What if there were no stop signs…
…and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?
Entries from October 2008
The Stop Sign Design Video
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Rolling Stones Original Logo Art Sells for $92,500
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s the logo that spawned a million t-shirts and just about as many bad tattoos. The original artwork of the “Tongue and Lips” logo, designed by John Pasche in 1970, was sold recently at auction for the sum of £50,000 ($92,500). The buyer was London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the world’s greatest museum of art [...]
Tags: Design · Illustration
Deadheads for a Change
October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I couldn’t resist how nicely the Obama logo fits inside the Grateful Dead’s iconic “Steal Your face” Logo. I traced the Dead logo in Illustrator, then dropped an Obama logo in the center (plenty of vector art of the logo out there). I then adjusted the color palette to the Obama colors. Done!
Tags: Design · Illustration · Politics
The McCain Logos: Separated at Birth?
October 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Logo for McCain Foods, a Canadian food company (and also the makers of Ellios Pizza) above, John McCain’s Presidential campaign logo, below. The McCain foods logo existed long before ole’ Johnny’s logo.
Do you think John McCain’s designers did any research prior to executing this design? Even just a subtle color change would have helped. I [...]

