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Duane Reade Continues to Face Rape NYers

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 Posted in Advertising, Bad Design, Branding, Consumerism, Design, Graphic Design, Gross, New York City, Typography, WTF is up with... | 1 Comment »

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! In our first post for the new year, I'd like to bring to your attention a little thing that Duane Reade is doing to NYers. If you're not familiar with Duane Reade, it is a local pharmacy ...

Ohh Comic Sans… How I Hate You So

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in Graphic Design, Typography | No Comments »

Great video on how Comic Sans is a design epidemic. This is an overused, truly childish type face that needs to stop being used over and over again. I won’t get into my hatred for Papyrus right now but enjoy ...

Tell Us How You Really Feel

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Branding, Current News, Design, Furniture, Typography | No Comments »

Type fanatics the world over seem to have gotten themselves into a tizzy over IKEA's decision to abandon their "Ikea Sans" typeface (a customized version of Futura) and implement Verdana, universally, on their web and print materials. Now, I am a ...

Naked Girl + Magazine Cover + Writing On Her Body=Trying to Save a Horrible Magazine.

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 Posted in Beauty, Photography, Pics, Typography | No Comments »

So Esquire must be struggling. It's been limping along for a while now and has not been a relevant periodical in a very, long time.  Even though it gave birth to the racy men's magazines in 30's...not so much now. ...

The Curse Of The PAPYRUS Strikes Again.

Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in Bad Design, Graphic Design, Typography | No Comments »

Once again, Papyrus plagues our designs. You have such a great wavy type face in your whole design. Yet, you still choose to SHIT on it by placing ( in size 48pt font ) that ugly Papyrus, in the middle ...