Now for being stupid and believing in witchcraft you will have to work much harder to recoup the money you gave us.

›› Columbian pyramid scheme crooks taunting their victims

Nicholas and Angela, from Kansas City, piece together parts found at antique and thrift stores and build their own line of robot sculptures. Very nice work, guys!

Helvetica looked at Arial and remarked, “You’re ugly”.
Arial replied “Well, Aksidenz do happen”

What type of diabetes is a graphic designer most likely to get diagnosed with?
Type 1 →

A typographer’s favorite hotel in Las Vegas/casino in Singapore?
The Sans →

A font walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey, we don’t serve your type here” and he called the Serif.

What typeface do fish fear most?
Gill Sans

Favourite Bob Marley song
“I Shot The Serif”

Favourite Madonna song
“Justify My Love”

Why did the graphic designer go see the psychic?
He wanted to see what was in his Futura.

Arial looked at Helvetica and remarked, “You’re ugly”.
Helvetica replied “Well, you’re no Ms Univers yourself!”

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don’t go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

›› That’s Banksy trying to say something

Everybody loves fireworks during the annual National Day Parades, but with every passing year, it feels more and more like an excessive indulgence. We do need to mark our independence but all the blinding lights, screaming jets and massive pyrotechnics seem very exuberant and expensive. Maybe the money for the electricity, fuel and fireworks could be saved and channeled to other worthwhile causes.

But everybody loves the fireworks and it only seems to get bigger every passing year. At least, we don’t go anywhere near the massive show of opulence and over-elaboration at the Olympics opening ceremony.

Super retro presentation slides from 1975 — you should check out some of the awesome 70s graphic work in there. Actually, these slides look better than some Powerpoint slides I have seen.

First there is the pillage which will be followed by the burning of the land.

Back then, if you couldn’t sing or write a song and yet you needed to express your feelings for someone, you’d have made a mix tape. Armed with a dual tape deck, our crappy musical tastes were a form of creative expression, with the analogue cassette tape as the canvas.

Nowadays, I hear that the kids just dedicate songs on Facebook.

• aching muscles
• blurred vision
• clinical depression
• color blindness
• daytime drowsiness and naps
• decreased mental activity and concentration
• “depersonalization”
• weakened immune system
• general confusion
• hallucinations
• impatience
• irritability
• psychosis
• pallor
• slowed reaction time
• memory loss

You may want to close your eyes, sit in a quiet spot and loosen any tight clothing.

›› Don’t overdo the loosening if you’re in a public place

Reminds me of Mark Renton’s rant in Trainspotting.

…NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT. It is 56 words long and comes from Russia. It even made it to the Guiness Book of World Records and it refers to “The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR”.

The longest acronym, on the other hand, is ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC, which is a United States Navy term that stands for “Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command”.