This design link is near and dear to my heart – The Boston Red Sox recently updated their team identity and uniforms. Overall, I think it’s a positive evolution, though seems a bit nostolgic. I love the gray primary road jerseys.
Armin Vit mostly likes what he sees:
Replacing the old seal as the team’s official logo is the lone pair of red, hanging sox. Unless I’m wrong, there is no typography associated with it. None. No “Boston.” No “Red Sox.” If that’s the case, this is one of the best cases of visual identity and brand equity becoming so strong the icon doesn’t need explanation. They are sox. They are red. They can not be anything other than the Boston Red Sox.
Illustration courtesy of Boston.com
Shepard Fairey’s cover for TIME.
Time.com has a nice video interview with Shepard Fairey, designer of the HOPE and PROGRESS posters of Barack Obama that were nearly ubiquitous during the ’08 presidential campaign. Time Magazine named the President-Elect Person of the Year 2008, so it seemed only natural to hire Fairey to do the cover.
In the video, he shows the process used to create the piece – techniques learned from his days as a screen printer.
Via Sean
Blur to Re-Form for Massive Hyde Park Gig »
It ended in acrimony, with the guitarist branding the singer an “egomaniac”. But after months of speculation, Blur have confirmed that they will be reuniting for a massive gig in London’s Hyde Park next summer.
My favorite band of the 90s, together again for the first time since guitarist Graham Coxon quit the band in 2002.
More: Blur In Video » | Review of Graham Coxon Solo Show in 2005 »
Love Is All performing at the Bowery Ballroom, in Manhattan.
It was not as legendary as their first show at the Knitting Factory, or the sweat-dripped set at Market Hotel in Bushwick this past summer, but Love Is All still knows how to bring it. They played a mix of songs from the new album A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night as well as from their debut, and even mixed in their Flock of Seagulls cover.
UPDATE: My Photos on Flickr » | NYCTaper’s Audio From the Show
