The Big Caption

Noted on kottke.org, The Big Caption is an irreverent companion to The Boston Globe’s Big Picture website. Essentially, it takes some often fairly serious news photography and slaps some comedic type right over the top

By

Original image, here

Noted on kottke.org, The Big Caption is an irreverent companion to The Boston Globe’s Big Picture website. Essentially, it takes some often fairly serious news photography and slaps some comedic type right over the top…

Seemingly the brainchild of one Ian Collins, The Big Caption is updated sporadically with an array of stories and an equally wide range of fontage. Here are some recent posts, with the ongoing blog at thebigcaption.com.

Original image, here

Original image, here

Original image, here

CR Recommends

More from CR

Welcome to Dalston-on-Strand

Pick Me Up, London’s new graphic art fair, was a hands-on, inky-fingered success, reckons James Pallister, but will it have a lasting impact?

Jon Burgerman’s Inkstrumental iPhone app

ustwo – the app developer that gave us Mouth Off and also the Granimator iPad app – has just released Inkstrumental, the interactive fruit of a collaboration with illustrator Jon Burgerman…

Creative Review presents Joining Forces

The images produced by in-demand imagemakers (including James Joyce, Emily Forgot and Seb Lester) in collaboration with leading CGI studios, for our Joining Forces feature in the current (June) issue are now on show at the Concrete Hermit gallery in London’s Shoreditch

Claridge’s rebrand

London design studio Construct has given the branding of London’s famous Claridge’s hotel a thorough overhaul, starting with the hotel’s crest which has been redrawn and the logotype which has also been redrawn using a refined weight of typeface SangBleu…

Jobs

View more

Graphic Designer

Fushi Wellbeing

Creative Designer

Monddi Design Agency

Make the most of CR