On March 8, 2010 my good friend, Matt Roff (Southpaw, Franklin Park Public Assembly) will open a new burger joint on Franklin Ave. in Brooklyn. The restaurant, Dutch Boy Burger, will be accessible through the main bar at Franklin Park as well as the storefront entrance on Franklin Ave. The food options are nothing less than amazing. You’re all in for a treat. I’ve had the honor of working on his menu designs and some other pieces of collateral and we’re printing these today. I thought I’d give a little peak. We’re hitting them with the sometimes nasty, but in this case vintagey-lookin’ Copperplate Gothic and the utilitarian master font Futura. I can’t wait to see these printed and dripping with burger grease. Congrats to Matty who is just one of those guys who gets things done. This looks destined to be another huge success.

New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and I just finished up the poster for the New Year’s Eve bash at Franklin Park. You’ve got some leaf clusters thinking they’re fireworks up in the sky of this poster and everything else is just as it seems. Happy early New Year – is this decade really over?

I found this flyer on Dropular. The line-up is mind-blowing. The Smiths, Chameleons, Kurtis Blow…amazing. In college my friend Clint and I hosted a British music show called The Haciena on the powerhouse known as KWVA. Made me happy to see this today and made me miss listening to music as much as I used to. At some point, I just stopped charging my iPod before leaving the house.

I was reading on idsgn that IKEA changed their font from Futura to Verdana for their new catalogs. Like many web designers we use a lot of Verdana for website, but for print it doesn’t really do it for me. Jason Kottke had a link to an old IKEA from 1965 which is worth checking out. You can see all the old IKEA pics here.