Like the real super-consumers they entertain everyday, the titular family on the animated comedy The Simpsons have torn through all kinds of unnatural and ill-conceived products over the years, from mysterious meat substitutes to bizarre beers. Guyism shops around for The 14 Awesomest Fake Products from The Simpsons, like Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel and Strawberrito. [...]

We like that new technology is bringing the rest of the world up to European advertising standards, which go with the “If it’s pretty it doesn’t need to make sense” principle. Increasingly, commercials for products big and small, from every corner of the planet, are doing simple concepts with slick visual style, like those in [...]

We have no problem admitting that we’re big typography nerds. We can’t help it, we’re hopeless addicts and suckers for original and creative fonts, especially ones that are made from real world objects. As it happens, Reuben Miller’s listicle of 22 Really Creative Alphabets is full of such typefaces, our favorite of which is Jonathan [...]

We’re still working on a Halloween costume (yes, we always push this to the last minute), but we’re thinking the best way to go about the decision might be to see what the experts wear. By experts, of course, we mean people who wear costumes every day: superheroes.
As it happens, ComicsAlliance has just the listicle [...]

Traditionally (meaning before WWI) ghosts were pretty much the scariest creatures humanity had invented, what with all the floating, ominous chanting, curtain-rustling and door-creaking. Over the last century we’ve proved that we’re actually the scariest things on the planet, and now ghosts are played for comedy more often than straight scares. Holytaco’s listicle of 25 [...]

As the conventional wisdom would have it, everything is for sale, so it should be no surprise that one of the most common graphic treatments we encounter is the barcode, the pattern of vertical black lines that tells us how much we owe the man. Of course, the barcode’s symbolic analogy to capitalism makes it [...]

More than any other person in the world, Helvetica Man–a fixture of signs and signals all across the globe–gets himself into all kinds of mad-cap adventures and strange, often dangerous situations. Surely you’ve seen him going through emergency exits, queuing behind red lines and crossing streets, but odds are you’ve never seen all of Fubiz’s [...]

We claimed we were going to hold off on Halloween-related posts, but with just over a week to go that seems pretty pointless now. Plus, today’s Halloween listicle is really clever and creative, and may have helped us find our costume for this year. Graphic designer Charlene Chua has made a series greeting cards depicting [...]

Don’t let the relatively small regional audiences and occasionally mundane stories get you fooled, local news is a high-pressure media arena, and in many ways the lack of major funding forces reporters to go beyond their normal comfort zones more often. Two recent listicles explored the various failures of these overworked and underpaid professionals, mental_floss [...]

On this date in 1962, the seminal Halloween hit “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Because this was way back in the day before real music videos, however, no official visual accompaniment for the song exists. This has allowed innumerable artists to [...]