Not sure how much exposure these got in print ads around the UK or at the event, but these posters by Tavis Coburn for last months BAFTA awards (British Academy of Film & Television Actors) are awfully nice. One for each Best Picture nomination. Kay as long as we’re on the subject, why do books turned movie always say Now A Major Motion Picture? Major? As opposed to what? God.
But these posters are sweet. Thanks Slashfilm and BlackBook.
Bill Mauldin’s cartooning career took him through World War II, the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam, winning him two Pulitzer Prizes and a Purple Heart along the way.
A selection of his work has been screen printed onto t-shirts to raise money for The Soldiers Project, which focuses on giving free psychological treatment to soldiers going to and coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Oh, and if you want to know what I imagine my dad to have looked like around 1940, I refer you to the cowlick and smirk above.
If you’re like me, first of all sorry, secondly, that means one of your greatest fears is proclaiming your love for a non-western typographic work only to be informed that it’s a particular culture’s version of comic sans. Eeek!
I did a post a while back on the book Arabesque Graphics which dealt a little bit with this phobia. Unfortunately it meant buying a book.
But now there’s CreativeRoots. An intrepid daily blog that pulls design inspiration from across the globe, much of it featuring type. Give it a go.
The photographs in this series by French photographer Denis Darzacq are arresting enough on their own—untouched images of Parisian hip hop and contemporary dancers frozen mid-jump, mid-spin, and mid-flip in postures that often convey a sense of indifference towards the approaching earth.
And then you find out how the series came about: From French Culture: “It was a carefully crafted response of Darzacq and a group of young French people to the alienation of youths on suburban housing estates after the riots that shook France in 2005 … A depiction of an entire generation in France in free fall, ignored by society, their energy untapped and unused.”
See the entire series and a video of a photoshoot.
I was looking for sweet airplanes for a poster project and came across this little trove of science and mechanics magazine covers. Most of them have nice high res scans to oggle, and supporting articles with cool diagrams, photos and whatnot.
I am partial to the flying wing cover.
And as long as we’re on the topic of aviation, the Lockheed Constellation was the most beautiful commercial aircraft ever conceived. Discuss.
Capsule, the most difficult to find company on the internet, has a new website. Very elegant. Cool. Subtle. And the only site I’ve ever intended to visit that ends in .us
I do miss the atmospheric beats of the previous website, now dubbed CapsuleLab. There was a spell when I used to turn it on in the background when my ipod died. Feels like that anticipatory groove loop before a Peter Gabriel concert. Oh, now you’re curious.
If you dig those funky bloops, you can craft your own looped musical grooviness at tonematrix.
Today is Arthur’s Day, the 250th birthday of the father of Guinness. Everyone in the world—seriously, everyone in the WORLD—is going to be at the pub at 17:59 to toast old man Arthur and the blonde in the black dress.
