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I love the ending of that SNL Papyrus sketch, with Ryan Gosling screaming at the graphic designer in the window, "I know what you did! I know what you did!!" Big laugh at the title card.

I wouldn't say Cooper Black is everywhere. If any typeface could be accused of being "everywhere" it's ***king default Arial. For each example in that video of a sign using Cooper Black they could have found 10 or even 100 using Arial. And the type would probably be artificially squeezed and...

I intend to check out the 2024 US solar eclipse, but I'm not sure exactly where I want to try to view it, probably somewhere to the East or South of Dallas as close to the centerline as possible. According to one map areas in South Texas will have the longest durations of totality in the US. As...

Flexi lacks some critical features on the design end of things. That's not to say Affinity Designer is all that advanced either (it pales in comparison quite badly compared to Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW). But at least Affinity Designer can handle advanced features of OpenType fonts. Affinity...

I ruined a lot of issues of Mad Magazine to see how his folded illustrations would line up. Al Jaffee was one of the greats and had the longest run of any cartoonist at a magazine.

Next year on April 8 there is going to be a hell of a solar eclipse across a good part of the US. I'm hoping for clear skies. It's likely a bunch of people "watching" the eclipse will be trying to videotape it thru their phones rather than actually be there in that very rare moment. One thing...

Obsessive phone use is just out of control. Saturday, I was driving down a local street toward a signaled intersection. A car up ahead at the intersection was just sitting there despite the green light. The car only started moving when the signal turned yellow. I guess the clown had to finish...

The "LLC" element looks like someone stretched Tekton quite a bit.

Overall, I don't have a very positive opinion of AI-generated art. Basically it seems like a hustle, using technology to completely de-value art and the skills it takes to create it manually. AI poses similar threats to creative writing and music. The people developing and promoting this AI...

It didn't take Red China to convince me of that.:D Seriously, there are too many Gen-X people my age who are stupid and stoned. The Millennials and Gen-Z people don't have a monopoly on being unreliable goof-ups. There are plenty in every age group.

The Chinese government's interests go a whole lot farther than just keeping tabs on "stupid young Americans." They really want to influence the outcomes of our elections. Obviously, going after young adults probably isn't the smartest of ideas. Young adults are notoriously stupid-bad at voting...

Nah, it's not Rockwell. Arizon looks like the winner.

Yeah. Facebook, Twitter, Instragram, Linkedin or whatever are not state-owned, state-controlled entities. That's very clear. The US government has to jump through a lot of legal hoops to subpoena data from those companies, which usually attracts a hell of a lot of publicity. And the gub'ment is...

I have no desire at all to create a TikTok account. Even though younger people appear to enjoy it the app seems like a big waste of time to me. In the early days of Facebook that app seemed really great. I was able to get back in touch with a lot of friends I had during my childhood and teenage...

I can't seem to identity two of the typefaces used in the attached image, the "Las" script and "Catrinas" wood type lettering. I've seen the typeface used for "Catrinas" before. I thought it might be on DaFont or a similar site; nothing turned up in the "western" category that matched.

The City of Prattville's seal "concept" is pretty terrible: a bunch of complicated seals inside a larger seal. It reminds me of those Matryoshka dolls (the Russian tea dolls that stack inside of each other). Usually it is a committee of not-creative people who cook up ideas like that. "The logo...

Just a word of warning: there are only so many sign companies that have fabrication shop space, offices, install/service trucks, etc that are willing to take "outsourced" work from competing "sign companies." There are even fewer who are willing to do such work for dirt cheap pay. In our case...

I'm pretty sure you will have to use a "generic" intermediate file format, such as EPS. Unless I missed something Flexi can't directly open or import SignLab files. I've heard SignLab can import Flexi FS files (but I don't know how accurate that claim may be).

A bunch of these "designers" trying to do graphics work as a side-hustle enjoy passing themselves off as "professionals" when spamming their services. If we're talking about professionalism and credentials/experience, they don't have the muscles needed to lift my jock strap. And their...

Certain features in the artwork have me pretty much convinced the "designer" actually did create the artwork in a vector-based application. Also, usually when I see "logos" that are created using Adobe Photoshop (or another pixel-based image editing application) the "designers" often go nuts...