Category Archives: Design

Damn me, because this book cover makes me chuckle.

[click on the image] Is there something wrong with me? Now before you send in your essays comments, let me just point out how we got here. I live near a Barnes & Noble, and go on fairly long walks with my dog Harry. Our county and town have ‘blue laws’ where most stores are…

A well-balanced information diet includes print

I get emails [forwarded to me] all the time from my dad about the “good old days” and “old-fashioned values,” about the price of bread in the 50′s and how one wouldn’t dare be anything but fully compliant with authority figures, from pointer-wielding schoolmarm to uniformed milkman. And with no television to hypnotize us (let…

Wouldn’t you wuv to Wovel with me?

What in the world would one Wovel? Why, snow of course. Background: last night I had a self-promotion idea for my graphic design consultancy business: a tongue-in-cheek , snow shoveling-themed postcard. (We just received a few inches of sleet and snow here in north Jersey, USA.) I imagined the mailer employing some kind of infographical…