Since the invention of the CFL, the old incandescent is now obsolete…so is the universal symbol of an idea obsolete too? Graphically, a CFL just isn’t doing it for me…there was something pure about the simple old light bulb.
Happy Friday everyone. What a great week! The illustrations have really come together for me this week. Thanks again for your comments.
I still like to use the old fashioned light bulb as a reference for great ideas. Remember all of the cartoons with people and the light bulb above their head. Classic!
You remind me of Arsenio Hall when he used to say those “things that make you go hmmmm.” I like your idea here (was there a light bulb floating above your head when you thought of it?!) But I agree with Sherie Howell’s comment – the symbol is a classic one. Even my kids know what that means when they see it.
and one should not forget the umpteen hundreds of “how many ________ does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” I once did a lamp project for a charity auction where i searched and found well 500 of these jokes – i forget how many…however so many were bit over the top – i chose not to censor as a anthropological display – This lightbulb Prop, obect, image is just so universal – that it hard to divorce it from its cliche – nice illustration
also the pencil like background images kind of remind me of the collisions between molecules and their byproducts made in a super collider – unintentional – but very physically apparent – again I like this image