As a follow up to Monday’s post Is This A Good Time?, here’s designer Michael Wolff discussing curiousity, appreciation and imagination as part of Intel’s Visual Life series:
(via Quipsologies)
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Published March 25, 2011
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Published March 22, 2011
“Fuck The Midtones” — How To Make A Book With Steidl
Screening at MoMA next month, How To Make A Book With Steidl is an award-winning documentary by Jörg Adolph and Gereon Wetzel about book publisher Gerhard Steidl:
(via Coudal. Of course.)
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Published March 22, 2011
Is This a Good Time?
Is This A Good Time? is a series of interesting video interviews on topics as varied sustainable design, social anthropology, formal semantics, collaborations, and intersections. I’ve just started working my way through them, but I very much enjoyed designer Michael Wolff’s thoughts on creativity:
When you’re speaking you can’t be thinking and when you’re thinking you can’t be speaking.
If anyone has any further information on the series (the website is a bit cryptic), please let me know.
(via Eightface)
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Published March 21, 2011
Benedikt Taschen | CBS News
A short profile of Benedikt Taschen from CBS Sunday Morning:
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Published March 17, 2011
Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, by Ivan Brunetti
Yale University Press recently posted a neat animated trailer for Ivan Brunetti’s new book Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice:
(via Fantagraphics)
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Published March 15, 2011
A Brief History of Title Design
Ian Albinson of the excellent The Art of the Title Sequence put together this short collection of film titles for the SXSW “Excellence in Title Design” competition screening:
(via Coudal)
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Published March 11, 2011
Amazing Things Will Happen
“Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality, it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, it’s just true!”
Jacob Gilbreath, a graphic design student at Oklahoma State University, created this great kinetic typography project — inspired by Lou Dorfsman’s Gastrotypographicalassemblage — from the dialogue of Conan O’Brien’s farewell on The Tonight Show on NBC:
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Published March 10, 2011
Chip Kidd: A Drinker and a Crier
Chip Kidd, book designer and associate art director at A.A. Knopf, profiled at Stodgy is Sexy:
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Published March 10, 2011
Bookbinders, 1961
Earlier this week I posted the 1947 documentary Making Books. As follow up, here’s the 1961 documentary Bookbinders from the AFL-CIO series “Americans at Work”:
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Published March 8, 2011
Making Books, 1947
Here’s a fascinating 1947 documentary produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films about the mass production of books:
(via Brain Pickings)
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Published February 28, 2011
Hitchcock and the History of Movie Trailers
If you are still stewing over last night’s lacklustre Oscars (or even if your not), take a listen to Terry O’Reilly’s entertaining history of movie trailers for The Age of Persuasion. He kicks it off with this genius trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds:
And, for it’s worth, movie trailers were originally created to get people OUT of theatres, not into them. Brilliant.
Listen to The Age of Persuasion podcast:
CBC RADIO: AOP GOES TO THE MOVIES
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Published February 23, 2011
Midweek Miscellany
The reluctant Daniel Clowes has a website. What the hell?
The Day The Movies Died — Mark Harris, author of the fantastic Pictures at the Revolution, on Hollywood blockbusters and the death of the great American movie. A really good read:
Which brings us to the embarrassing part. Blaming the studios for everything lets another culprit off too easily: us. We can complain until we’re hoarse that Hollywood abandoned us by ceasing to make the kinds of movies we want to see, but it’s just as true that we abandoned Hollywood. Studios make movies for people who go to the movies, and the fact is, we don’t go anymore—and by we, I mean the complaining class, of which, if you’ve read this far, you are absolutely a member. We stay home, and we do it for countless reasons… The urgency of seeing movies the way they’re presumably intended to be seen has given way to the primacy of privacy and the security of knowing that there’s really almost no risk of missing a movie you want to see and never having another opportunity to see it. Put simply, we’d rather stay home, and movies are made for people who’d rather go out.
You Can’t Learn Taste — A profile of Richard Russell, boss of London-based independent record label XL Recordings, in The Guardian:
This, after all, is a label that is thriving in an industry that is supposed to be dying.
“It’s not dying . . . it’s changing,” says Russell. “But then it always has been, as is the whole world. I just don’t think about the future at all. It’s not my responsibility.”
Really? He doesn’t have a strategy?
“Yeah – put good records out. That’s it. I’m sure there are people thinking about stuff like copyright and downloading, but . . . you don’t want an author to be thinking about Kindles and shit like that, do you? I mean, we do our best, but we definitely don’t offer any solutions for the music industry.”
And there’s the problem. You can’t learn taste.
Also in The Guardian, Barry Miles, author of London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945, chooses his top 10 books about London’s counterculture.
And finally…
Alan Arkin’s video for his new book, An Improvised Life, published next month by Da Capo:
Nice.
(via Jacket Copy)
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