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 Packaging concept for Posseession wine From Dainel Brokstad: Possession is a limited edition unholy wine collection, featuring “Evil Demon – Bloody Shiraz”, “Haunting Ghost – Spooky Cabernet” and “Old Witch – Cursed Pinot Noir”. All the wines comes in a solid coffin shaped glossy casing, which adds to the exclusiveness of the wine series. Each are based on different occult themes as satanism, the paranormal and witchcraft. The type design on each bottle reflects it’s theme and was made in a rough way to contrast the otherwise clean setup and design, to give it more of an edgy look.
This is a self initialized conceptual design.
 DC releases new Brand Identity DC Comics has released their new “brand identity” initial reaction, “I hate it”. 5 minute later reaction, “maybe it will grow on me.” I viewed how DC plans to tie it in across their brands and it’s well thought out, and will probably be fairly dynamic when animated.
I admit I grew up on DC comics, and while I always found Milton Glaser’s logo for them rock solid, I wasn’t opposed to the Brainchild Studios revamp in 2005. In fact I thought that version brought a lot of energy while keeping with Glaser’s concept and the companies history.
My first thought is that the new logo doesn’t stand on it’s own. On their blog DC shows a variety of – frankly – neat things they’ll do with the logo. But if you just bang it down it’s looks ungrounded. I’m sure people will wrongly call it modern, when what they mean is it’s slick and new and CGI looking.
I’ll say I’m gonna give it a shot. Let’s face it, I only read Vertigo, indies and Captain America anymore. The next time I’ll see the new logo will be at the comic shop and when my next Batman fix hits the theaters, I’ll see then if it makes a better impression.
 Milton Glaser logo (l) and Brainchild Studios logo
Progress on this week’s cartoon. Original sketch, that was changed mid inks, that was then changed during coloring. All in all I’m pretty happy. I even like how the pinstripe turned out, i was kinda of worried about it, since it’s not how I usually go.
I kind of preferred the original concept which I set in an office. It was slightly less bludgeoning about the lawyer concept. However the revised idea has the benefit of more opulence. So, kind of a trade off.
Great underground vibe on this new cover from French Let’s Motive: ‘a french free magazine distributed in Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, Lyon and Toulouse.’
It reminds me a Nick Knight‘s work for Massive Attack.
My editor tells me that tires now cost a lot more. They should switch up to the extra wide single tires instead of running duelies.
Reminds me of one day Rick Beckrich, the previous TT cartoonists, was making a comment about bobtail tractors. The rest of the staff,and I, stared at him blankly. “BOBTAILS! Trucks without trailers,” he exclaimed. “I’ll make truckers out of the lot of you some day,” he muttered as he stalked away in disgust.
Great Wood Whale from Fab. I adore that the mouth holds smart phone, trés clever. Additionally a portion of each sale goes to support the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Wood panels are formaldehyde free and include spacers on back to extend depth when mounted on walls.
Available here while supplies last http://fab.com/sale/2745/product/55587/
 Black Ceramic Speakers by Joey Roth Just saw these on Fab.com, a sale website. While wood stands aren’t a great idea, from an audiophile point of view, they really do look nice. Very clean and simple speakers, probably great for an iPod or other MP3 player.
http://fab.com/sale/2769/product/48687/
This ceramic speaker set includes two speakers, two wood board stands, two wood bars, amplifier, black power supply, two pink speaker cables, one black 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable, one black RCA to 3.5mm cable and black power cord. Output: 15 W/ channel. Sensitivity: 89dB. Freq. Range: 70Hz-20kHz. Impedance: 4 Ohm. Driver Materials: Paper diaphragm, aluminum phase plug, neodymium magnet, die-cast basket
 A book mark would be better! The Library of Congres shas posted a great collection of public domain, depression era WPA posters. There’s a great variety of subjects, from education and the arts, to work safety, and – well – using a bookmark!
See them all here
Wrapped this up last night. Having just driven up and down the Jersey Turnpike this is a bit personal. 
 This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids
via This Is Colossal
“This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. How great is this?”
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