BK puts foot in mouth?

Maybe being egged on by Hardee's sexually charges burger ads, Burger King decided to stoop to their level. What happened to the good old days, when those old ladies asked, "Where's the beef?". Just wanted to share, here is an article from FoxNews.com.

Food For Thought...

With all these products out there, sometimes packaging and its design can make a difference, or at least designers can come together to inform the public. There needs to be a design community that creates propaganda against the product manufacturers who put profit over consumer safety and health.



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Hungry For Change

Periodic Table of Typefaces

Just good typeface fun for the whole family. Sorry, I have not found the original source for this. When I find it, I'll post it. Thanks Phillip B. for sending the image.

The Crisis of Credit (Visualized)

This illustrative video by Jonathan Jarvis is genius. If a picture is worth a thousand words then this little video is worth it's weight in Encyclopedia Britannica. The graphics and simple language make the credit crisis much easier to understand. I'm sure it's not this simple but either way, right or wrong, this is a great example of design used to communicate.

Fonts have feelings too!

Love it! I give it two open mailboxes!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Social Commentary Mosaics

I found this link off of the actor Jeff Bridges' web site (thanks Mr Bridges!). This Artist, Chris Jordan, does these amazing photo illustrations made of common items that are destroying our environment, our society, and even ourselves. In some pieces, the number of items used in each mosaic are representative of the overwhelming volume of consumption of the item that is damaging. They are amazingly detailed and shocking.

Please consider how you maybe contributing to these numbers and act accordingly. I personally need to buy cloth bags for grocery shopping.

View his social commentary mosaics.

The Powerful Symbol of Peace

As a teenager I remember drawing the peace sign on books. Not knowing where it came from I remember contemplating its design and hearing opinions on where the sign came from. I had heard the inverted cross, this wrong and was made up to discredit the symbol that had such an influence.

I just found out it came from a group protesting Nuclear Weapons in the late 50's in London. Like the Vitruvian Man, the symbol is a person inside a circle, signing the letters "N" "D" . The circle represents the earth and the letters stand for Nuclear Disarmament. Designed by Gerald Holtom, "a designer and former World War II conscientious objector from West London". From its original purpose, the symbol has transcended it's original meaning.

If you would like to know more about this most influential symbol, please read this BBC story, World's best-known protest symbol turns 50. Happy 50th Birthday Peace Sign!