This year marks the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International. It also marks the 50th anniversary of beautiful and evocative poster art created for the organization. Check out some of the best of these with a slideshow at Guardian UK: http://tinyurl.com/3j8kasa Read More

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800" caption="Intermezzo by Frank Vandersalm"][/caption] I stumbled across the website for Frank Vandersalm last night, just before bed. I ended up staying up to scroll through every image in the gallery before I could tear myself away. These ...Read More

We should append to the list of "trends to watch to create greater marketing success" our own list crafted to create success. I developed this list almost 30 years ago when I was still a kid. I may've changed them ...Read More

I have fallen down on the job of maintaining this blog. If not for my faceless readership—assuming they exist—then for myself. I extend my busy summer schedule as a feeble, hackneyed excuse. I'll try to do better. Read More

I had Jay for freshman art appreciation way back in the day. I consider him something of a mentor, though I've been in the Pacific Northwest now for so long, and have been out of touch with most of my ...Read More

From the WTF file, here's the Governor of the State of California hawking soft drinks. Read More

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Like vintage travel posters, there's a certain romance to fruit crate art. I don't know if it's just me: I grew up in a place where there used to be nothing but fruit trees, and now there's nothing but tract ...Read More

Look, I don't want to get off—as Dennis Miller would say—on a rant here.  Let me just say that I am damn lucky to be one of the select relative few to have been born in the United States of ...Read More

I get as much a charge from new designs in architecture as from print and web. That's why spaceinvading.com has become a regular stop for me. The site is all about the photography of the designed spaces, sculptures, installations ...Read More