Mookie Blaylock Stalker

Headcases

Due to a reader's suggestion, the Sheed graphic is now available at my Cafepress page. http://www.cafepress.com/copilot

Check back for more images as the 'Headcase' series expands. Also feel free to leave comments and suggestions about who the next Headcase should be!

The Advertising Diaries

I was left with a couple hours of downtime this afternoon in 12, and I decided to work on furthering this style I have been working on. I am working on combining hand drawn elements with photography. I am also trying to find more ways of laying type out in a way that holds together better than my previous efforts. I want the text to exist as a strong element on its own, and then also fit naturally into the rest of the composition. Not quite there yet, but this was a fun exercise that I have now killed by talking about it!

Susan keeps telling me to 'keep it simple.' I have such an urge to overwork things, which invariably ends up leaving them looking muddled and mediocre. I am trying to figure out how much to pull back, and how simple I can keep things. There is a part of me that feels like if there isn't a lot of lines or business that I wasn't doing my job. As you can see in the progression today, I took out a lot of the needless lines from the first to the second version.

I want to do a series of these basketball illustrations. You know at some point I will tackle one for my main man 'Sheed!

Midnight Madness

The hoops court at the heart of Wieden + Kennedy saw an intense series of Bump games last Saturday at midnight.

The victories were spread around pretty well. And when you sprinkle in some cursing and a few dejected ball punts, you have yourself a classic evening of the schoolyard classic.

Special props are in order for Chris 'Triples' Gibson on his first ever Bump championship. (the rest of us must have been pretty damn tired for a thing like that to happen...)

I jest, for the man quickly mastered the his technique and effectively utilized the 'bump technology' in his favor, to the dismay of many a flailing competitor.

W+K Bump