March 2009
65 posts
“It is important to use your hands, this is what distinguishes you from a cow or...”
– Paul Rand, Coversations With Students (reviewed on the Designer’s Review of Books)
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This week, I have mostly been:
discovering that I’m a member of D&AD (can I have my Annual now please?)
getting myself a lovely Panasonic LX3 … and trying to work out how to do anything with it
exploring London town
shaving
getting all kinds of excited about Where The Wild Things Are
surprisingly organised at work
trying to work out if I can justify spending £400 on reprints of 50s/60s issues of Arts and...
“Never before in the history of car washing have so few cars been washed by so...”
– Margaret Mountford, The Apprentice
Okay, so this has been bugging me all week. The other day, our neighbouring office put up a new sign. Nothing particularly special about it, but I couldn’t stop looking at it … there was something wrong … something … And then I saw it. One of the H’s is upside down. I’m guessing it’s the second one. See – the crossbar is slightly lower. It’s one of those things that isn’t immediately...
An announcement
I would just like it to be known that, based on the trailer alone, I think Where The Wild Things Are should win the Best Picture Oscar next year.
So there.
Big thanks…
… to Luis Eduardo Landero for the Dropular invite. I’m now dropping things as if they were hot.
An open letter to Eva Green
Dear Ms Green
Having sat through Casino Royale, The Golden Compass and now the execrable Franklyn, I would just like to point out that, no matter how hard you try, you cannot do an English accent. You’re not even getting close. The words that plummily fall out of your face just sound ridiculous, and it actually makes it quite difficult for the audience to judge whether or not you’re a...
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This week, I have mostly been:
being a little bit disappointed with my new Moleskine (stupidly bought “notebook” instead of “sketch book” – more pages, but they’re way too thin)
sitting through all of Beck’s dirgy Chemtrails to discover there’s actually a really good bit at the very end
getting older
chopping off hair
rediscovering pâté
learning how to spell pâté
the last person on Earth to discover that the...
“When you’re an editorial designer, your name is on the magazine....”
– Ina Salz, 100 Habits of Successful Publication Designers
WatchInteresting comparison of the many many iterations of the Batman logo. I hate the Nightfall (shouldn’t that be Knightfall?) one, and really rather like the Dark Knight Returns one. You?
Above: Habitat’s new “Polygon” cushion and the Feltron 2008 Annual Report. Hmmm.
UPDATE: More details emerge on the bizarre lineage of the Feltron Anual Report …
“No one should be designing record covers after the age of 30 … music covers are...”
– Peter Saville
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This week, I have mostly been:
learning the word “manicule”
preparing mind for overseeing imminent magazine relaunch
really getting into Lost – so much so that I’m now getting old episodes from iTunes and inserting them into the current series to act as handy flashbacks
really giving up on Heroes
amazed at how much some people love petty bureaucracy
watching and loving a live broadcast of the New York Metropolitan...
“I view stories not as a map of the past, but constructions of the past; its...”
– Stanley L Witkin, bloody interesting Social Constructionist guy (thanks Dr B!)
WatchWhen he’s not busy being Mad Men’s Don Draper, sometimes Jon Hamm is Lex Luthor. Who knew?
“1. All bats are animals. 2. Some wooden objects are bats. 3. Therefore, some...”
– Sam Potts
“Bloody hell, he’s only gone and bloody changed the design of the site...”
– You lot.
“In Nick Zinner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have an accomplished and improving manipulator...”
– The Quietus like the new YYYs album. Not listened to it yet. Fingers crossed … pres play … I’ll be back in half an hour …
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