{"id":12727,"date":"2008-04-15T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/lasers-orwell-and-mad-magazine.html"},"modified":"2008-04-15T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T14:39:52","slug":"lasers_orwell_and_mad_magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/lasers_orwell_and_mad_magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasers, Orwell, and Mad Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New illustrated biz:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NYT offers a great interactive presentation of Al Jaffee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2008\/03\/28\/arts\/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html\">Mad Magazine fold-ins<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Putting the <em><strong>king<\/strong><\/em> back in stal<em><strong>king<\/strong>.<\/em>&quot; Big ups to Barska binoculars for <a href=\"http:\/\/copyranter.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/i-prefer-to-think-of-myself-as-stranger.html\">breaking some new ground<\/a> with their ads. &quot;I prefer to think of myself as a &#8216;stranger enthusiast&#8217;&#8230;&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CoudalFreshSignals\/~3\/268623270\/barska_binocula.php\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Art nerds who <em>really<\/em> want wedgies can opt for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moleskinerie.com\/2008\/02\/unicorns-we-bel.html\">laser-etched Moleskine unicorn notebook<\/a>.&#160; I wonder whether you can read it from inside the darkened locker where you&#8217;ve been stuffed.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/11\/laser-etched-moleski.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Shout-outs to the Eastern Bloc:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eismann-sf.com\/news\/?p=370\">Shepard Fairey does George Orwell<\/a>, via covers for <em>Nineteen Eighty Four<\/em> and <em>Animal Farm<\/em>. <\/li>\n<li>Peep some crisp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedieline.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/lovejoy-vodka.html\">label designs for Lovejoy Vodka<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CoudalFreshSignals\/~3\/268407768\/lovejoy_vodka.php\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Logos:\n<ul>\n<li>Toyota offers Scion users the ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/24\/business\/media\/24adco.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin\">roll their own logos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/article\/logo-smackdown-apple-vs-nyc\">Apple vs. the Big Apple<\/a>: Mom, Dad, don&#8217;t fight! <\/li>\n<li>The  logo for the Al Gore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2008\/04\/06\/weekinreview\/06heller.html\">Alliance for Climate Protection<\/a> is a crafty little <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ambigram\">ambigram<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me:<\/em> The NYT features a slideshow of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2008\/03\/31\/science\/0401-PATCH_index.html\">logos of secret US military programs<\/a>, along with an accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/01\/science\/01patc.html?_r=3&amp;8dpc&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">article<\/a>.&#160; Trevor Paglen&#8217;s book of the logos is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Could-Tell-Then-Would-Destroyed\/dp\/1933633328\">here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New illustrated biz: The NYT offers a great interactive presentation of Al Jaffee&#8217;s Mad Magazine fold-ins. &quot;Putting the king back in stalking.&quot; Big ups to Barska binoculars for breaking some new ground with their ads. &quot;I prefer to think of myself as a &#8216;stranger enthusiast&#8217;&#8230;&quot; [Via] Art nerds who really want wedgies can opt for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}