Can't get enough of this statue design! Goldie!!!!!!! MACKIN' on the movies,!!!!!!! Props 2 @UncleRUSH and to the team of designers who chose Goldie from 'THE MACK' film as the All Def Movie Awards statue! An inspired design idea! And if you've not had the chance to check out the ceremony that aired on Fusion you can peep it on youtube.

NEW WORK FROM THE FOUNDRY: THE FOUNDATION ALBUM CREATIVE DIRECTION, ART DIRECTION, AND DESIGN

DRINKING TO THE KINGS FROM QUEENS (RUN DMC AND JAM MASTER JAY) AND THEIR CLASSIC LOGO!

Came across the music memorabilia site Rockabilia and found out that they had a whole section dedicated to RUN DMC and JMJ! T-shirts, robes, socks, posters, backpacks, beach towels, ear buds, and much more. The black ceramic drinking mugs and coasters rocking the classic RUN DMC logo looked like the move! So the decision was made to cop! Raising a mug to toast the "kings from Queens" and one of our favorite all-time rap related logo designs! Classic ish going down all the way 'round!  

NEW "FLY!" WORK: CORPORATE IDENTITY (LOGOTYPE) DESIGN FOR THE LOCAL COLOR PODCAST PROGRAM BASED IN BALTIMORE

Local Color is a podcast created/hosted by Jason V. The show takes its name from the term "local color", which refers to the "distinctive characteristics or peculiarities of a place in literature, drama, or as observed in reality." The weekly program "talks with culture creators in Charm City who are changing the narrative about Baltimore and the people that live here". The program also takes the name and definition of the phrase literally as Jason's goal is to also shine a light on local Baltimore based people of color doing work he feels is beneficial to the community.  

In the vein of other successful podcast typographic treatments, the desire of Jason's was to have a simple mark designed for his podcast. The mark's design solution is a simple combination of wordmark and symbol that fits the purpose of the program (holding a magnifying glass up to Baltimore's local color for the audience to see via earbud, earphone, audio speaker). 

"TA-NEHISI COATES TO WRITE BLACK PANTHER COMIC FOR MARVEL" (AND WE'RE NOW EVEN BIGGER FANS OF MARVEL!!!)

And Ta-Nehisi Coates (see his recent Atlantic monthly magazine article on 'The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration') article should be tapped to write the screenplay for the film debut of this superhero as well! We look forward to peeping out the comic, Black Panther's film costume design, movie posters, etc! 

From the New York Times online:

Ta-Nehisi Coates can be identified in many ways: as a national correspondent for The Atlantic, as an author and, as of this month, as a nominee for the National Book Award’s nonfiction prize. But Mr. Coates also has a not-so-secret identity, as evidenced by some of his Atlantic blog posts and his Twitter feed: Marvel Comics super fan.

So it seems only natural that Marvel has asked Mr. Coates to take on a new Black Panther series set to begin next spring... (read on)

('CAUSE ACCORDING TO P-FUNK'S GEORGE CLINTON, NI***RS ARE IN OUTER SPACE TOO (PART 2))!!! "INSIDE THE RISE AND FALL OF NASA’S BELOVED WORM LOGO"

We continue offering more intergallactic insights regarding NASA and design with the story behind NASA's "worm" logo  (see our ''CAUSE ACCORDING TO P-FUNK'S GEORGE CLINTON, NI***RS ARE IN OUTER SPACE TOO" PART 1... post) and what, if anything, George Clinton and his funked up P-Funk fantasies had to do with this ish. 

ONE OF GRAPHIC DESIGN’S most famous love triangle begins, as most graphic design stories do, with a request for proposal. It was 1974, and Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn, founders of New York design studio Danne & Blackburn, had just responded to such a request, one asking the firm to re-brand NASA. It came under the Federal Graphics Improvement Program, an ambitious effort to revamp the visual identity of government agencies, most of which were, in a word, ugly.

Danne & Blackburn’s proposal hinged on a futuristic wordmark that came to be known as “the worm"...

(read on)

And what does George Clinton and P-Funk have to do with all of this? He/they have absolutely nothing and also everything to do with NASA, its "funky" "worm" logo, and space exploration! There's no Connection save a Mothership one if, like us, you grew up Black w/a telescope at your disposal, a love for sci-fi, a love for graphic design and art, watched the space shuttle take off and land live on TV, had a turntable (maybe two) at the ready, and a pair of fly parents with the Funk Mob's music in their record collection! We did, so, whenever we think of anything having to do w/space exploration we get good and ready to rock steady and sweaty while imagining that sweet chariot might actually swing down, stop, let us ride into space, and make that connection with the Mothership. George Clinton calling out that funkafied roll call y'all, adding us to his list of "n***ers in outer space too".

('CAUSE ACCORDING TO P-FUNK'S GEORGE CLINTON, NI***RS ARE IN OUTER SPACE TOO) NASA GRAPHICS STANDARDS MANUAL FREE DOWNLOAD (PART 1)!!!

For anyone out there that grew up loving the NASA logo, looked up into the stars w/your own telescope, couldn't get enough of Star Wars, Star Trek, and anything else sci-fi related (including George Clinton's funked up mission of putting "n***rs in outer space" on P-Funk album covers), this one's for you! It's a FREE DOWNLOAD of the NASA Graphics Standards Manual made recently available by... NASA! This is truly straight up fly! And scroll down to get lifted by connecting w/the 'Mothership' as it lands. Enjoy!

"Swing down sweet cherriot, stop, and let me ride." --P-Funk