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Hey, I don't want to sh%t where I eat, but several hundred million seems a little steep even to me. Kudos to the Arnell group for landing the con job (Ahem) account. They undoubtedly have a very big thesaurus that has lot's of variations for words like "movement", "action" and "heritage". In their defense, they did make this cute video about the process of redrawing the Pepsi stripe (originally swiped from Coca Cola) and choosing a more contemporary typeface. Read more about conning hapless corporations with bullshit design speak over at Gawker.
David Margolick wrote a wonderful piece on political illustrator David Levine for Vanity Fair. Unfortunately the numbskull who optimized the images for the corresponding slideshow F-ed up several of the pieces (Naked Kissinger, Lincoln, and seated Nixon) which is a real shame considering the article speaks about Mr. Levine's declining eyesight and people who are unfamiliar with his work will most likely attribute the screwed up portraits to Levine.
"For four decades, David Levine’s acid-tipped portraits of everyone from Castro to Cheney gave The New York Review of Books its visual punch. Now that the greatest caricaturist of the late 20th century is going blind, is he owed more than a fond farewell?"
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