An Adventure of Cosmic Proportions

My name is Mark Brinker and I live in Los Angeles. Now we're all on the same page. I'm starting this blog mostly to post the ridiculous artwork I end up making for my job as a graphic designer on commercials.

So I was working on this Ikea commercial, and after a 12 hour day my boss told me he needed more set dressings for the next day's shoot, specifically rock band posters and "Star Wars-type posters."



So this was my first attempt. I printed it out and my boss said "Absolutely not." He said "I'm looking for something with like Yoda on it. Something more along the lines of... you know. Like Yoda."

A part of my job is making sure that all artwork used on the walls of the set is cleared, so that George Lucas doesn't see Yoda in the background when he's watching an Ikea commercial and sue Ikea and the production company and my boss and me. And rolling into the fifteenth hour now, I couldn't think what was similar to Yoda but royalty free. Until I had this epiphany: Yoda's basically just an old man with green skin and crazy ears. I'll just do that. I can make my own Yoda!



I showed this to my boss. He said "You know what? Fuck it. I think let's call it a night," and then, sort of under his breath, "Looks like fuckin Ghandi with Elf Ears."
So the moral of the story is once again Yoda has helped me get to sleep. Thanks for reading.