Consumer brand badges
Hope Chu adapted the military’s ribbons and decorations and created these “consumer badges” for her MFA thesis at RISD. Display your brand loyalties proudly!
Read More »Album covers and architecture
Inspired by a TED talk by Talking Heads singer and RISD alumnus David Byrne on the role and relationship between architecture and music, Architizer has an interesting short read on album covers that highlight this connection. It includes one of my favorite albums, Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot cover art which features Bertrand Goldberg’s “corn cob” [...]
Read More »Pigeons in uniforms
This is a flighty supplement to our focus previously on Ryan Berkley’s well dressed animals: RISD alumnus and a talented illustrator, Samantha Zaza’s “Coup” is an amusing series of portraits depicting solemn pigeons with “Napoleonic complexes” dressed in full ornamental uniforms. Semi-relatedly, a few years back, a friend of mine once walked into work and [...]
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