The “knotted pencil” was one of Gene Federico’s favorite graphic design creations from his eight year time spent working at IBM in the 1960s. Designed in 1962, it was unlike the work he was most known for, as this work does not contain any form of text or visual pun. It was meant to represent…
“Going Out” is certainly Federico’s most popular work of graphic design. Designed by Federico for the “Women’s Day” magazine in 1953, this work is a prime example of his ability to create visual puns from the combination of typeface and images, using the two wheels of the bicycle as the ‘o’s in the “Go Out”…
Gene Federico was a 20th century American graphic designer, born on February 6th, 1918 in Greenwich Village, New York. He began designing advertisement posters from a relatively young age while still being in grade school. He and his family moved to Coney Island shortly before enrolling in Abraham Lincoln High School, a school which was…
Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 Marvel superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and a sequel to Spider-Man (2002), continuing the story of college student Peter Parker and his double life as New York’s latest and greatest superhero, Spider-Man. The opening title sequence notably features a slideshow of dozens of awe-inspiring paintings by well-known Marvel comic…
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the largest open world video games ever published on a Nintendo platform, with a map that is roughly over six miles wide and four miles tall. As such, a good navigational system is a necessity when it comes to traversing this vast world. Unlike…