Hooray for Hollywood(land)! In our first bonus episode (there was simply too much goodness to pack into our movie logo stories), we talk about the most iconic of movie icons: The Hollywood Sign.

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 discuss 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.