visual design
Project Koko began in July 1972
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related { Who else wants a live monkey? }
Wrapping paper in the gutter, moving slowly as the wind on the sea
What does gift-wrapping do for the recipient? Is all this effort worth it for the recipient? For example, do recipients actually like gift-wrapped presents more than unwrapped gifts?
According to a study that was published 15 years ago by Daniel Howard, professor of marketing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, it appears so.
box { House Industries }
What she asked of me at the end of the day, Caligula would have blushed
Tonight I walked into the Fedex Kinkos store on Calhoun Street here in Charleston, SC to print our Christmas cards, only to have the clerk, Tammy Johnson, reject my order as obscene.
We Cringelys are known for our Christmas cards, I admit, because we make them ourselves and we’re naked.
The tradition began by accident and now our cards are so popular friends remind us to send them. Making naked Christmas cards that are tasteful isn’t easy, either, but we do it.
‘Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.’ —Fred Allen
{ Mont-Sat, Poland. Your Regional Service Antenna. Sales, service and installation of antennas TV-SAT (houses, hotels, guest houses). | Mont-Sat }
Why did summer go so quickly, was it something that I said?
photo { Elinor Carucci }
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Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two
{ Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936 | Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon, cup. | The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection | MoMA, until January 4, 2010 }