Super Bowl Forty...something

It's that time again.  Super bowl time. Also known as the Thanksgiving of junk food.  Every year millions of people gather round their TV sets to watch the result of large groups of people working together toward a single goal: to create the best logo in Super Bowl history.  It's got all your elements that any good Super Bowl logo needs: Towering appearance, clear football imagery, Stars. I happen to enjoy the lack of beveled edges.  Still there's always room for improvement,  although this is pretty good compared to many of the past logos. Maybe there's something longer than roman numerals. How about Binary? Enjoy Super Bowl 0011010000110011 on Sunday everyone!

Also, if you think you could do better then go ahead and enter the NY Times contest thingy and prove it. Courtesy of the NY Times NFL blog, The Fifth Down.

It's Like Flickr, but Design-ier

Let me introduce you to flickrdesign.  It's basically the same flickr you know and love,  except with more graphic design and without all the free will.  That junk only slowed you down anyway, right? Flickrdesign is more or less a blog featuring graphic design images from the regular flickr site except without any insightful or hilarious commentary . These featured pieces are selected by someone known only as "The Editor" and vary in style and overall quality.  You cannot post images directly  to this site, as you can on flickr, but you can e-mail the mysterious man behind the curtain and he will pass his benevolent judgement upon your art.  Despite it's deceiving use of the word "flickr" flickrdesign is not, in fact, affiliated with flickr.com.  There are some cool things over there so take a few minutes to peruse the site and then come back here and leave us some links in the comments of your favorites. 

(Example image is Apples Oranges by flickr.com user jordanmichaelgray.)

EDIT: Further research has revealed that the mysterious editor is  Cornell Campbell, a designer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Credit goes to you, Cornell.

Printing: Better Than the Internet Since 1947

  "Large plants employ persons, usually women, who do nothing but proofread."

Eh, ladies? You looking for that hot new job to get you through the recession? This video ( found by way of Quipsologies, which you should all check out) is ten minutes of solid retro gold. It's only ten minutes out of your life to watch it and learn from it. It's just a shame that this wonderful medium is being watered down because of the impersonal, distant, free internet. Curse you Internet! Cuuuuurse yooooou

Now, commenters, let's discuss down below what we've learned about sexism....I mean printing. 

Inspirational or Crotchety?

In 1992 Paul Rand was pissed.  He wrote this article as a response to "trendy" design, which he viewed as a watered down version of actual ideas.  This article has some nice points about the actual purpose of graphic design if you can filter through all of the name dropping and professor-style language.  
This is really more of a rant than it is an inspirational piece, but there are still lessons to be learned.Here are some quick thoughts that I absorbed from this:

• Everything truly original contains allusions to past work but expands on the ideas of those works.  You can't create innovation out of nothing.
• Schools teaching social reform and morality rather than vocational skills do not prepare the students to actually execute social change.
• “Most [managers] see the designer as a set of hands -- a supplier -- not as a strategic part of a business.”
• The designer’s job is to compile and distill complex ideas and communicate them simply and effectively.  Not just to make cool stuff. Although that's also true.

Go ahead and take a few minutes and read it over. It'll be good for you. Clearly, all you sellouts care about is style over substance. Come up with an original idea already! Sheesh!