June 2009
70 posts
“The TV had clips of Thriller on heavy rotation, which seemed a tad...”
– Charlie Brooker on that story
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This week, I have mostly been:
trying to get my hands on copies of 032c and Man About Town, but apparently they don’t exist in Yorkshire
grazing
trying to work out what to wear with my brown suit (blue or pink shirt/tie? Brown shoes? Or are black shoes acceptable? Can’t I just wear Cons and a t-shirt? No?)
listening to Tracy Jacks too much
eating the finest steak in York
failing to watch The Long Goodbye in...
“[Britpop] wasn’t Blur or Oasis … it was the NW1 noir of The Auteurs, the...”
– The Quietus review of excellent-looking compilation Common People: The Britpop Story.
Unreal cars
Do you know what really grinds my gears? The current trend for car adverts that don’t actually feature real cars. This Nissan advert is a prime example: a bunch of CGI cars being flung around with no consideration for the laws of physics or the fact the consumer might actually be interested in how the car really handles.
There’s a good reason why advertisers use CGI. They can...
“The most distinctive element of the typeface is its enormous lower-case...”
– Michael Bierut – not a fan of ITC Garamond
I love this series of airport runway photographs by Jonathan Howells (aka Graphic Definer).
I always took it for granted that the cars in Tintin looked like, y’know, real cars. Fortunately, somebody has not only realised this, but gone to the trouble of identifying every single one of them (via Graphic Definer), so that we can now appreciate Hergé’s books on a deeper, more designular level. It makes me happy that there are people out there willing to catalogue things like...
“It’s like that David Lynch movie where all the actors are recast halfway...”
– Charlie Brooker on Big Brother
Spotted on the all new FormFiftyFive, this lovely box set, celebrating twenty years of Warp. Yum.
WatchIt’s quite exciting that, following the success of Helvetica and Objectified, there’s a new cycle of quality documentaries about design. The latest is Coast Modern, a film by Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome that takes you “on a journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver; from 1922 up to the present exploring modernist architecture on the West Coast”.
The film should be out...
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This week, I have mostly been:
booking tickets to see Muse at the O2 in November
pottering around Kensington, visiting the Design Museum, discovering Princi (amazing bakers in Soho) and generally having a lovely London time with Dr B
feeling indifferent about the outcome of the Apprentice final
thoroughly enjoying Drag Me To Hell
distraught by my hair … what is it trying to do, exactly?
listening to some good ol’...
“Later this evening we‘re going to celebrate your shopping skills till dawn and...”
– Freitag have the loveliest order confirmation emails.
Jamie Conkleton: you can’t really fault a designer who puts a ruddy great big David Bowie quote in the middle of a book about woods (via AisleOne).
