Marc Newson

2 Jul

 

The other week I came across yet another brilliant episode of the BBC series Imagine. Alan Yentob, the series creator and BBC executive follows industrial designer and creative director Marc Newson. I’ve always been a fan Newson, but never really engaged much in his work. I was especially blown away with his gallery furniture pieces for his show at the Gagosian’s New York gallery. Watching the Extruded Chair being cut from single pieces of flawless Carrera marble was mindblowing.

George Carlin, Dead at 71

23 Jun

Not just a loss of one of the greatest comedic minds of our time, Carlin was the last of an era of comedians that’s imperativeness is needed now more so than ever. Carlin’s performances were great recitations of his thoughts on cultural and observations of everyday life. He spoke of the absurdity and true stupidity of culture, politics and society, always reminded us of how far we have regressed as a species.

Here’s a link his obit in the New York Times

Species-Being Films

18 Jun

 

 

Logo and Identity for Species-Being Films. Along with the collateral for their current feature documentary “Love Limits”.

Kate Moss by Hedi Slimane

18 Jun

 

 

Nothing news breaking about this post. Seen these photos myself all over the place. But Im really impressed with Hedi Slimane’s photography, aside from his main talent as a men’s wear designer, so Im putting up these photos of Kate Moss he shot. You can see more photos shot by Slimane over at his “diary“ 

 

Spiritualized/Farrow

18 Jun

 

 

Grabbed these from a post a month or so ago off the Creative Review blog on the relationship between Spiritualized (J. Spacemen) and Mark Farrow, their Art Director since their release of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space.

 

Video Exploration

17 Jun

After my last post i decided through drop the illustrator file right into After Effects and see if a more “3D environment” would fit the look. So in the course of 3 minutes I outputted this little video. Nothing too impressive technically, of course. More of an idea that the aesthetic of the illustration works pretty naturally in the context of a 3D space.

Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.

Design Exploration

17 Jun

I was looking at some back issues of Playboy’s from the 60s and 70s and found myself really attracted to the illustration style I came across in a few issues, surprisingly enough. I thought about trying to see what the elements were in these comical illustrations and what lent to the aesthetic. The style wasnt specific to Playboy in anyway, its just that its the first time they actually caught my interest.

Papers

16 Jun

Pelican Book Covers

16 Jun

 

So Im not about to take credit for collecting and scanning in all these Pelican Book covers. But when I came across these covers it was too tempting to “steal” them. But I think the ability to “steal” someone else’s archive or collection thats posted to the internet is one of the many great things about the internet. The more people independently catalogue and archive content and objects that they are interested in only serves to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of researching and exploring information online. 

 

M.I.T Posters

16 Jun

 

Some excerpts of a collection of posters from M.I.T. University’s art and music departments and exhibitions.