Letman (Job Wouters) has some great illustrative and hand-lettered work in his portfolio. It’s refreshing to see that many of his projects do not contain any digitally-rendered typefaces. I also really like the video project, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, in which Wouters has a lettering session with his nephew. It’s really interesting to see how children interpret the letters that they see.
Lou Dorfsman was the Creative Director at CBS for more than 40 years. One of his many contributions to the CBS working environment, Gastrotypographicalassemblage is an incredible work of three dimensional typography that occupies a large wall in the cafeteria. I’ve seen quite a few photos of the work, but I recently viewed this interview, which features images of the process, as well as commentary by the late Lou Dorfsman.
Click through the link below to view the video.
James Provost, a technical illustrator, recently completed a poster featuring his renderings of iconic mid-century modern furniture. The style is inherently minimal, and the textured shadows add a vintage feel to the illustrations. You can buy a giclee print, featuring all of the pieces, from imagekind.
Check out James Provost’s Flickr Feed.
Today, cabedge.com (the web design and development company where I work in Nashville, TN) launched a new portfolio site. Everyone worked incredibly hard, and the resulting site functions as an explanation of our process, a portfolio, and a portal for clients to access some of the applications that we use here on a daily basis. Some new additions include an employee bio page and a blog (coming soon).
The first time I saw a diagram of a ship with dazzle camouflage, I thought that the diagram was a recent, purely conceptual illustration. However, I just learned that these camouflage patterns were actually used in both World Wars. The purpose of dazzle camouflage is not to conceal, but to disorient. The patterns make it difficult for onlookers to determine which direction the ship is heading. The Rhode Island School of Design has an online exhibit dedicated to these incredible camouflage patterns.
Experimental Jetset is an incredible design studio in Amsterdam. Most of us recognize their work from Gary Hustwit’s documentary, Helvetica. This podcast, filmed at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, reveals the backgrounds of the designers and some of the processes behind some of their iconic pieces (I had no idea that Experimental Jetset was behind the John&Paul&Ringo&George t-shirt designs until I saw this lecture).
The trailer for Spike Jonze’s big screen accompaniment to Maurice Sendak’s childhood classic, Where The Wild Things Are, has finally arrived. The cinematography looks incredible, I particularly liked the use of Arcade Fire’s Wake Up as the score for the preview.
Bonus: You can find desktop wallpapers of some of the scenes on the movie’s fansite.
I’ve never actually heard any of The Chariot’s music, but I recently saw that the band members are hand-stamping the art onto their new album, Wars And Rumors of Wars. They’ll also be signing and numbering each of the 25,000 copies. This is a great way to reach their fans and give incentive to go out and actually buy the CD. Plus, the texture created by the process of stamping gives makes the design look as if it were printed in an old newspaper, which plays nicely off of the album title.
Watch the video of the stamping process.
Via Heavy Eyes.
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries site has a beautiful collection of Czech Book covers from the 20’s and 30’s. Many of the books feature hand-drawn type and those books which utilize set type retain a human quality about them.
If you haven’t heard about Aaron Noble yet, he’s got some incredible work that’s definitely worth viewing. His style has been described as “comics in a blender”, and once you see it, you’ll see why. Beautiful/Decay recently posted some artist profile footage featuring Aaron Noble and revealing some of the processes involved in the production of his works. Click through the link below to watch the video and view more of the artist’s work.
Sites worth viewing
For your ears.
Found Footage
The History of The Amen Break
Objectified Trailer
The Dot And The Line
The American Look - 1958
Cold War Modern - Dieter Rams
If Mos Def Were President
The Archive
Children of The Clone - by superbrothers
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLUFound images
Josef Müller Brockmann Flickr Set by Blanka
Dusty Summers
Gebrauchsgraphik via Flickr
Evan B. Harris poster for Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
James Joyce
Planet Propaganda via Street Anatomy
Valero Doval
1950's-70's Flickr Set
Si Scott Studio
Overnewsed But Uninformed via Lightgreen