It takes a while for the trend of ballpoint-pen illustration that was talked about on design blogs 18 months ago to trickle its way into “the mainstream,” to the extent anything Dave Eggers and his wife with the name one cannot take seriously (Coldplay album title? “hasta la Vida”?) actually are mainstream. And of course Juno authorized it, and now it’s everywhere. I fear Steven Heller will have colonized and assimilated this trend under the catchphrase “cult of the squiggly.”
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2009.06.19 13:30. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: http://blog.fawny.org/2009/06/19/squiggles/
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