May 2009
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It dawned on me a while ago that idea of the perfect home has been shaped by the films of my adolescence. I’m sure I’m not the only person in the world to have been diagnosed with the condition known as “Eighties New York Comedy Apartment Envy”. Just think of the amazingness of the abodes in the following and I you’ll understand: Big. Fatal Attraction. When...
“If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.”
– Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography. Available as a poster here.
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This week, I have mostly been:
posting bits and bobs on FormFiftyFive
coming to terms with the fact that my eighteen year-old set of Pantone swatches probably needs replacing
accused of being inspirational on siteinspire, simple on siiimple, and a heavy eyeful on HeavyEyes
quite liking the new Jarvis Cocker album
producing a ridiculous number of leaflets and postcards and posters
waiting hopefully, patiently, for more...
“The common denominator between crime fiction and high school is a mood of...”
– Scott Tobias throws Brick into the Onion AV Club’s New Cult Canon
“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”
– Arthur C Clarke
I have no idea who they are or what they do, but Mannahatta is by far my favourite Ffffinder. Unlike most users (including me) they’ve chosen to keep the focus of their ffffindings narrow: it’s just lots and lots of pictures of amazing interiors. Based on this collection of images, I’ve deduced that the perfect apartment must have the following:
one – just one – Eames...
Straatis has a bloody good collection on Flickr of pictures of New York, from the 1900s up to the present days (some of which I’ve borrowed for my Twitter backdrop).
“There was not a single stupid choice made in turning this book into this movie....”
– From the first review of The Road. Along with Moon and Terminator Salvation, this is definitely one of my most eagerly anticapted movies coming out this year. BleakSciFi is so 2009.
“If you ask me, [Reed] Richards immediately recognised that invisibility,...”
– The Fantastic Four deconstructed by Ace Jet 170
“I met Jim several times and I was always delighted that the greatest...”
– Neil Gaiman on JG Ballard (from an interview at The Quietus)
Ivan Markovic is all over the graphic design corner of the Internet today. Why? Well, first of all, he had produced some gorgeous two-colour material for Paris Calling (a “Franco-British season of performing arts” according to one Juliette Binoche).
Second of all – and this is the important bit – he sent a really bloody nice email to various design bloggers, telling them about this...
“If you can’t tell your story in an hour fifty, then you better be David...”
– George Roy Hill
“The reality of graphic design’s piecemeal history is not that too many designers...”
– Rick Poyner discusses the design canon at the Eye blog
