Dept of Blanket Security

Ridge Rooms, who did a lot of design work on various Peanuts products that have come out over the past few years (although she – yes, Ridge Rooms is a she – is no longer working on Peanuts material) has a portfolio site which includes material I had not seen before, for a “Department of Blanket Security” campaign linked to the Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown DVD release. You can see those designs here (as well as Blanket Security video toward the bottom of the page.) I think they look rather keen.

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Peanuts Origami

A recent addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is スヌーピー折り紙, a book of Peanuts origami projects. However, achieving hte results they show takes more than folding and connecting pieces of paper, as they want you to add faces and other markings to the pieces, which means you’ll have channel your …

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A thing that might have been

In 1958, the vocal jazz/pop band The Hi-Lo’s were riding high. Having released their first album in 1954, they were already working on their eighth… and they wanted to name it after a Peanuts book. As the Washington D.C. newspaper The Sunday Star reported, they were floating the idea of …

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Charles’s Angel

In 1961, Charles Schulz designed a promotional character for the United Fund (i.e., the group that is now called United Way.) He gets named “Little Angel”… or, depending on the press release, “Little Good Guy”. The character appears in promotions for a few years. The reworks of him, which are …