Folded Paper AK-47

The worlds most infamous assault weapon, the AK-47 has been reborn once again as a paper craft project. Eye Magazine has a story about this bizarre yet strangely interesting paper kit that allows you to build a life size paper replica of the greatest instrument of death the civilized world has ever produced. Its only a matter of time before someone goes outside with one of these things and gets in serious trouble with local law enforcement.

I guess other people made Obama art....

Time Magazine is running a rather refreshing slide show  of Barack Obama themed art that they found on Flickr. I say its refreshing in that it doesn't mention the words "Shepard" or "Fairey" once, nor does it show THAT POSTER.

(spoiler alert: ok ok it kinda sorta does but its in a photograph so its ok) 

Don't get me wrong, I love the Fairey/Obey Obama poster. Its iconic and one of the best political posters ever, but i'm really just sick and tired of seeing the thing every time Obama's 

name is mentioned. I think its been over used to the point where its now about the artist more than the subject but hey thats just like my opinion. People might get shocked to see a photograph of the President Elect...they might discover he's a human being and not a Vector Man!

NY Times Buzzwords of 2008

The New York Times once again comes out with its Buzzwords of 2008. 

Of course, many of them are related to the election. Each one of the words is accompanied by an illustration by Jessica Hische in that all too "right now" style of bubble block lettering that i've come to see on just about everything in the past few months. 

New Red Sox Logos

Its been out for a week or two now, but the greatest Baseball team in the world, The Boston Red Sox have unveiled some new uniform logo updates. This team has been around for over 100 years and the uniforms, branding and logos have barely changed at all during that time period. You have to take a bit of a deep breath when they announce any sort of "change"


They basically are using the "hanging sox" which appear on a lot of unofficial off-field fan targeted merch. Is it necessary or just an attempt to generate more income? I mean if every superfan in the Red Sox nation buys a brand new fitted New Era hat or alt official team jersey with the new alt logo that equals lots and lots of extra cash...

They will be wearing this sox logo on special alt uniforms this season instead of the tried and true "B". You can read more about the changes on Brand New.

Best & Worst Logos of 2008

Via DesignObserver and Brand New the Best and Worst Logos of 2oo8

The Best two snippets:

"The Oklahoma City Thunder / You can take the Supersonics out of Seattle but you can't take the lame out of this logo."

"Animal Planet / This logo is neither animal nor planet. Discuss."