Mother Goose
Mother Goose Whimsical, happy-go-lucky poems + sinister below-the-surface meaning = most Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Ring Around The Rosie is, seemingly, a playful sing-along for children that is rumored to actually describe The English Plague of the 1600’s where 70,000 people died in London. Visually throwing the macabre and the cheerful together makes for an […]
Salvadore Dali
Salvadore Dali And the award for “Weirdest Book Entry” goes to…probably this. To be fair: this image idea, strangely enough, came to me in my sleep. No idea why. No context in the dream. And nothing going on in everyday life that was particularly about feet. But I couldn’t shake it because of its oddly […]
Henry Ford
Henry Ford Henry Ford’s quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” is a fantastic tribute to innovation and entrepreneurialism—which is a design lesson in and of itself. It also sets up a great visual dichotomy between horse and car. Do you see the initial demand made by […]
Game of Thrones
When You Play the Game of Thrones You Win or You Die It’s winner-take-all according to Cersei Lannister. That’s great if you actually win–but, of course, most won’t. So, is that crown a good or a bad thing?
Hive Mind
Hive Mind Bold, graphic, and contemporarily logo-like, this looks like it could be the identity for some mathematically technological start-up company spearheading a new form of artificial intelligence. Precisely.
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling Explaining The Righteous Brothers by way of Mr. Spock. I suspect that sometime in the decades to come that Tinder or Match.com will have an even-more-technically-advanced app to dial-in just how much love you are looking for. Hopefully that app will display by 3D holographic beams. That would be cool…the […]
It’s Aliens
Giorgio Tsoukalos The crazy-haired Ancient Astronaut Theorist may not have actually said this (it’s an internet meme), but it sums him up perfectly as he attributes every fantastical situation to aliens. There’s science, and there’s slightly kooky. The kooky’s kinda fun. Context matters.
Poo Stew
Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen Makes Poo Stew One of my own favorite things to say, this was tricky to visualize. Make it too real and it looks sophomorish. Make it not-real-enough and you don’t get any emotional gut-punch. Make the food photography too pretty and you COULD interpret it to mean “making something […]
Joseph Stalin
Principles Triumph, They Do Not Compromise –Stalin Agree? Compromise? Sure (that’s sarcasm). Certain people–maybe even you at times–will feign acquiescence while actually intending quite the opposite. Or certainly feeling as such. Everyone thinks they’re the good guy (see this previously visualized). Your principles are the “correct”, “more important” ones. And should win out at all […]
The Enemy of My Enemy
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend When brainstorming this there was something charming about the primitive, child-like initial sketches that a more “refined” rendering just lost in translation. Boiling the essence of the idea down to a straightforward and literal (almost rebus-like) visualization that walked you through its meaning makes the understanding of […]