Posted on June 6th, 2008 by joshgerken
This site of terrible photoshopping is really funny. Especially coming from published materials. Somehow this stuff made it through creative directors, editors and proofreaders. This one is great:

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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by joshgerken

Brew Blog is about the beer industry, but mostly about Aheuser-Busch, who is 50% of the whole industry. Here’s an interesting story on the Wall Street Journal. Mmmm, beer.
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by joshgerken
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by joshgerken
Americas largest companies have fully embraced Earth Day as a way to sell more products. Totally counter intuitive of the point of the day. This article from Ad Age has many good points, including the proactive blogosphere who is fact checking the companies and holding them accountable for the sustainable / green principals and products they market.
Treehugger points to other large companies to profit from this marketing trend.

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Posted on April 15th, 2008 by joshgerken
This is a great story about Stanley Donwood, who created much of the artwork for the band, Radiohead since 1994.

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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by joshgerken
“Gonna make it happen.” This song is awesome. It’s from some old 1970’s Cavaliers campaign. Nice bass line, very funky with some pretty sweet horn lines. They really should consider busting this out again these days. Interesting history about the logo and uniforms.

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Posted on March 25th, 2008 by joshgerken
Nicholas Feltron designs a personal annual report with very cool looking graphs and illustrations. The dimensionality and organization of the info make it very easy to read. No wonder that he’s done this type of work for The New York Times.

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Posted on March 10th, 2008 by joshgerken
This is a logo I designed during the weekend blizzard for a soccer team in Cleveland.

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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by joshgerken
This is probably the best site I’ve ever seen. Great information very well organized and entertaining to read. I love it!

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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by joshgerken
Great indie rock posters (and album covers) from Chicago artist, Jay Ryan. Including lots of cute animals. Nice work! Here’s the story from Utne.

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