Author Archives: Denny Schmickle

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Victims of the Image

Steven Heller has created a powerful and compelling presentation on racism in advertising and design called Victims of the Image: Ethnic and Racial Stereotyping in American Popular Art. I regularly show it to my History of Graphic Design classes, and I feel it is something any American consumer should see. We are very used to some [...]

Design Finds

I spent a couple hours in Garders Books in Tulsa last Friday looking at book jackets. I bought an armload of these, but couldn’t take home all the books I wanted. I found the best covers in the science section, a few keepers in philosophy, including a Paul Rand cover for The Modern Temper, and [...]

Design III Students…

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Torche & Big Business

I was really thrilled to make a poster for two of my favorite bands in the world: Torche & Big Business. I wanted it to be intense, the way their music is intense. I also wanted it to be unique to screen-printing. I had wanted to do a bunch of stuff that ended up  not [...]

Get these mobile wallpapers!

Hey. I’m uploading a bunch of iPhone/iPod wallpapers for peoples. Get ‘em while they’re hot! Visit this site with your mobile device, tap & hold to download the images, and then go to your photo library and choose to set as your wallpaper. They work best as lock-screen wallpaper, but do as you please.  

Happy Mothers Day!

Public Arts Project 66

HEY! Get over to kickstarter and help fund this awesome project featuring the work of Oklahoma artist Rick Sinnett.

I’m headed to Texas…

I can’t believe Kate and I are going to have a show at West Texas A&M with our pal Marcus. This poster that He and his crew made for us is INTENSE…

Epic Collisions: Nov 26th / 6–8PM / Dwelling Spaces