Monday, September 24, 2012

Anatomy of a Logo: Perpetual Notion


Perpetual Notion was a New York City design studio formed by Tom Chung and Dale Campbell in the 1980s. In the mid-1970s I met Tom at Arizona State University when we were students. Dale was one of Tom’s classmates. Tom showed me some his logo designs for the new studio. I sketched a logo as an ambigram. Tom reworked my sketch, lettered the logo and designed the stationery.



(Related posts: Ambigrams, Scott Kim, John Langdon;
next Monday: Olivia De Berardinis’ Exotica Calendar)

Friday, September 21, 2012

Creator: John Langdon


Wordplay
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992

Dust jacket detail and selected pages

NEWSoS, Spring 1994
Newsletter of the Society of Scribes

Monday, September 17, 2012

Lettering: Ambigrams


The Strand Magazine
chump
honey

October 1908
W.H. Hill, Bet, bung, mow, pod, hay, dip

Omni magazine 1988


Vans advertisement, 1992

New X Men, July 2001

Topsys & Turvys
Peter Newell
Dover Publications, 1964
Cover and “puzzle / the end”


(Related posts: Scott Kim, John Langdon, Perpetual Notion)

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Street Scene: Fortune Cookie Day


September 13 is Fortune Cookie Day. (see 1 2
Here is a look at six businesses in cities
from sea to shining sea and across the pond.

S A N F R A N C I S C O
Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory
56 Ross Alley, Chinatown


 C H I C A G O 
Golden Dragon Fortune Cookies Co.
2323 South Archer Avenue


 O R L A N D O 
China Bowl Restaurant
movie lot at Disney-MGM Studios, 2007


 P H I L A D E L P H I A 
Lucky Chinese Cookie Factory
155 North 9th Street


 N E W Y O R K C I T Y 
Fortune Cookie
7604 13th Avenue, Brooklyn


 L O N D O N 
Fortune Cookie Chinese Buffet
27 Duke Street


(Next post on Monday: Ambigrams)