Category: Design
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Around the Corner
Charles Hanson Towne’s poem seems as pertinent in the digital world as the old one, everyone is so busy after they are 20 or 30 that indeed old friends get lost. This is adapted from the great Zen Pencils comic – I really recommend looking at Zen Pencils, I’m more into the ones based on…
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Zombies are on the Naughty List!
He’s making a list,And checking it twice,Braining zombies with candy cane,Cos they’re naughty not nice!Love this illustration by Victor Negreiro – I think there’s a whole mashup of Santa Vs Zombies needing to be put into comic form here…I’d certainly buy it. ACTION SANTA: XMAS WAR Z!
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Santa vs Obama & Join The Army
Oh Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives aka Darren Cullen where have you been all my life? Coming over as Modern Toss meets David Shrigley via Tom Tomorrow, I love the politics and humour in these, very British but also quite cutting, and very artistic at times. Love the anti-Army ones too, the new comic looks like…
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À La Mode of Production
“Seize the mode of HIS production!” Karl in the bedroom: his beard secrets revealed! Your Va-jay-jay called! It wanted to talk about anarcho-syndicalism! 293 fun, sexy ways to urge capitalism to a classless utopia… Cosmarxpolitan? Listen up Hearst – I’d buy this! Well especially if you put bearded revolutionaries like Kropotkin on the cover, hubba…
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Occupy posters
One of the things that attracted my attention to Occupy Wall Street several years ago was the photos and graphics, and glad people are still keeping that spirit going with Occupy* Posters. It was a diverse spread of opinions – not even a conveniently unified message in a conventional political sense, that’s what made it…
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Those in Advertising…kill yourself
If you wanted a set of comic strips – or just one above – that accurately described my career working as a freelance designer (who isn’t? Everybody used to want to be a DJ, now everyone’s unemployed so they’re suddenly retitled themselves as ‘freelance designers’) – well this is it, The Awesome World of Advertising.…