Scotty Nguyen’s infamous 2008 World Series of Poker $50,000 HORSE Final Table drunken rampage. One of the funniest videos on Youtube. When I need to do a Vietnamese accent, I always go back to this video for source material.
I buy my coffee grinders like I do my coke, out the back of a gold Mercedes in broad daylight from a white guy with pizza stains on his shirt who goes by two different names.
The YMFY logo is a Barbara Kruger bite. I hope I don’t get sued.
“Also, in application, they list Omnes and Source Sans Pro as primary typefaces with ITC Avant Garde Gothic as a secondary typeface… um, no. Unless you are being graphically ironic, you do not mix three sans serif fonts like that. I’m thinking I’ll apply as a TaskRabbit and run the errand of selecting some typefaces for them.” (via Brand New)
(Editor’s note: Hate the new logo. Time to delete the app.)
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What happens when you pay two monkeys unequally?
“It is like being given a coloring book that your brother already colored in,” said Michael Bierut, of the design firm Pentagram in New York City. A passport, not unlike a scrapbook, gets its allure from gradually accruing exotic stamps, with the blank pages holding the promise of future adventure, he and other designers said. But they find that the new jumble of pictures detracts from that.
“There is also something a little coercive about a functional object serving as a civics lesson, even a fairly low-grade civics lesson,” Mr. Bierut said. (via)
(Editor’s note: I really hate how the US passport looks like on the inside…like something Kenny Powers might have designed.)
