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This is a little work I did with sharpies, iPad, Photoshop and a scanner. It got slightly more psychedelic than I wanted. And it’s really not as “nifty fifties” as suspected. But it’s mesmerizing, isn’t it?

We want Honest Logos!

O.k. – first please watch these logos:

Now listen to this music:

And now read this:
If companies had to have logos that would tell you the plain truth about their products, wouldn’t the Earth be a better place?
(Dramatic pause: Listen to kitschy violin for 10 seconds at least!)
Does every company lie?

I personally have never ever consumed any product of any of the 30 companies that now – finally! – got honest logos from designer Victor Hertz.
But that’s a lie, too…

Finally click there:
Check out all 30 honest logos on Victor’s flickr album here.

R.I.P. Ronald Searle

Ronald Searle, born 1920, died on Saturday. He was easily the most influential British cartoonist of the sixties and seventies. Richard Thompson, the mind and master behind “Cul de Sac” describes his style perfect in two sentences:
“His pen could do anything; it went curling and spiraling all over the paper, describing a world that was ugly, bitter, grotesque, hilarious and sometimes, briefly, quite sweet. It made me suddenly aware of how liquid ink is, how it skips and splotches and pools when it hits the paper.”

Nothing to add to this. But I would like to point your attention to a non-cartoon-book of Holy Searle. He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese from February 1942 to August 1945. All this time he managed to sketch and draw and to hide his work from his suppressors. It’s kind of a drawn diary of a young man trying to stay mentally sane in an insane, incredible cruel world.

These drawings proof the genius that was Ronald Searle. And to quote Richard Thompson again: “I’d give my right arm if I could draw like this.” So do I. (I’m lefthanded, too.)

Visit Richard Thompson’s blog here, read today’s ‘Cul de Sac here or read a review of this book written by Irish poet Padraig Rooney here.

And if you want, you can buy “To the Kwai and Back” from Amazon here – thus donating some cents to the In-Sect.