The official trailer for a new documentary film about street photographer Vivian Maier:
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Published February 18, 2013
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Published February 14, 2013
Illustration on Off Book
Illustrators Steven Guarnaccia, Yuko Shimisu, Sean Murphy and Molly Crabapple talk about their work on the latest episode of PBS Off Book:
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Published November 9, 2012
Retromedia
Digital formats are really convenient, but they are easily forgotten as well. If you ask anyone what was their first vinyl they bought they’ll probably remember that, but I don’t think a lot of people will remember what was their first mp3 download.
When you play a vinyl record it demands your attention and this is a way to connect to the music. You have to take it out, you have to put it on the turntable, you have to put the needle on… These are all actions that demand attention from you and then you have to keep your attention and wait until the side is done and then you have to flip the record…
Photographer Eilon Paz, Dust and Grooves
A new short documentary from PBS Off Book on the attraction of physical formats in the digital age:
Eilon Paz successfully raised funding for a Dust and Grooves book with Kickstarter early this year.
See more of Eilon’s photos here.
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Published August 17, 2012
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island, directed by Jake Gorst and supported by Design Onscreen, explores the work of the region’s notable postwar architects and designers, including Albert Frey, Wallace Harrison, Herbert Beckhard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horace Gifford, Edward Durrell Stone, Marcel Breuer, Andrew Geller, Philip Johnson, Charles Gwathmey, Barbara and Julian Neski, and others. The film features interviews with architects and historians, as well as friends, families and clients of these influential designers:
ArchDaily has more on the film and the modern architecture of Long Island.
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Published April 18, 2012
The Art of Film & TV Title Design | Off Book
The new episode of PBS Arts documentary series Off Book takes a look at the art of the title sequence. The designers of the titles for Blue Valentine, Mad Men, The Pacific, Se7en, and Zombieland discuss their work, and there’s a lovely bit at the end when they all talk about the influence of the mighty Saul Bass:
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Published March 28, 2012
The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project | Off Book
The latest installment of the PBS short documentary series Off Book looks at how interconnectivity is changing the funding and sharing of creative projects:
Published March 1, 2012
Practice and Space: Jay Ryan
The talented Jay Ryan, owner of The Bird Machine screen print poster workshop, interviewed as part of a series of short films about craftspeople in the Chicago area called Practice and Space:
You can see more of Jay Ryan’s posters in two books collecting his work published by Akashic Books: 100 Squirrels, 134 Posters and Animals and Objects In and Out of Water
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Published February 29, 2012
Minka
Minka is an award-winning documentary short based on John Roderick’s memoir about the traditional hand-built farmhouse he acquired 1967 while working for the Associated Press in Japan. Filmed just following Roderick’s death at 93, the film interviews architect Yoshihiro Takishita, Roderick’s adopted son who worked on the house, and explores themes of place, memory, architecture, and home. Beautiful:
Published January 13, 2012
The Evolution of Music Online | Off Book
Related to the previous, the latest PBS Arts Off Book documentary short is about the massive changes that have occurred in the music industry in the last twenty years as a result of new technology and the Internet:
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Published January 12, 2012
PressPausePlay
The full-length documentary PressPausePlay is now available to watch on Vimeo. The film, which somehow manages to be simultaneously both inspiring and melancholic, looks at the effects of digital technology and the Internet on the creative economy. Worth watching if you have a spare hour (although depending on your attitude to these things it might make you smile in joyful validation or retreat to your bed for about a week to weep quietly to yourself:
PressPausePlay was made by creative agency House of Radon.
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Published January 4, 2012
Ink & Paper
‘Ink & Paper’ is a bitter-sweet short film directed by Ben Proudfoot about Los Angeles paper company McManus & Morgan Paper and their next-door neighbour Aardvark Letterpress:
(Happy New Year)
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Published December 22, 2011
Burton Kramer Film Trailer
A trailer for a short film by Greg Durrell about Canadian graphic designer and painter Burton Kramer to be released in Spring 2012:
Durrell has also published a book about Kramer’s design work called Burton Kramer Identities.
(via Swiss Legacy)
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