Almost Famous

So, a while ago, UnderConsideration posed a question: why do you sketch logos. They allowed users to respond at the Brand New blog website or on Twitter using the hashtag #whyisketchlogos. Well, I decided to put in something... amusing: " The reason #whyisketchlogos is because it would be really awkward to spend hours illustrating it to see that it looked like genitals."

It seems like a fairly common occurence (read: it happens to all designers) that you take a lot of pride in something you've done only to find out from a colleague that it looks like a phallus. It seemed like a really good reason, and I guess they agreed. It seems that the purpose of the question was to produce a new product, and my quote was one of the ones chosen. I've now been temporarily immortilized in the pages of the awesome, brand new Brand New logo sketching book:

It's a pretty stellar book at that. Pocket-sized. Wonderfully textural covering. Smooth pages. Nice typography. This is one of those extremely rare places where design and life meet in a very awesome way.