America’s road sign legends
Burma-Shave's rhyming ads turned highway billboards into poetry, and changed advertising -- and America
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Advertising
J.J. Sedelmaier
Life Imprint, Advertising
7Up’s branding revolution
How "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" became one of America's most popular soft drinks
Monday, May 7, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 10Entertainment Imprint, Advertising, Design
Pop culture’s Rosetta Stone
A company know for its memorable full-page comic book ads continues to influence graphic design today
Thursday, Apr 19, 2012 12:00 AM UTCLife Advertising, Design, Imprint
Disney’s animation guide
The father of film cartoons looked to this 1920s how-to book for inspiration
Friday, Apr 6, 2012 12:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design
Drawing “Pinocchio”
A fascinating book traces the work of an early Disney sketch artist
Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012 12:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design
A Superman art mystery
The hero's first novel features drawings both by the comic book's co-creator and by some unnamed artist
Friday, Mar 9, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 10Life Imprint, Design
Tasty food that looks disgusting
A '60s cookbook hawking Soviet recipes provides a bizarre example of stunted graphic design
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 23Life Imprint, Design, Food
The “lighter side” of the Vietnam War
An illustrated '60s-era book presents a non-p.c. version of a GI's perspective on the combat
Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 16Life Imprint, Design
Posters that rival the London Underground
These fascinating transit posters provide a different view of 1920s Chicago
Friday, Jan 27, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 10Life Imprint, Design, Chicago
The bizarre Bruce Lee flipbook craze
These '70s relics re-create his action sequences -- and provide a hilarious example of hard-sell design packaging
Friday, Jan 13, 2012 1:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design
Holiday greetings: A design retrospective
I look back at the best cards the Sedelmaier studio has created over the years
Friday, Dec 30, 2011 1:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design
The beauty of billboards
A fascinating book from 1923 traces the history and application of outdoor advertising
Monday, Dec 19, 2011 1:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design, Advertising
A fond farewell to the hard-wired phone
From "Superman" to "I Love Lucy," we look back at the role this outdated played in television and film
Monday, Dec 5, 2011 1:00 AM UTC 31Life Imprint, Design
How Ford built the ultimate lemon
A look at the design and promotion that went into the company's biggest flop: the Edsel
Thursday, Nov 17, 2011 1:00 AM UTC 24Life Imprint, Design, Auto Industry
When corporations invested in souvenirs
A look at the intimate, illustrated booklets produced by the Pullman railroad company from 1929 to 1930
Friday, Oct 28, 2011 12:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design
The art of character-reading
Inside an unusual illustrated work from 1902 that has long fascinated me
Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 12:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design
When Cartoon Network was born
In 1992, the idea of a 24-hour cartoon channel was mind-blowing
Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 12:00 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design, Comics
Lessons from a New Yorker cartoonist
A two-spot campaign we worked together on for Pacific Bell redefined how I saw the collaborative process
Monday, Oct 10, 2011 12:01 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design, Comics
What you can learn from a sketchbook
These fascinating 19th-century drawings provide a unique insight into one artist's process
Friday, Sep 30, 2011 12:01 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design
From illustration to animation
Inside the collaborative process that turned a set of drawings into three TV commercial spots
Monday, Sep 26, 2011 12:01 AM UTCLife Imprint, Design
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