is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Bam! Clunk! Whap! A visual catalog of the interstitial fight-scene titles from the old “Batman” television series. Seen collected like this, they’re actually quite beautiful. According to
I just produced a movie with 9-12 year olds about the importance of getting good grades and going to college. In the film, the kids engage in a full-blown food fight. To embellish the action, I used my own “Kaplowee” (etc.) signs flying out of the screen. Huh… less tjam one week later here are the signs that inspired my integration of the same concept. Fun stuff!
These are great! I’ve been using the “Kapow!” one as a message board avatar for several months now.
If only they were just that bit bigger, they would make great desktop backgrounds