Kompakt Painting

KOMPAKT PAINTING CO.
Interior/exterior
faux finishes.

OK. Who did this? Fess up, for it is abut the funniest thing I have seen in a while (aside from Blixa's Hornbach commercials). This is a real business card I picked up today in Frentz's Hardware, it's not even a crap inkjet one-off, which the spit test has proved. I've blacked-out the phone number to protect whoever may be guilty or innocent. Granted, this would be funny were it just floating around the internets, but I have a real card! I want to see the coveralls - are there little matching dots on them too? I bet they don't listen to WRIF while at work. Classy.

What's next, Wax Trax Industrial Finishes? The M_Nus Minimal Interiors and Tea House?

This is such a beautiful trope on the post-everything generation - fifteen years ago we had bad rave compilations ripping off the Clorox logo (and every other corporate identity to be bastardized for flyers) now we have obscure minimal German techno labels infiltrating the home improvement industry. Hey, if Blixa can do it over there, why can't we have the Kompakt aesthetic here?

Just wait for Dorkwave Landscaping, where they create icons of post-punk music history in topiary, spraypaint your drywall, makeout in your mom's bed, puke on your stereo and ravage the liquor cabinet. Personally, I'd hire 'em in a second.

Awesome awesome awesome.

_{Please tell me if I'm the last one to have heard this, as it is often the case.}