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If you work in an ad agency or design house, chances are you’re surrounded by strange and mysterious people with confusing job titles and strange habits of speech and dress. This guide will help you understand the people that you meet each day.

Great photography can change the world. But who cares? These photographic guilty pleasures will make you laugh, make you gag and even turn you on. And let's just admit it; we all look, and then hate ourselves in the morning.

This week's selection of propaganda parodies is a real hodgepodge, mixing German Luftwaffels, French defeatism, homo-erotic sailors and a whole lot of general shenanigans.

From flash intros, to logo theft, to information overload, clients often ask a design team to do a lot of stuff that’s just plain wrong. Here are 7 of the most common mistakes clients might ask you to make -- and how to talk some sense into them.

If you’re looking to romance a graphic designer, we can help. Here are some ice-breakers cheesier than Cheez Whiz guaranteed to help you find someone to love, to hold and to go halfers on a new copy of Photoshop CS4 with you.

It's all about sticking it to The Man this week, as we have a look at how professional and amateur artists alike use propaganda elements in their attacks on the powers that be. Not exciting enough? How does Kim Jong-Il in an Adidas track suit or Richard Nixon bowling sound then?

If you’re a designer, you’ve probably had to deal with lots of annoying client feedback throughout your career. Let’s face it, a lot of clients have no idea what good work looks like. In fact, I reckon that if the average client was presented with classics of Western art, they’d probably still try to offer up some constructive criticism. And it might look something like this...

Glaring racism, violence, murder, misogynism and a lot of smoke - In this post, we have a look at various forms of "politically incorrect" advertising and propaganda from the late 1800's up until the present. The material of our present days might not be as overt as it used to, but it's still about in droves, and sometimes with an even fouler smell to it.

In this post, we're taking a look at the cover designs of 42 album cover designs from reggae and related genres. See how Scientist rid the World of the evil curse of the Vampires, say hello to Uglyman, and learn why the colours red, gold and green are so central in reggae and Rastafari culture.

With Christmas closing in, we proudly present a selection of this year's oddest, most bizarre and ridiculous gifts and gadgets for Christmas, Chanuka, Kwanzaa, Festivus or your own.