
The Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno is an extensive cemetery located on a hillside in the district of Staglieno of Genoa, Italy, famous for its monumental tombs. Covering an area of more than a...
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Women & Motorcycles
Not a lot to say really – these are pictures of women on motorcycles. Always a bit of a male dominated activity, there were always those few brave woman who just wouldn’t sit still – and thank the lord...
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Design: Controversial Magazine Covers – through the years
The following major magazine covers were deemed extremely controversial for their time. Some now just seem silly, Ellen Degeneres’ coming out on the cover of Time, some extremely WTF – Time Magazines’...
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Design Overkill Part 2 – Blu-Ray & DVD
As it’s so easy to download your favorite movie for free (and illegally) on the internet, designers of DVDs and Blu-Ray packaging are going way, way out of their way to sweeten the deal with extras,...
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Design: Good Logos, Very Very Bad Logos
When it comes to logo design, there’s purely great, occasionally clever and more often then not absolutely horrendous. A talented designer can work a reference into a logo that suggests what the...
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Illustration: Robert McGinnis
Robert McGinnis (born 1926) – Robert McGinnis is an American illustrator and painter who has designed over 1200 covers for a variety of paperback novels. He has designed over 40 movie posters such as...
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His Name Was Liberace
Wladziu (or Vładziu) Valentino Liberace – (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) I remember thinking the first time I saw the Austin Powers movie, that the funniest line was when Mike Myers character wakes...
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Happy 67th Birthday John Waters
John Samuel Waters, Jr. (born April 22, 1946) Not the greatest director alive, granted, he sure has made a mark on the face of cinema though. The first time I saw Pink Flamingos, I remember thinking...
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The Chimeras and Gargoyles of Notre Dame
Notre Dame de Paris (French for “Our Lady of Paris“) Notre Dame began construction in 1163 and continued in different stages until about 1345 – just shy of 200 years. The gargoyles that act as drain...
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