Don't be a Hater

I never stopped to think about the person who invented one of the most despised and ridiculed typefaces. But Vincent Connare, as the creator of Comic Sans, appears to have accepted his fate and has a good time with it. Here he is performing a standup routine about his infamous typeface at ROLFthing in New York. Also a great article on him in the Wall Street Journal and more on his blog. Thanks to Kate Hogan for contributing.

Much More than Doodles

For a recent issue of Los Angeles, art director Joe Kimberling collaborated with Marian Bantjes to create the cover. The result is a notebook cover filled with doodles done entirely in ballpoint pen inspired by a creative, but bored high school student (source: Creative Quarterly Magazine, No. 13). The most incredible example of ballpoint pen work I have ever seen in person was a huge work on canvas by Andrei Molodkin [20' x 8.5'] done completely in blue ballpoint pen at Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York. Does anyone know of any other artists/designers who use ballpoint pen? How about a typeface created from this? 

And I quote...

Fantastic quotes from Paul Rand can be found in one of Steven Heller's new books, Paul Rand: A Designer's Words. It features a collection of quotes and comments from a variety of presentations, conferences and interviews of the famous designer. And it's free and downloadable as a .pdf file. So print it out and paste a quote on each day of your calendar for inspiration.