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Shared by Ken Meier: “Kafka Int’l Named Most Alienating Airport.” Some pretty heady hilarity from the Onion. Pure genius.
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Three links from designer Eric Wrenn, unrelated and in no particular order: 1) Alpha-Bits Now Available in Serif Font, 2) Cross-stitching Times New Roman, and 3) 99 Web-Found Sentences.
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“The public made it clear that it didn’t want to support a brand it associated with a cold, gigantic corporation that exploits Third World child labor,” said Mark Ingersoll, head of DesignOne, the San Francisco-based graphic-design firm that created the new logo. “So we totally did away with that harsh, ‘corporate-looking’ lettering and went with a friendlier, more inviting font with a little more warmth and visual flair.” The Onion shares a story of a corporation whose new logo changes everything and inadvertently finds some truth along the way.
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Never has postmodern theory been applied more convincingly to modern design than in Jon Rosenblatt’s deconstruction a Burrito Bandito take-out menu.