05 May 2011
The original Celtics mascot right here: a paper maché leprechaun in Arnold “Red” Auerbach’s office. How cool is that? It just sold in an online auction for $10,278! It’s super weird (and there’s no way I could ever some up with that sort of ca$h), but I do wish it was sitting in my office.
Original tip from Ball Don’t Lie. Also, check out some of the other vintage memorabilia (Bob Cousy’s pit-stained jersey anyone?) and how much it went for (over $41K!) here on Red’s online auction. See front and back full size shots and an in-setting in Red’s office after the jump. GO CELTICS!
19 April 2011
This is a mark/a collage of marks that I was working on for a friend’s project. This friend, Travis Pitcher, is an incredible film-maker and I’ve featured some of his work on here before. I can’t wait to have more excuses/opportunities to work with him again.
06 July 2009
Recently Shepard Fairey released his “FREEDOM TO LEAD” poster of Aung San Suu Kyi. His work is, as always, extraordinary and charged with tones of revolution and it’s great to see him helping out another great political cause—one that needs all the publicity it can garner.
A couple years ago, the US Campaign for Burma asked me to create a logo for them to commemorate her birthday and to try to raise awareness of Suu Kyi’s situation. I don’t know to what extent it was used (beyond a shirt and some patches that are pictured below)—although I did see a picture of a wall in Thailand tiled with wheat-pasted posters of it not long after I finished it.
The brief was two-colors max and simplified and iconic enough to be reproduced at small sizes. We tried to capture both her determined strength and her soft, motherly side. There was no budget, so the type had to be created by hand, as well. Anyways, not to compare mine vs. his, but… here’s mine, and (obviously) above is his.
