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A Project I Desperately Want
If the Expos come to DC as a reincarnation of the Senators, I want to personally do the identity package for the team. I can already envision a logotype based on a red-nosed Ted Kennedy with a martini held aloft.
The Journal Does Them By Hand
The Wall Street Journal has four full-time and two part-time artists who create the distinctive “hedcut” style portraits that appear in the paper. They are carefully drawn by hand–and the quality definitely shows. The National Portrait Gallery has even held an exhibition of these stippled drawings.
If you look to the right you’ll see a my half-assed attempt to achieve the same effect using a very interesting Photoshop filter from Andromeda software.
The Cure for ‘Auto Content’
I just read “The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint,” a wonderful new 24-page pamphlet by Edward Tufte.
Anyone who has ever attended one of Tufte’s courses is already aware of the contempt he holds for the corporate Powerpoint culture. His new pamphlet is a detailed point-by-point attack on the underlying cognitive style, which he claims “routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.”
As an alternative, Tufte advocates the use of paper handouts, which actually have a much higher information transfer rate.
His argument is very compelling and I would definitely recommend the pamphlet to anyone who would be inclined to frequently use Powerpoint. I actually sent a copy to one of my clients in the continuing education field.
Revolutionary New Logo
I felt a new design was in order so last night I kicked off the new communist beer mug logo you see to your left.
I’m still making changes to the CSS stylesheet for this site, so you may notice some general bugginess with the appearance of comments and trackback pages for the next day or so.
Cope.
Cover This
I’m glad I accidentally stumbled across this cover from last September’s issue of The Nation.
Politics aside, it’s a brilliantly executed cover. You really need to download the PDF to see all the detail (e.g. the screenprinting effect).
