the pepto bismol website is pretty funky, i had no idea! in other news, i am thinking of deleting this blog, i already started going on a deleting spree because i just don’t like reading my older blogs, it’s embarrassing to actually read about myself…anyways i think i finally got it out of my system and to my surprise i lasted a year with it. but then knowing me as soon i get rid of it i will probably have the urge to blog; but for now i think am done with following web trends (syke).

edit: so i guess this is from a book, and i might have to buy it. damn it, i really wish i had more room for all these books that i want. and i have to add this link: a tribute to herbert lubalin

Worth renting on Netflix if you like this kind of stuff. When I had to lay out and quickly crank out newspaper ads many years ago, you best believe Helvetica was one of my top font choices - it’s bold, legible and it just looks clean. My other top fonts were Avant Garde Gothic, Adobe Garamond, Eurostile and Futura. I could probably keep on going with this font nerd shit; I have a shitload of fonts, but I keep going back to the same, familiar typefaces. I even had my fonts memorized at one point! But, I digress. Anyway, even if you aren’t a graphic designer, you can probably sit through this documentary.

stolen from Swank’s blog

I actually had fun doing comps for these titles. I hope I get to see my Blu-ray menus one of these days…that would be cool. Too bad I don’t get any freebies of anything I’ve worked on; nor does my name get credited. I’m pretty much a ghost artist. Weak.

matches perfectly with my blog too.

and it came up with this.

and this is what it came up with. You’d be surprised at how good and interesting the illustrations and fonts are for the subject matter.

These are great; the loud colors, big bold letters and graphics remind me of graffiti letters. If I had more time I could probably keep on going with these since there are so many and they are all distinctly unique.

“Established by German immigrant Curt Teich, the Chicago-based Curt Teich & Co. operated from 1898 until 1978. The company’s agents crossed the country, selling postcards and taking photographs to make new ones. Between the First and Second World Wars, Teich’s Irving Park Road plant on Chicago’s North Side sometimes printed several million postcards a day. Throughout its existence, the company maintained an archive of all of its postcards and its photographs.” (source: Encyclopedia of Chicago)

Here are just a few: