Get with the winning team with graphic designer Adam J Kurtz’s (aka AdamJK) “Myself” pennant. Put the sparkly banner somewhere you’ll see it daily for a regular memo that you are the best, or give it to somebody who might need the reminder.
No matter how diverse their images or messages may be, internet memes are bound by one common thread: their font. That bold, white lettering is actually a typeface called Impact, and was released in 1965 by designer Geoff Lee. After becoming a “core font for the web” and securing a spot in Microsoft Paint, it reached international meme-dom when an explosive “I can haz cheezburger?” …
Eyebeam created a new web site at streetmemes.com to track street art, stickers, stencils, posters and visual memes (self-replicating ideas) that are posted, copied and mutated in the streets of New York and around the world. Very exciting, though I can’t help but wonder whether spelling it all out for the general public defeats the whole purpose of subversive and esoteric street art. Anyway, as …
