the ‘images for the future’ project for which i also designed a book (last year) has recently commissioned local production company plus one to make a short film (a neat mix of animation, live action & cgi) to explain the project’s goals (conservation and digitization of holland’s audiovisual heritage) to a wide audience, very nice indeed…
(tip via ‘thijs’ who actually commissioned the film)
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augmented future
been there, done that
@Ryan Pescatore Frisk:
I don’t know where I’m going, but it’s definitely not here.
i couldn’t agree less with this tweet posted on saturday afternoon, following on from the seminar taking place in amsterdam amidst the chaos of snow and cancelled flights all over europe… a packed paradiso listened to a series of talks on where graphic design is headed and i found it all very inspiring, no real hard answers but plenty of clues as to what is happening in the world and how we as designers can play a relevant role in those changes…
some highlights for me were the british design critic ‘alice rawsthorn’, who addresssed the crowd via ‘skype’ from london due to a cancelled flight (which somehow gave her talk an extra level of urgency) plus ‘stefan sagmeister’ (whose presentation i’ve heard at least twice already in recent years but never bores me) the ‘wikileaks’ architecture ponderings from ‘metahaven’ and a personal note by ‘sophie krier’ who initiated the whole afternoon… all in all highly entertaining and i’m already looking forward to next years event.
referencing homer
an amusing compilation of fragments in which hollywood movies have referenced famous scenes from the simpsons, or should that be the other way round?
don van vliet
psychedelic shaman, borderline genius…. captian beefheart (who has just sadly passed away) is admittedly not somebody i know a lot about, however this documentary (narrated by the wonderful ‘john peel’) goes a long way to explaining what he was about, worth a watch (tip via ‘peter van deursen’, thanks!)
modernist britain
i came across this wonderful identity for a chain of fish shop in britain, dating back to the post-war era, which mike dempsey unearthed on his blog, designed by largely forgotten british modernist jock kinneir
see also this related post on the same designer (and the same decade)