Archive for June, 2007

Splasher caught at Obey show?

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

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News on the street is the “Splasher” may have been caught trying to sabatoge Sheperd Fairey’s opening in DUMBO. The Gothamist has the info here and here.

Found around the Interwebernet Tubes

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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Image by Ethos via Wooster Collective

Hecklewood T-Shirts: Influenced by cultural events in the 1990’s, one part punk-in-gutter, and one part toxic wasteland, all parts hip gear to cover your torso.

TBWA Haduhodo: Why flash sucks Loading…loading…loading…wow this is way cool…what do I click on…Oh this is cool…loading…er, how do I get back…WTF do I click on…loading…Geez that was 5 minutes I’ll never get back. Ok the design is way cool but I feel this could have been accomplished in an actual “usable” way while keeping the impact.

Advertising Icon Museum: Set to open in Kansas City in the Spring of 2008.

Futility of Space Exploration: We can’t even figure out how to live in the Gobi desert or the ocean’s floor, much less space.

Red Bull BS One: I am a sucker for watching breakdancing b-boy allstars. I can do the worm, I wonder if that counts?

Hand Job: ….Er, it’s a catalog of hand drawn typograhpy.

Justice: Pogo-dance daft punkish french electonica-ish blippy music thing er majobber.

The Yes Men Stike Again: Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at GO-EXPO, Canada’s largest oil conference.

Conscious Alliance: Using the power of the poster to help feed hungry people. “It’s looking like the non-profit may just be one of the most positive things to have happened in the music industry since N’Sync quit recording”.

More on Design for the other 90%: Design for the Other 90%, on view at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum through September 23, 2007. Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted.