Not all designers are perfect. Some try to make a cigar back into something else, if you know what I mean. Here’s a hilarious story about one such case of a woman needing help with a “lost cat” poster, and the designer who “tried” to “help” her. In regards to the poster above:

David,
yeah thats not what I was looking for at all. it looks like a movie and how come the photo of Missy is so small?
Shannon

Dear Shannon,
It’s a design thing. The cat is lost in the negative space.
Regards, David.

It gets better from there. Thanks to Systemic (and friend) Lisa for sending this my way. READ THE WHOLE THING »

When one person sends me something, I strongly consider posting it. When 5 people do, I give in already. Thanks to all of you Systemics who sent it my way, it is a good read.

Written from the perspective of one of the most reviled typefaces, McSweeny has put together a manifesto of sorts from Comic Sans.

Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

Very much worth a read. LINK »

The best way to descripe this site is SomeECards meets graphic design. A great fun microsite from the people at Aquent. Oh, and the web address is http://www.iameffed.com/. LINK »

This made my day yesterday.

Ever try to go to a restaurant’s website, only to discover that most restaurants are not yet in the same era that the rest of us are? Flash intros, bad music, etc? Such is the dialogue between Dan Wineman and a website every month or so, from Dan’s awesome website:

Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
Website: Nope.
Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
Website: I’m ignoring you.
Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever occur to you?
Website: Fuck entirely off.
Me: (gives up, switches to computer)

That’s just the beginning. It gets better from there. Go check it out. LINK.

This is the best blog since my blog (and Kottke.org that I find so much cool stuff on it’s insane).  It is, as it states, “A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.” That is exactly what you will find.  One of my favorites:

That looks good, but can you add a blog too? We’ve already used our budget on the rest of the site so how does $50 sound for adding the blog?

Oh, you poor souls.  Anyway, they are pretty hilarious and to those designers out there, make you realize you aren’t alone. LINK.

Btw, if you like those, check out the “clients” tag here at Rosscott, Inc. Chances are you’ll find things up your alley.

Carter and Paul over at Crooked Gremlins posted this chart, claiming they are both on opposite sides of the spectrum.  I’m ashamed to say where I am on it.  Where are you?

Btw the creator of this chart is a comic artist / illustrator / assumedly graphic designer and I spent too long looking through the archive.  It’s now in not only the comics I read, but the 1st set right after lunch.  High praise indeed.  His site here.

PS If in some way Caldwell Tanner comes across this and is in any way inclined to send me a Falcon Lunch shirt, that would be great thanks.

McSweeny’s (via Kottke) has a hilarious article about prepping for fall and decorating with AWESOMENESS.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some f_cking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker f_cker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO!

The rest is equally hilarious.  LINK.

It’s like a pre-planned photobomb.  These are the pictures taken in preparation for photo shoots, with non-camera-ready photo assistants standing in for models and the like.  Some hilarious and very interestingly artful stuff in there.  Which one is your fav?  Link.

Thanks to Marty’s Blast-O-Rama for posting this gem.  Dr. Doom does stand up.  Link.