Literal Band Logos, May Releases

By Laura Medina at 1:23 PM on May 8, 2013

We've created six literal band logos of releases we're excited about this month.   read more

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Infographic: Hunter S. Thompson's Kentucky Derby

By Laura Medina at 12:21 PM on May 3, 2013

In Hunter S. Thompson's 1970 article, "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved," Thompson described the people and events surrounding the Kentucky Derby in a frenzied first-person account unlike traditional news reports.  read more

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"Draw Homer" Tumblr Encourages Fresh Takes on Homer Simpson Illustrations

By Laura Medina at 1:45 PM on April 25, 2013

Draw Homer asks illustrators from all over the world to contribute their own interpretation of the classic Simpsons character.  read more

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Awesome of the Day: Frank Chimero's The States Project

By Ani Vrabel at 5:00 PM on June 18, 2010

When I look at a map of the United States, I get traumatizing flashbacks to elementary-school map quizzes, when I always mixed up and mislabeled all the states starting with “M.” When 25-year-old graphic designer and illustrator Frank Chimero looks at a map of the United States, he sees cassette tapes, quills and ice cream cones. In a project called The States, Chimero illustrates common objects with the silhouettes of U.S. states as his guide. So far, he has 17 down and 33 to go. Below are images of Texas as a shirt on a clothesline and Hawaii as meteors....  read more

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Charley Harper comes to Old Navy

By Rachael Maddux at 4:35 PM on December 19, 2008

One of my favorite illustrators and one of my, uh, favorite mall stories have joined forces to create some of the cutest gifts I wish I had tiny children in my life to give to. Old Navy now carries a line of baby t-shirts and games bearing the beautiful, mid-century naturalist works of Charley Harper.  ...  read more

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