Easy Abs at Dylan's Candy Bar

Dylan's Candy Bar is a two floor candy store in uptown New York. It is full of all kinds of candy and other accessories for people who love candy but more specifically for sugar-loving kids. I passed by the shop this weekend, as I am one of those candy-loving people, and was surprised to find a whole section on low fat candy. At first I didn't read the sign above which indicated that it was low fat candy and I was immediately drawn to this magazine cover. I found it funny how in a children prone environment they would draw attention to watching ones weight. I also found it interesting how they decided to advertise this through a magazine cover, which may encourage little kids to read into these magazines and start worrying about the unnecessary obsession with being skinny and beautiful. Being a candy store mainly directed towards children between the ages of 6-14, communicating "healthy" topics should be addressed differently.

Sombrero

Snowday today! Excellent time for a catchup on what the art and design community around the world has to offer. And so I came across a new breed of typeface - the Sombrero.

This typeface is created by El Grand Chamaco, an illustrator born in Los Ramones who spent his childhood afternoons playing with crayons and snacking on dried beef and lemonsauce. Little did he know all this would eventually shape him as the designer he is today.

Notice how the individual letters are disproportional in reference to the golden ratio (1: 1.618) that characterizes most 'timeless' typefaces such as Ariel, Georgia, Helvettica. The 'L's are sickly skinny, the 'O' and 'D's are bloated to an extreme and the rest of them, like the 'A's - look big-headed and shrunken at the bottom. Comical - but with an elegant and beautiful twist no?

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Not that this is an attempt to, you know, lead you away from this one.

One Way, Wrong Way

I took this photograph during a vacation with my family to Puerto Rico this summer. The plane landed on a small military base in Aguadilla and as we were leaving the parking lot, I just so happened to see this sign. The "one way" sign was placed upside down which is ironic because if any other sign were to be flipped around it wouldn't necessarily matter. This sign on the other hand, was directing every vehicle the wrong way as they left the parking lot!