I was having a conversation with a friend today about brand as applied to personal image, and realized that if I took off my glasses and shaved my beard that no one would probably recognize me. 🙂
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So I’m in Baltimore, and I’m not a big fan of seafood. In fact, I had never had an oyster of any kind until last night when the opportunity arose. and I don’t know if I’ll be having them again soon, but it was not bad at all. Thanks to friends for sharing!
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So I realized a long time ago that Radiohead’s song “Creep” and Queens of the Stone Age’s song “How to handle a rope” (I think; I’ll check) “You can’t quit me baby” both use the beautiful lyric I illustrated here. Yeah it’s a little sad, but who doesn’t want someone to miss them? Anyway this is just a series of fonts overlapped on a gradient background in Inkscape.
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This is for Shaun, who finally has a name to call his home.
Thanks to Paula Ostroff for the phrase! If you have a phrase you’d like illustrated, please drop by 365sketches on Facebook!
This was a modified idea first proposed by Dan Wockee where the Android would appear with a Groucho Marx mask. Thanks, Dan, for the spark, and I hope this still works for you/does not get us fined. So if you know me, you know I’m into branding and Open Source. I thought it was funny that AT&T decided to use an Android-like mascot thing for its advertising, especially because I think that AT&T possibly thinks that consumers can’t tell the difference between the Android logo and the cute but similar unnamed mascots created by Jungeun Kim ). I mean no disrespect at all to Kim’s work, but I think AT&T could have done a better job in their brand distinction for Windows phones.
I’ve broken several copyright laws here by mixing Android, AT&T, and Star Wars universes, but if they want, they can ask me to take it down. However, I think I have a case for parody in the piece.
Incidentally, Google allows use of its logo under a Creative Commons license (yes!), as long as you say “Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.” Nice job, Google, once again.
Also, I recorded tonight’s screencast, but it failed. I did capture the audio though, so feel free to listen to the process.