ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

Jeez, that's got to have a hell of a backstory - sad, digital, curvy woman with jheri curls in silver one-piece.  I came across this one - not sure what it would be used for: 
EPS Illustration - Vector illustratiion of sad man think about suicide by jumping off the building roof. depressed person with suicidal thoughts. Vector Clipart gg126973053

elipse 😜

 Proclivities wrote:
 

I’ve got a box of French curves and eclipse guides  from those primitive drafting days : )

I hit the google looking for clip art of a sad person*. I guess this really ticks all the boxes.

*for an ad about wrecking your car

 JrzyTmata wrote:
 
Yeah, leaning over a drawing table at 3 AM so I could finish it and turn it in before the bi-weekly invoicing deadline.  I think I used rubylith more often - it was easier to get for some reason, but harder to see through.  I still have one of those pivoting-blade X-Acto knives.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

ahh. many years spent cutting amberlith. the good ol' days of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Sign guys are not to be trusted. They are incapable of solving any problem and will, in fact, make any problem worse. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

 haresfur wrote:
  

 
Can't tell Copy anything.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
You graphic designers still need to pay attention to the writing composition

 Proclivities wrote:
 

It's their Art and Photography Buyer's Guide issue. The 2nd one they've done. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
I hadn't heard that term before either; I assume it meant clip-art.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Not sure I've heard the term "second art" before. edit  I was trying to make it a term of commercial art. Ah, nevermind.

$1 in 1953 = about $10 now, so about the same as a copy of Comm Arts.

Art Director & Studio News - Illustrated by Amundsen - February 1953

On March 16 HBO will premiere David Simon’s mini-series of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America. In this alternate history the fascist-leaning America First isolationists field aviator-hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh for president against Franklin D. Roosevelt. In today’s political era this fiction is all too timely. (...)

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Neutron capture is my favourite atomic process

Classic Pelican book covers – in pictures
Bibliophiles and retro design fans will love the Pelican Project, an online time capsule of book covers from the (now defunct) educational arm of Penguin books. Lovingly curated by editor and journalist Jonathan Bell from his personal collection of Pelican books, the huge online gallery spans the decades from the 1930s to Pelican's final publication in the 80s. Delve into the collection and see for yourself the evolution from formulaic to fantastique at thingsmagazine.net.

Hell vet ica - The Veterinarian that takes care of Cerberus’s hiccups.  

Helvetica’s evil twin, Hellvetica, will haunt your nightmares

“We wanted people to see this in the wild and be like, ‘What the HELL is wrong with my computer?'” says the typeface’s creator, Matthew Woodward.