A clever video that shows a Wimbledon match between Federer and Nadal through flipping book pages back and forth.
© 2011 Jessica Svendsen
A clever video that shows a Wimbledon match between Federer and Nadal through flipping book pages back and forth.
A video of the 6-course dinner served on the New York L Train subway. To know more, read the New York Times article about the performance—“Aboard the L Train, Luncheon is served.”
The latest Stefan Sagmeister TED talk is now live. This time, Sagmeister talks about all the variables—conscious and unconscious—that affect our happiness.
Jason Munn, known for his concert posters, recently created a series of film posters for the Rolling Roadshow.
“Designing, Writing, Teaching: Not My Real Job”: A Video of Michael Bierut’s talk at the School of Visual Arts D-Crit lecture series.
Jonathan Franzen’s New York Times editorial on technology, “likeability,” and their incompatibility with real relationships—part of his recent commencement address at Kenyon.
Posters in Amsterdam.
The 2011 RISD Graduate Thesis show website, featuring work from the 15 graduating MFA students.
A flickr set of the hand-painted letters for the Brand New Conference.
Tempted by this book: One Thousand Polish Book Covers.
A wonderful account of M&Co’s complex and conceptual Christmas gifts—number 3 in “Form-Giving” by Rob Giampietro.
“Photography is the definitively modern, technologically relentless engine for the mass production of nostalgia. Video may be live, instantaneous, perpetually current, but a still photograph takes up instant residence in the archive. It gives you not the gratifications of immediacy, which moving pictures deliver so readily, but rather a teasing and endlessly seductive sense of distance. When you leaf through old albums or tickle the touch screen, you are excavating memory, traveling into the past, whether your destination is the last century or last night”: an article by A. O. Scott, commenting on Susan Sontag’s “On Photography.”
A flickr set of the Typotron publications.
Tara Donovan’s eight-foot drawings, composed of thousands of push-pins.
Become Someone Else: An ad campaign by the Lithuanian Agency Love on the idea of becoming, or identifying with, someone else while reading.
150 posters of variations on French heraldry.
8 Actors who look exactly the same on every movie poster.
Photographs of box car logos.
Wonderful reports on the “Fonts in Use” for the Live the Language: Paris video and TypoMag.
A video showing all displayable characters in the unicode range 0-65536.
A lengthy interview with Michael Bierut on Theoryhaus.
Typographic Abstractions: paintings of typographic details by Cecil Touchon.
“Brand Anna”: the feature article on Anna Wintour in The Wall Street Journal.
A New York Times article on the fate of marginalia in a digitalized world.
After reading Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, I found these hilarious videos (1 2) of memory champion Ed Cooke.
An interview with director Richard Press on the documentary on Bill Cunningham.
“Satellite photos of Japan, before and after the quake and tsunami”—an interactive slider reveals the damage.
Movie Barcodes compresses each frame of a movie into small segments so you can see the overall color scheme.
“A Brief History of Title Design”: a short film by The Art of the Title Sequence for SXSW.
Photographs of rest stops across America.
French photographer Eric Tabuchi captures everything from the logos on the back of semis, to smalltown Chinese restaurants, to mobile homes and restricted areas. The sheer volume of his documentation is well worth a visit to his website.
A portrait of the last daily market in Paris, Marché d’Aligre.
Atelier Kidimo: a Paris shop full of vintage letters and signage type.
Six minimal architects posters by Andrea Gallo.
The well-designed covers of Bloomberg Businessweek.
Jeff Bridges has an interesting website, especially this photo album documenting behind-the-scenes of True Grit.
A comparative look at the movie posters originally designed by Saul Bass and what’s left today.
A series of folded dollar bills that reveal new phrases.
IBM at 100: Icons of Progress (including “Good Design is Good Business”).
© 2011 Jessica Svendsen