Face Off, a new Syfy series, immediately caught my attention. I have been amazed, ever since I was a child, with the transforming capability of movie make-up. Syfy gives you the focus of the show in this quote,”Face Off is a competition/elimination series exploring the world of special-effects make-up artists and the unlimited imagination that [...]

While working on our client ADC’s website, I ran across this interesting logo for the 2011 Meat Conference. I recognized the typeface (Rosewood) used in this identity – however, upon further inspection I realized the detailing had been transformed into the more appropriate image of a fork! I thought, “How clever!” This has inspired me [...]

The other night I had the TV on but wasn’t really paying attention – until this commercial came on. The ad campaign for Dead Space 2 is quite possibly ingenious. Personally, I am not a big fan of video games but this commercial stopped me in my tracks and had me laughing. The ad successfully [...]

This was one of Good Dog/Bad Dog Creative Design’s (GDBD Design) favorite projects. Located in Ruskin, Backyard Produce was a produce stand aimed at providing customers with the freshest, best tasting fruits and vegetables. They were formed to celebrate the diversity of foods that are produced here in the Tampa Bay area. GDBD helped them [...]

I like hamburgers… I love to watch Top Chef… and creative website designs makes me happy…. So I “flipped” when I discovered the website of Atlanta based restaurant, Flip Burger. Top Chef runner up, and Flip Burger creative director, Richard Blais has found a way to create delicious, untraditional/modern, hamburgers, while bold colors and playful [...]

I’ve seen a lot of daily questions posted on facebook and twitter pages, but I love the way Etsy’s question of the day is unique. Instead of typing out the question, someone on the Etsy staff writes it on a quotation shaped chalkboard and posts the photo. Now that’s thinking outside of… the bubble.

When I found this photo, it all clicked. Good typography is invisible to the untrained eye however bad typography is an eye sore. Aside from designers and others in the field, most people do not take notice of typography, unless they see something wrong with it. It is a shame good typography is not more [...]

Happy New Year! We hope all of you had a great holiday season and a prosperous start to the new year. At Good Dog/Bad Dog we’ve started the new year off right by adding a new “designer” to our dog pound – Stefanie Pilcher. You may have seen her blog posts in the last few months [...]

While in Miami, I kept passing a building surrounded by life size cutouts of the Storm Trooper characters from “Star Wars”, I had to see what it was all about. Inside was an array of pop culture and graffiti style art, along with a few animals made from tires – a kangaroo, elephants (featured above) [...]