Design Brief: Skelly the Skeleton and Finding Whimsy in the Macabre
Ok you ghouls in goblins, on this week of Halloween we are casting a spell in honor of the season’s silliest and perhaps most viral decoration. That’s right. It’s the Home Depot 12-foot skeleton also known as Skelly. In this episode, we explore our deeply human fascination with death, the macabre, and how we see motifs of mortality make their way into our modern design lexicon. So, tear open some candy and sit back for this wicked treat.
Things We Referenced
Home Depot 12’ Skelly Skeleton
Memento Mori Motif
Vanitas Paintings
Dance of Death, leaf from "The Nuremberg Chronicle"
An Oral History…
The skinny
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