Michael King
When I was but a boy
This is a picture of me taken around 1955 and posted on my Facebook wall by a brother who has yet to have the favor returned. I can date the picture with some accuracy Because the tail fins in the bottom right of the picture are from my father’s 1955 Plymouth. The car behind me [...]
Promotional Item from 1893
Some things never change. Merchants give out promotional items. Here is one from 1893, an early example of “co-branding,” where the E. P. Best Manfacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut supplied merchants, in this case the H. Frank Company of Ballston Spa and Mechanicville, New York, with small notebooks to hand out to its customers. [...]
If you remember this, you must be a Denver native!
I found this flyer in a used book. How many anachronisms can you spot? I count at least four.
Joyce Cary’s neglected masterpiece and Milton Glaser – the true story
Nothing lurid will be disclosed here. I simply wanted to get your attention. Below is the cover Glaser designed for the Anglo-Irish novelist Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth, which is one of the great novels of the 20th century and now unjustly neglected. A minor incentive to read the novel is the film based on [...]
A Book by Its Cover
I am a fan of the British author Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks mysteries and have read some 17 of the 20 of them in print. Because I usually buy used paperbacks, I happened to notice a significant difference in the cover theme used in the UK publications and those in the US. In the image [...]
New Digital Art Work
New items are now available from my Periwinkle Suite studies. Because the items are captured in a vector art digital file, they may be printed at any size as long as that size multiplies the files’ basic dimensions. All files are printed on Hannemuhle Fine Art Digital paper. Hannemuhle describes the paper as “Natural white 100% [...]
Fold Factory
If you don’t know about foldfactoryactory.com, the business brain-child of Trish Witkowski, you should. Every week, Trish posts a “60-second” video explaining a unique graphic piece that uses a clever folding processs to draw attention to itself. And she does this wearing a tee-shirt that features a different fold-related saying! [Her industry puts me to [...]
To correct or to remain silent?
A follow-up: First, I am red-faced. Having pointed out someone’s grammatical error, I need to admit that the name of the studio is not “Focus,” it is “Manual.” The link was right, some small consolation I suppose, but what a goof! Second, I received a nice note from Manual, thanking me for pointing out the [...]
Can the announcer “Welcome” me?
Today on KVOD, after a change of announcers, the new host said “Welcome to Colorado Public Radio.” As I drove along, I wondered why I was being welcomed when I had been there all along and the host [you know who you are and I'm not giving out any hints!] was the arrival. This shows [...]
On the Rear Window of a Mini Cooper
Yesterday I pulled up alongside a Mini Cooper. In the bottom left hand corner of the hatch window was text. As I looked closer, I could see that the text said, “Actual Size.” LOL as the texters would say.
