The Gonzo Fist by Paul Pascarella .
Paul Pascarella writes:
I would just like to be clear on the logo that you are refering to, the Gonzo fist, or the actual Gonzo logo with fist, name and dagger blade. The two thumbed fist with peyote button was originally designed by Hunter and a local Aspen artist named Tom Benton. It was first used I believe as a Freak Power symbol when Hunter was running for Sheriff in Aspen in 69′ when Benton designed the poster.
The actual Gonzo logo that you …

Expressing similar sentiments and political slant to Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight, check out the beautifully realized, infographic-inspired piece on America’s involvement in Iraq, What Barry Says by Knife Party.

PROJECT: Red Riding Hood Monogram
CLIENT: Croma Design
ROLE: Design

At the end of the fifties, at time when the bohemians still ruled the East Village, a New York artist named Ray Johnson began corresponding w/ the others of the Avant Garde scene through a prolific series of collages that he sent through the post. These collages, which Johnson labelled “moticos”, created a network with thousands of fellow artists around the world, laid the foundations for Pop Art and came to be known as The New York Correspondence School. And yet despite this influential position Johnson, once considered to be”the …

As a followup to yesterday’s entry:
“Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans.”
Matt WoolmanDigital Information Graphics

From this morning’s New York Times, graphic designer Alicia Cheng’s gut-churning visual depiction of the reported 1900+ deaths in Iraq during the first month of 2007, a toll that has markedly increased from 800 in January 2006.