Do 'nice' guys and their logos finnish last in the NFL?

An interesting article on Sports Illustrated about teams ditching their nice looking logos and making them meaner and more intimidating has translated into success with relatively quick results. So i guess this means maybe the Raiders are in for an update?

#44

There hasn't been much coverage today in the media or on the internet, but in case  you may have missed it, i feel obligated to inform you that as of 12:00pm, America has a new President...#44 to be exact. Its this guy name Barack Obama. Here's his picture from the New Yorker Magazine by illustrator Drew Friedman.

Remembering Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists whose precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of national culture and sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art, died Friday at his home in Chadds Ford, Pa. He was 91. Read the rest of the NYT article here.


I remember my first discovery of Wyeth. As a kid my dad surrounded me with books putting many classics on my bedroom shelves. Robin Hood, King Arthur, all illustrated by NC Wyeth...the elder of the Wyeth art dynasty. In high school when I first got into art I would often go downtown to the National Gallery of Art looking and learning, and scavenging through the museum store for clearance books. And thats where I first discovered Andrew Wyeth. A book called "The Helga Pictures" full of amazing pencil drawings, watercolors and tempera's of his muse, a nieghbor farm girl named Helga. The dedication of his painting was amazing. His craftsmanship and painting techniques, turning tempra into life like images was on a different level than anything i'd seen from an artist living in the same century as me.

Like many others once i discovered Picasso and modernism I moved on from the idealistic realism of Andrew Wyeth. The one artist who truely ignored modernism, he stayed true to himself and made the work that he wanted to make. A great lesson for any artist, designer or creative.

Human Rights Poster project written up in PRINT Magazine

At left: Poster by Christopher Kosek At Right: Poster by Cindy Chen

Over the summer term at Art Center I had the privelage of working in a special class dedicated to making poster celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 25 posters that my class made traveled to Paris, France and were displayed at the NGO conference there and locally at the Pasadena Central Library.

PRINT Magazine did a write up of our project and i'm prominently featured in the article as well as having one of my posters shown in an article that is currently on the front page of the site.

From the article in PRINT written by Paul Morris: Posters That Redeclare Human Rights

Christopher Kosek, whose mother grew up in Communist Poland in fear of the Secret Police, created several of the exhibition’s posters. Kosek said graphic design needs to be a vehicle of public service to increase awareness for issues such as the military use of children. One of his posters, entitled "A Child Is Not a Soldier," depicts a child soldier as drawn by a child's hand. Kosek said that children draw whatever surrounds them, perhaps unaware of their own traumas. Two of Kosek's posters, "Somebody" and "Everybody," feature medical illustrations and neutral typefaces. The message is that “we’re all made up of the same stuff,” going back to that self-evident Article 1 of the Declaration. Kosek’s use of warm colors (yellow, pink, red) nevertheless stirs up a message of hope and progress.

Its a pretty big thrill to see my work written about in a prominant graphic design magazine and i'm even more excited to see our project and the cause of human rights getting some exposure.

I wish i took this picture...

...But i just found it on the internet. Says a million things about our country right now. Discuss amongst yourselves. no picture credit or source available.