Jenny Burrows and Matt Kappler struck design gold. Their school project was to create an ad campaign for a major museum, the Smithsonian, was either assigned to them or chosen. but what followed after was nothing short of awesome. They created an engaging campaign blending the modern cultural references with their ancestral superiors.

Ozzy has a potty mouth, But how does Andrew Jackson strike you?

The campaign got so popular that the Smithsonian itself contacted Jenny. Unfortunately they are so short sighted they don’t want to be connected to the project. Read more about the nitty and the gritty here on Jenny’s blog. Not a good choice gentlemen, this could have been huge. This could have been the PG version of Baddassoftheweek (Awesome site but not for the easily offended)

My favorite piece was the Ozzy/Jackson one. There may be people among you who have a poor feeling on the Genghis Khan poster, given that most of his conquests, well were conquests and not willing. Jenny responded to that very valid criticism by saying that the posters were supposed to engender conversation, and they do that. It would be very easy to craft an exhibit to showcase the differences and the horror that Khan wrought across the world. (KHHHHHHHHHAAANNNNNN) sorry couldn’t resist

I sincerely hope that some other forward thinking educational institution takes the mantel up and runs with it. Oh the places you’ll go. If you’re interested in finding larger versions to print check Jenny’s Website for the PDF

 

 

via Historically Hardcore

Tags: 50 Cent, Andrew Jackson, beautiful, Brett Michaels, designers, Genghis Khan, hardcore history, historically hardcore, Jenny Burrows, Khan, Matt Kappler, Ozzy Osborne, posters, Teddy Roosevelt

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Janus, the Roman god most commonly found on coinage has the unique ability among that pantheon of looking both backwards and forwards. Probably the same sentiment expressed by the common idiom, “You have to know where you’ve been to know where you’re going.” It is in his honor that we offer up this episode to you. Janus is also the root word for January, see where this is headed? Of course you do! Each one of you is as smart and beautiful as they come, mainly because you listen to this show.

This show will turn 5 years old on January 9th 2011. I’ve been blogging a good deal longer than that in one form or another. The site and the idea were going to be a webcomic, but I can’t draw, and I’m not really all that funny… So I decided my two passions of geekery and coffee needed a home and the CaffiNation was born. I even delayed doing the first show a couple of months until I had a good intro music. Tonight’s show is going to look back at this past year and pull some of my favorite pieces out. While at the same time giving you a glimpse into what we are thinking for the future.

Tags: Caffination, caffination anniversary, caffination birthday, coffee hijack, cruft, janus, jeopardy, looking back on 2010, Podcamp, podcamp philly, Podcast, posters, primula, Rooibos, Starbucks, tassimo

We are running out of ideas for signage in our lab. No one reads anything. So I’m trying a new approach, propaganda inspired posters detailing the Do’s and Do Not’s of lab life.

We have Mario, a goomba, Godzilla and The Wolf Man so far.

What say you?

Tags: posters, propaganda

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A rundown of Podcamp Philly, an Owls Eye View, (Temple’s Mascot is the Owl don’t you know) A few bits of geeky news and a coffee question All in an episode’s work

Tags: Audio, blamedrewscancer, caffeine, Caffination, Coffee, drew, Mozy, pcphilly3, posters, social web, t-rex, verizon hub