Episodes

Today we’re back with even more sound bites from our first season. This is your six foot party sub of an episode, so grab a speaker and bring a healthy appetite.

Today we’re providing some hot and ready sound bites from our first season. This is your Everything sheet pizza to satisfy a larger appetite, so pack earbuds and bring a bib. Toppings include MAD Magazine, KISS and the 200th birthday party of the United States, posters for rural electrification and a little hope courtesy of Barack Obama and Shepard Fairey, Reddy Kilowatt and Big Boy, street culture in the form of a blue screaming hand and a character named Ratfink, and a bunch of unsung logos fo...

Hey, Vern. In this episode we discuss how artwork advertising cigars became a cornerstone for kitsch and a character promoting local businesses became a movie star. What is the deal with dogs playing poker, anyway? And how did Ernest P. Worrell go from plugging local car lots in Nashville to saving Christmas in movie theaters across the country? We answer these questions and introduce you to what may be the coolest artist name in history. - - - - - Visit our full episode page for show notes, t...

In this episode, we talk product parody with the trading card collections Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids.

In this episode we talk about iconic roadside signs from Union 76, Holiday Inn, and where they can be found today.

Ever wonder why a tire company is most known for a blimp? Or why an animation studio has a desk lamp as its trademark? We did. Turns out Goodyear and Pixar didn’t invent either of these things. Learn the origin stories of Goodyear’s blimps, Pixar’s loveable Luxo lamp, and how these adopted objects transcended their initial utility to become known around the world. - - - - - Visit our full episode page for show notes, the visual examples we discuss, additional links and more! https://www.twode...

Hooray for Hollywood(land)! In our first bonus episode (there was simply too much goodness to pack into our movie logo stories), we wrap-up our logo conversation and Todd shares a trivia nugget about Ghostbusters and goes deeper on The Rocketeer. We then shift into talking about the most iconic of movie icons: The Hollywood Sign. - - - - - Visit our full episode page for show notes, the visual examples we discuss, additional links and more! https://www.twodesignerswalkintoabar.com/episodes/ep...

Today we’re telling the stories of the logos for the movies Ghostbusters and The Rocketeer. Proton pack, rocket pack... Doesn’t matter to us as long as your gear includes quality headphones.

Today we’re talking about a couple of sweet typefaces — Hobo and Cooper Black — and why you see them everywhere on pop culture touchstones.

Today we talk logos from lesser-known companies we’ve stumbled upon that include a coffee drinking lion, a few black cats, a grasshopper, a penguin and a voodoo priest.

For this episode, we’re talking illustration and rebellion: Ed “Big Daddy” Roth and his famous creation Rat Fink and Jim Phillips and his equally famous Screaming Hand.

We examine how Reddy Kilowatt humanized electricity, Big Boy became a culinary icon, and both rose from humble beginnings to popularity stretching from coast-to-coast and across generations.

We examine how Lester Beall and Shepard Fairey used the art of the poster to make the big ideas of bringing electricity to rural parts of the United States and inspiring a nation to rally behind an unknown presidential candidate named Barack Obama easy to understand.

In 1976, our nation turned 200, KISS released “Rock and Roll Over” with Michael Doret’s amazing album art and the timeless bicentennial star logo from designer Bruce Blackburn was everywhere from postage stamps to NASA equipment.

In our first episode, we discuss our humble beginnings including a conversation about illustrator Mort Drucker, meeting William Shatner, why MAD Magazine and the movie Airplane! are important parts of our creative sensibilities, and how our show got its name.