A Viking Keith Haring?
I saw a Viking gravestone from one thousand years ago that looks like it was made by Keith Haring.
The Hand-painted Neighborhood
San Francisco’s Mission District has the strongest visual character of any neighborhood I’ve ever visited. Here’s a photo gallery of my visit there.
Bolinas Surf Graffiti
Below are three photos of surf/movie graffiti that I took last week in Bolinas, California, followed by a photo of some Bolinas surfers. Can you name all three actors and films? The first two are easy… I was hoping to surf while I was in Bolinas but the water temperature was too frigid to enter [...]
Lighthouse Zine Project
I recently completed a zine-making project with the art class I teach for visually impaired teenagers at the Lighthouse International. A zine is a DIY homemade magazine. Our zines consist of drawings, writing, photocopied collage, Braille, and lots of John Mayer jokes.
True Beauty.
David Pearson designed a series of fiercely beautiful book covers for Cormac McCarthy novels. I’m a huge McCarthy fan, having recently worked my way through the vast majority of his work. These covers use inventive, lovingly crafted typography to express a violence and beauty that the novels contain. They are the best typographic work I’ve [...]
I Fell in Love with a Ghoul
I haven’t been this crazy about a band since I was a Cobain-obsessed teenager. During the last month, my casual interest in early-80′s punk band The Misfits has mutated into a devilish craving. I’m a fiend. At first, I had written The Misfits off as just another low-fi thrashing experience, but then a series of [...]
New Smashing Article
I have written a new article titled Art Manifestos and Their Applications in Contemporary Design which has been published by my friends at Smashing Magazine. Please take a look and leave a comment! Thanks.
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