2:01 PST. Pre-Occupy Protest Poster Art
The posters beckon us to unite against economic inequality, exploitation, and oppression.
1:01 PST. Ed Ruscha’s Passenger Seat Talk
Just shut up, New York and Europe. You’re really not all that, culture-wise.
Aaron Draplin on Portland, Palin, Pizza, and…Design
The theme of last month’s San Diego AIGA Y Conference was “Spark.” But Aaron Draplin, the first speaker, had grander ambitions.
Harvey Kurtzman: Mid-century’s Mad Man of Comic Book Art Direction
It's exceptional for a comic book figure to be called “the spiritual father of postwar American satire and the godfather of late-20th-century alternative humor.” But that's exactly what Steven Heller stated in his recent review of the book The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics.