Bobo the Clown Doll
Bobo the Clown Doll In 1961, Stanford psychology professor, Albert Bandura conducted an experiment where small children observed adults punching, kicking, and assaulting a blow-up doll named Bobo. The experiment proved that children learned aggressive behavior from this exposure. I had taken this sinister-feeling photograph at a toy museum some time earlier and felt it […]
Jekyll and Hyde
Jekyll & Hyde I know, it’s a little cutesie and a little cheeky. I try to never do anything that falls into this category…BUT for some reason I wanted to play with Mr. Potato Head. And playing with Mr. Potato Head, by its very nature, is already a little cutesie and cheeky, so why not […]
Space Case
Space Case At the time of this design, our daughter was 8. I’m not sure about your 8-year-old, but ours had very selective hearing, and remembering, and reasoning—often conveniently spacey. So when playing with mirrored photography on an iPad we made this base image. The alien, almost futuristically religious visual felt like something out of […]
The Quick Brown Fox
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog This pangram is a famous sentence used by designer’s and typographer’s to display every letter of the alphabet so they can see how the font they have chosen stylistically looks. So…letterforms, letterforms, letterform. Obnoxiously–I mean, exaggeratingly–so, because we’ve already established this is all about fonts.
Hive Mind
Hive Mind Bold, graphic, and contemporarily logo-like, this looks like it could be the identity for some mathematically technological start-up company spearheading a new form of artificial intelligence. Precisely.
Id, Ego, Superego
Id, Ego, Superego Personifying the 3 psychological aspects of an individual (Id: hedonistic self-serving seeker of pleasure. Superego: straight laced upstanding doer of good. Ego: mediator between the two) with found-object assemblage allowed for a sense of personality which, afterall, is kinda what this illustration is all about.
10 Pounds of Shit
10 Pounds of Shit in a 5 Pound Bag Information design is usually very serious. This saying is not. This saying does, however, lend itself well to being visualized in the manner of information design. Part of its charm lies in the irony of rendering such slang content in such a corporate way.
Lipstick on a Pig
Lipstick on a Pig Sure, it’s a bit irreverant. And probably not something I want to explain to my 9-year-old daughter. But it’s doing what it means. The act of putting lipstick on a pig, by it’s very nature, means to fancify something unpleasant. And that something here is lipstick on the unexpected end of […]
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine Haunting imagery that is painted with semi-transparent layers of light that emerge from the darkness. Abstract—with just a hint of human characteristics—so as to feel like something you think you remember from a dream. Or something you swear you saw out of the corner of your eye as a child. It […]
Sacred Cow
Sacred Cow So many fun ways to depict a Sacred Cow. On a more pretentious note: “divergent design thinking”, and all that.
