http://niceredshorts.com/blog Graphic Design, Advertising & Marketing in Our World and Online. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:57:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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: http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/06/06/photoshop-disasters/ 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. http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/04/24/brew-blog-vs-anheiser-busch/ This is a really great (and nicely designed) list of suggestions to help the planet: http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/04/24/50-things-you-can-do/ 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 ... http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/04/21/earth-day-sells-products/ This is a great story about Stanley Donwood, who created much of the artwork for the band, Radiohead since 1994. http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/04/15/drawing-radiohead/ "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. http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/04/08/old-cleveland-cavaliers-theme-song/ 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. http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/03/25/feltron-annual-report/ This is a logo I designed during the weekend blizzard for a soccer team in Cleveland. http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/03/10/portfolio-psa-united-logo/ This is probably the best site I've ever seen. Great information very well organized and entertaining to read. I love it! http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/02/21/unscrew-america-great-website/ 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. http://niceredshorts.com/blog/2008/02/14/the-bird-machine/