Listening (heavily) the past few to “The XX”, “Radio Dept” & “Al Green” [in no particular order]
Came across a great read yesterday. All the better for it
My favorite NBA player, Mr. Ray Allen gets his 20,000th point last night…check out this video (after the jump) looking back at some Ray Allen moments. > Read the full post
Your first ten thousand pictures are your worst- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Currently listening to: ” Dont u evah” by Spoon
Saw “Up in the Air” the other day and eye thought it was a very deliberate and excellent film. The former description a reference to the zeitgeist capturing motives of George Clooney & Co; the latter being the ensuing results (P.S: very well placed soundtrack)
Truly had a rousing good time and unequivocally my favorite broadway experience on Nov 28th!
Something to look forward to in February.
Disclaimer: Above image is not mine
This is about a month old but i enjoyed these Umbro competition entries. “After thousands of entries, here at Umbro we can unveil the finalists in our competition to customise the sole on a pair of Specialis. The response we had was amazing, with a fantastic range of designs from different ages and different countries around the world. These are the final 14, chosen from the thousands of different designs by a team of judges which included Umbro designers Stuart Semple and Stewart Scott-Curran, and Esquire’s art director David McKendrick. Initially we planned to have 11 winners, but the points system used by the judges to pick their favourites meant that we ended up with four designs tied in 11th place!”
Commercial photographer Susan Anderson crosses over to a fine-art career with her striking portraits from child beauty pageants. She has released a book and opened an exhibition featuring “tarted-up tots” with elaborate couture costumes, hair, and make up, Anderson explores the “high glitz” realm of child pageantry. I felt sick looking at these images, so i ‘guess’ the photographer did her job (not sure). The video (bottom of page) makes me feel otherwise…as they seem to be encouraging it.
The brain child of directors Coodie & Chike and media mogul Damon Dash. A cutting edge online content label based upon the fundamental idea of maintaining creative control over all content and production from programming to advertising. Providing a new alternative to television with its online viewing platform and engaging content to unite our demographic through our communication and coverage of cutting edge fashion, music, and art. True to its name, CREATIVE CONTROL maintains a high standard of integrity in its programming, advertising, and campaigns. Plus they have tons of vids of my boy, the Mighty Mos.
Ski feat. Mos Def-Taxi from Creative Control on Vimeo.
beautiful site by the way, created by Knowawall
-Nothing quite paints a more honest picture of NYC like this. The faces, names and places it frames are told here, 1 story @ a time. Love it, especially now I am afar
- Believe it or not: actually for a good cause. Seriously! And on a side note: glad ICR Deth Killers arz bakkk!!
- Weekend Agenda: Fantastic Mr Fox. Also, while I am on the topic of foxes
The selections in AIGA’s annual competition represent the best work across all disciplines of communication design and strategy, as chosen by a distinguished jury of design peers. As such, they become part of the AIGA Design Archives, a searchable visual database of exemplary design, they are exhibited at the AIGA National Design Center in New York and offered as a traveling exhibition for display across the country. WSDIA is proud to be apart of such an archive.
FontShop turns 20 years old.
In 1989 Erik and Joan Spiekermann signed contracts with leading type foundries, packed their small office with floppy disks full of fonts, and started taking phone orders. FontShop became the first independent retailer of digital type. Twenty years later we’re still stocking the best fonts (though the number has grown and the medium has changed) and still answering phones.
Graphics by Nicholas Felton (who else could do this better?). See our interview with Nicholas.
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INTERACTIVE VERSION HERE > so lovely!
Our favorite design studio, 2×4, have released their book, stating:
“Portrait of a studio in 1000 images.
by 2×4, New York
it is what it is was published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Eye of Gyre gallery in Tokyo in 2009. The book features 1000 by-products from the life of a studio, un-narrated and crudely arranged along a typical design trajectory from the earliest concepts, sketches, doodles and diagrams through the process of making, modeling, producing and, finally, delivering work into the world. A blurry telling of a blurry story, it is what it is attempts to locate a master narrative in the chaotic, quotidian process of making design, and to reveal how what we think about evolves into what we make.”
Now available at iiwii.org.
Eco-conscience, Eviana Hartman, designs the Bodkin Brooklyn collection in accordance with the principles of sustainability in materials and production methods, while maintaining the fashion aesthetic required by the stylish modern woman. The name Bodkin comes from the early English name for a dagger, needle, or hairpin. Bodkin was recently featured in I.D. Mag (Nov. 09)…Watch Eviana briefly talk more about her company goals and its roots here. Our talented friend, Roanne Adams art directed the photo shoot for the Bodkin catalog.
on a side note, WSDIA partner, Sarah, just bought this Bodkin piece.
Super artist, Sarah Oppenheimer updates her site with new works. Absolutely love her stuff!
“The focus of Sarah’s work is the feedback loop between constructed spaces and pedestrian motion. She studies how the built environment and human behavior reciprocally impact each other; most recently, the way that the visual progression of the human gaze is mapped by the contours of a given space. Sarah opens apertures in existing architectures, modifying the modular units that make up our standardized urban world. These apertures create new lines of sight within the space of display, and can function as both “holes” and “screens.”
Amazing amazing storytelling by image creator/hunter, Desiree Dolron.
Soft-Maps are quilted maps of cities and neighborhoods that represent someone’s unique place in the world. These quilts are meant to be used: wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor’easter. Not only beautiful, these blankets can be used as a mnemonic tool. As your child grows up with a Soft Map, they learn to read their neighborhood and its landmarks in a tactile, easily remembered way. Emily Fischer
Last Thursday we spoke at the ADC for their Pecha Kucha-style (20 slides, 20 seconds each. 400 seconds) 5+5 event. Here was the line-up:
Robin Bilardello and Ben Wiseman
Bridget De Socio and Yong Choe
dress code and Lindsay Ballant
Nicholas Felton and Jessica Hische
WeShouldDoItAll and Mario Hugo
Moderated by Connor Swegle of Click 3X Entertainment.
Svpply. A site that combines the function of an referral e-commerce site and FFFFound for fashion and the like. So dangerous. love it!
“Svpply is a retail bookmarking and recommendation service. Filtered through the collective wishlists of our members, Svpply features the full spectrum of retail products, from the exclusive to the wholesale.”
Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using the urban environment as his context. His work has been featured in various publications including Time, The Washington Post, Reuters, The Independent and on the street art blog Wooster Collective.
Boston-based type foundry, Font Bureau, is seeking at least $2 million damages for unauthorized use of type fonts on Jay Leno and Saturday Night Live. Font Bureau alleges the broadcaster bought one software license yet widely distributed unauthorized copies of three fonts: Bureau Grotesque, Interstate and Antenna. The type designs are used in such highly visible programs as “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “The Jay Leno Show.”
One has to wonder if design studio, Number 17 (designers of the Jimmy Fallon & SNL logos) has any part in lending.
Amazing shots by Hector Santizo at the 2009 Burning Man. Love this year’s theme.
Our second interview is with contemporary artist/sculptor, Diana Al-Hadid. Diana was born in Syria in 1981 and raised in Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has an MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as a BFA in sculpture and a BA in Art History from Kent State University. She has been the focus of several solo exhibitions and international group exhibitions, including New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Istanbul and Sharjah, UAE. Diana creates broad and spacious sculptures constructed from various mediums. The colossal-scale of her pieces articulate her concern with the architecture, mythology, theoretical technologies and the inevitable deterioration of ambitious human constructions. Read the full post
Current TV’s all access program, ‘Embedded’ follows Mos Def through Japan. Loved every minute of it!
Really loving the mural painting of the Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye onto this sub-par table. The legs could use some work. More images after the break.
Rem does a 3 part interview that discusses his hatred of the term ’starchitect’, contradictory times, journalism and current works in Asia, including one of my favorite OMA projects, the Seoul University building. Of course CNN shows Herzog & de Meuron’s Prada work instead of OMA’s. Silly kids.
