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Unlike Barack Obama's campaign, which has inspired a ton of independent street art and t-shirts (just check out our Flickr pool of 2008 Election Graphics), Hillary Clinton's and John McCain's campaigns have had few grassroots graphics. The Clinton campaign's new project, Project T-Shirt (with a logo ripped off of Project Runway) is hoping to inspire designers, promising that the winning T-shirt design will be sold in the official campaign online store. As Tim Gunn would say, "Make it work."
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In "Words
of Wool," an interview from
Voice: AIGA Journal of Design, Rudinger Schlomer
talks "conceptual knitting circles" and how they help him fashion new
scarves cobbled together from cut-up German football scarves.
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Ghost ads are the sun-bleached and peeling remnants of painted signs, offering perceptive passersby a glimpse at long-gone commercial designs and type. Few fading ad aficionados are as diligent as the photographer Frank H. Jump, who prolifically catalogs his discoveries in visual time travel in one of our favorite blogs Fading Ad Blog. Jump is not only blessed with the time and energy to tirelessly track down ghost ads, but also has a knack for evocative photography that captures vintage billboards in a modern context, framing the signs with the intriguing details of the contemporary street scene.
Jump’s documentation of Americana is more than just the result of an obsessive-compulsive collector’s impulse. He explains in his blog that he is inspired by the symbolic parallels between objects that outlive their expected life span and stories of human fade-outs. For Jump, a fading ad is an urban testament to survival, the advertising equivalent of a flower growing in a crack of the sidewalk. STEPHANIE HEISE
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Check out the party photos from our awesome New Visual Artists party here!
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The Art Directors Club's 87th Annual Awards Gala is this Thursday, May 1. The ADC requests that guests wear "creative party attire" and promises tunes from these artists/DJs:
Shepard Fairey (OBEY, Studio Number One)
Tim Harrington (Les Savy Fav)
Paul Pope (graphic novelist, Batman: Year 100)
Mike Reger (R/GA)
Jeff Staple (Staple Design)
Jakob Trollback (Trollback + Company)
Tickets available here.
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