Image of the Day: The End of an Era

After 31 year at Penn State, Ron Wance cleans the press for the final time.

Image of the Day: The Penn State Mark Super-sized!

Spotted in our warehouse on campus; just one part of a multi-paneled
display of a super-sized Penn State Mark. 

Image of the Day: Three Wrongs Does Not Make a Right

Oh dear, call the Mark Police . . . again.

There, that fixes it!

Images of the Day: There Must Be 50 Ways to Leave Your Mark

The problem is all inside your head
She said to me
The answer is easy if you
Take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle
To be free of the Mark
There must be fifty ways
To use the Mark correctly

She said it grieves me so

To see you in such pain

I wish there was something I could do

To make you smile again

I said I appreciate that

And would you please explain

About the fifty ways

To use the Mark correctly

Apologies to Paul Simon

Image of the Day: HazMat Nittany Lion

Spotted at Surplus and Salvage on the Penn State University Park campus.

Image of the Day: Officina Typographica Constellation

My homage to Officina Typographica also known as Atelier Typographique.

"Oh Dear, I Forgot to Call the Penn State Mark Police!"

I just received my new on-campus parking pass . . .
that uses the incorrect reverse version of the (old) Penn State Mark.
The parking pass is good through June 30, 2018.
(sigh)

Image of the Day: The Mark Police's Favorite Pen

"No! No! A thousand times no! You cannot use the same Mark that you did on the white pens we ordered last year and simply reverse the artwork."

Spotted at Happy Valley Brewing Company. . . 

Image of the Day: Mark Police

"No, you cannot flip the Paw Mark; the one on the left isn't even the correct version. These are owned and licensed by The Pennsylvania State University, and you cannot 'recreate' them, even poorly. Oh, Giant..."

Image of the Day: Parking Lot Litter

Spotted in the parking lot on my way to lunch.

Images of the Day: Mark Police

Jobs for the tireless Mark Police!

Yes, this version of the Mark is licensed!

Welcome to My Desktop, Mac Pro

We'll be phasing out the Mac Pro Towers at work for the newly designed versions over the next several weeks. Of special note, the Apple decals are in matte black! I'll post an updated images of my desktop when we get the dual monitors set-up. 

"This Looks Like a Job for the Penn State Mark Police!"

Penn State Creamery Gift Card

Burger King

IST Building

IST Building

Giant Food

Giant Food

Images of the Day: Raising of the Chipmunk

Weighing in at weighs 6500 pounds, the Chipmunk logo is  ~35 feet by 25 feet.

Images of the Day: Snow Pack

On the Penn State University Park campus, remnants of our brutal winter. Photos taken this morning at 6:20 a.m. 

At their peak, the piles were over one-story tall,  and were created from plowing and dumping snow off of the upper levels of the parking deck. They are on the northern side of the deck.

Image of the Day: Cattails at Katz

SORM

After 34 years, the offset press Heidelberg SORM at Penn State Multimedia & Print Center was retired. Acquired on May 14, 1979, she was a single color press, and had made 83,755,238 impressions by June 19th, 2013. The last job run was a publication for the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) held at Penn State. If you look closely on some of the photos, you can see one of the plates for that job was still hung on the press.

We salvaged some parts to use on our Heidelberg Z-press, and what remained was taken to Lion Surplus, Penn State’s surplus and salvage, to be sold.

Below are some photos I took while she was waiting quietly amid the busy sounds of the other presses and bindery equipment.