PalisDesign

06/04/2026

Bus wrap for the Taubman Museum.

05/14/2026

Graduation day, Portland School of Art. The man by the podium, the great Ivan Chermayeff.

05/14/2026

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Psychedelic Japanese posters

05/14/2026

05/12/2026

Designers’ Think - Bu****it Sells Here is the ugly truth: Many designers are easy to take advantage of. Not because they are stupid. Not because they are weak. But because they are too honest for a game that often rewards bu****it. Designers do more than “make things look nice.” We put our min...

04/23/2026

“A logo doesn’t need to say what it does.”
- Paul Rand

If it tries, it becomes literal, dated, and brittle.

Hard truth: If you’re explaining the business inside the mark, you’re compensating for weak identity thinking.

04/20/2026

An Oldie from the 80s. Poster for a Karate competition sponsored by Caracas 750.

04/18/2026

Did you know that the words "stereotype" and "cliché" originated in old printing practices?

The word "cliché" is a French term dating to around 1825, meaning "to produce or print in stereotype." A stereotype was a printing plate used to create many versions of the same design. Printers heard a "clicking" sound during this process, which gave birth to the onomatopoeic word "cliché."

Cliché - the sound made when using a stereotype.

The term "stereotype" was first used in the printing trade in 1798 to describe a printing plate that duplicated typography. The duplicate plate, or the stereotype, was used instead of the original for printing.

By the end of the 19th century, the word "cliché" started to take on the meaning we know today. The word evolved from describing the process of repeating printed designs to describing repetitive and overused phrases or ideas.

Outside of printing, the first reference to the word "stereotype" in English was in 1850, as a noun meaning "image perpetuated without change." The word was first used in the modern psychological sense in 1922 by American journalist Walter Lippmann in his work 'Public Opinion.'

Note: the photo shows a stereotype mold ("flong") being made.