New Work: Logo Design

Recently completed this logo for startup lawfirm (I know, I know) Kurtz & Augenlicht, LLP. Good guys, really know their stuff, going to do well for themselves, I imagine. Now, if they'll only let me fix their website.

Listomania

Every December everyone in the world rolls out their best-of lists for everything imaginable. Movies, books, albums, videos, pop culture moments, red carpet outfits, culinary achievements, and so forth. This practice is stupid and pointless. Or is it? If everyone is doing it, and you're not, aren't you the stupid one? Right. Let's get to it.

Top Thirteen Thematically-Relevant Songs/Videos Used in My Weekly Fantasy Football League Note This Year:

1. "Crush My Battleopponent's Balls," Dethklok
2. "The Rat," The Walkmen
3. "Floyd the Barber," Nirvana
4. "Where There's A Will There's A Whalebone," Islands
5. "Saved by Zero," The Fixx
6. "Seven Nation Army," The White Stripes
7. "She's Lost Control," Joy Division
8. "Well Alright," Spoon
9. "Robots Fucking," TV on the Radio
10. "Take it or Leave it," The Strokes
11. "Banquet," Bloc Party
12. "So Bored," Wavvves
13. "Two Weeks," Grizzly Bear
    

Listomania

Every December everyone in the world rolls out their best-of lists for everything imaginable. Movies, books, albums, videos, pop culture moments, red carpet outfits, culinary achievements, and so forth. This practice is stupid and pointless. Or is it? If everyone is doing it, and you're not, aren't you the stupid one? Right. Let's get to it.

Top Ten Radio Stations I Listened to in the Car on My Way Home from Work Today:

1. 87.7
2. 88.3
3. 88.7
4. 89.3
5. 91.5
6. 93.1
7. 94.7
8. 97.1
9. 98.7
10. 104.3

Listomania

Every December everyone in the world rolls out their best-of lists for everything imaginable. Movies, books, albums, videos, pop culture moments, red carpet outfits, culinary achievements, and so forth. This practice is stupid and pointless. Or is it? If everyone is doing it, and you're not, aren't you the stupid one? Right. Let's get to it.

Top Ten Swears I Said Yesterday Morning When My Car Wouldn't Start

1. Fuck
   
2. Shit
3. Motherfucker
4. Dammit!
   
5. Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
6. Son of a bitch
7. COCK!
   
8. Rat fucker
9. Cocksucker
10. God dammit (dejectedly)

Listomania

Every December everyone in the world rolls out their best-of lists for everything imaginable. Movies, books, albums, videos, pop culture moments, red carpet outfits, culinary achievements, and so forth. This practice is stupid and pointless. Or is it? If everyone is doing it, and you're not, aren't you the stupid one? Right. Let's get to it.

Top Ten Last Ten Songs iTunes Shuffle Played for Me

1. "Mbira in the Morass," Volcano Choir
2. "Bonnie and Clyde," Wayne Horovitz and Robin Holcomb
3. "Year of the Dragon," Sufjan Stevens/Osso
4. "Waiting for my Man," Beck
5. "Woe is You and Me," The Strange Boys
6. "Is and Always Was," Daniel Johnston
7. "Wordy Rappinghood," Tom Tom Club
8. "Sweet Road," Animal Collective
9. "Hiding Neath My Umbrella," God Help the Girl
10. "Cool Places," Sparks and Jane Wiedlin
    

Listomania

Every December everyone in the world rolls out their best-of lists for everything imaginable. Movies, books, albums, videos, pop culture moments, red carpet outfits, culinary achievements, and so forth. This practice is stupid and pointless. Or is it? If everyone is doing it, and you're not, aren't you the stupid one? Right. Let's get to it.

Top Ten Things on My Desk Right Now:

1. Staples brand ballpoint pen, blue
   
2. Cowboy mug
   
3. Note paper bearing the following list (how meta!):
   
   • smaller typeface
     
   • connection
     
   • cscp webinar
     
   • p&p
     
   • enews tracking links
4. iPhone
5. Time sheet
6. Keys, house and automobile
7. Binder clip functioning as money clip containing five dollar bill, CTA card, two debit cards, insurance card, and Costco membership card
8. Holiday music mix CD given to me by a coworker. Track ten: "White Christmas," by the Drifters
9. Moleskine notebook approximately 1/6th filled with still more lists
10. Invitation to a recycling party. Donation of three cell phones, laptops, iPods, or Kindles grants me free admission, and Kermit the Frog may or may not be making an appearance.
    

New Work: (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest Poster Design

Version 5.0 of the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest is happening in about six weeks and once again Ive been tabbed to design the poster for it. (That's part of it up there. Peep the full version here.)

Now, I know what you're thinking and I'll tell you the same thing I told Lit Fest director Timothy Schaffert: No, those are not my wife's legs. They're mine. Her shoes, though.

The (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest happens September 17-19, 2009, in—doy—Omaha, NE. See omahalitfest.com for details.