i came across this wonderful piece on the CR blog from a while ago (must have missed it)… about the old coca cola neon sign on picadilly circus, london from the mid 1950’s and how it ws made, great stuff… there is also a link to their official company archive website, but its awful stick with the CR piece i say…
a new book entitled type player 2 arrived in the post this week featuring two of our projects, published by ‘ginko press’ in china, the book is nicely made and well researched, although a few of the projects i noticed are clearly bad rip-offs from better known work by other designers… i guess it’s time i stopped allowing people to publish the ‘suikerdepôt’ identity however, it’s been in so many books in the past few years and is already more than four years old, time to move on…
all 45 DDA nominees have been announced this week, including the selection for the ‘communication’ category which i was part of… overall i’m pretty pleased with the selection but there is bound to be quite a bit of discussion in the field, as there was on the jury days too
by the way if anyone has a beef about the quality of the selection or the fact that you are not selected, you are kindly invited not to contact me and bitch about it (again)… just to be clear the group which selected this work consisted of more than 15 people not just me, nepotism isn’t a factor, you are naive if you believe it is and if you don’t believe me try sitting in a jury yourself someday or even better make some good work and win…thanks, now i’ve got that off my chest…
…in this documentary we tried to capture the essence of this poetry, as well as the poets who define the streets of New York. The film made its premiere in 2009 at the International IDFA festival and has screened at various film festivals since.
Spitting Ink follows eight spoken word artists as they traverse the streets, perform in situ, and talk about their motivation to write.
It was a chance encounter with a poet that led us to the streets of NY with a 16mm camera, an old DAT recorder and short-end rolls of film. We thought it would be interesting to film poets on location and cut portraits out of it. We did it without plan or budget because we’re not serious filmmakers. Most of the footage was already shot 7 years ago, but without knowing what to do with it, the footage got shelved. Only later we edited the footage down to all the bits that interested us and from there a story line organically evolved…
a road map to explain, from the genius christopher niemann (via erik spiekermann)