Where: Fontana’s @ 105 Eldridge St. Between Broome & Grand
When: Wednesday, November 18th @ 7pm
Screenings: 8:30pm & 10:00pm
Door: $2
With special guests TBA!
We’d love for you to come out and celebrate this occasion with us!
NYC – The Film of Warp20 (New York) Live performances, interviews and animated surprises from Battles, Jamie Lidell, Flying Lotus, !!!, Clark, Hudson Mohawke, The Hundred In The Hands, Born Ruffians and Pivot. Directed by Lorenzo Fonda and produced by Warp Films/Mighty8. In loving memory of Jerry Fuchs.
Make A World is a film that Steve Juras is currently working on, a documentary about Ed Emberly. The film’s site has just gone live and you can help out by purchasing an amazing T-shirt featuring all 400 illustrations from the Make A World book. Awesome! All proceeds fund further production of the documentary.
One XL, please.
Read more here for an explanation of this piece by Colin Sebestyen.
Attention all Motion Graphic Design students:
Please take a look at this inspiring example of animated type and consider experimenting with animating actual letterforms and typography for your next kinetic type assignment. Intonation exercises like Macho Box and What Does Marcellus Wallace Look Like? are definitely part of the language of animated type treatments, but there’s SO MUCH MORE to explore… Just a thought.
Great interview with Experimental Jetset at Unit Editions:
We were recently watching West Side Story, a musical we’ve seen a million times before, but only now realized that the gang in the movie was called The Jets. ‘When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way/From your first cigarette to your last dying day’. Childish maybe, but it gave us a boost of energy.
Most graphic designers become graphic designers because they have an urge to make work that they can call their own. Is it possible to satisfy this need within a studio of three equals?
We can call all our work our own, because the three of us have an important input into it. In our view, that’s one of the advantages of being a two-, three- or four-person studio: it’s small enough for everybody to feel involved, but it’s large enough to have the benefit of the collective; that magical feeling when the whole turns out to be more than the sum of parts.
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We really like that idea of hundreds of small studios circling the orbit, almost like bands. Because we really think all these small design groups together form a universe that is very comparable to that whole galaxy of pop and rock groups. …
Talking about bands, when it really comes down to it, we think that it is ultimately the band model, and not so much the studio model, that really inspires us. A band is such a perfect socio-economical unit. Large enough to have the benefit of shared responsibilities, and small enough for every member not to be alienated from the end product. We sometimes think every human activity should be organized according to this model. Society should be divided in small units, each unit a platform of human creativity, be it baking bread, making music, writing books or curing people.
And the archetypical band is, obviously, The Beatles, as it was one of the first modern four-piece bands writing their own material. Earlier bands were still divided between a frontman and a backing band (for example, Buddy Holly and the Crickets), but The Beatles broke this whole model open, and pointed to a completely different division of labour, a revolutionary change in thinking. The ‘John & Paul & Ringo & George’ shirt we designed in 2001 should certainly be seen as a homage to the archetypical model of the band.
via Yotam
The previous editions of PSST! are actually still online, they’ve just been hidden away for a bit. I’ve been putting the older films on Vimeo, and do plan on making them all accessible here at some point. But you can still take a look at the older versions as well as our music video for Over The Rhine, Desperate For Love. Links below:
Gorgeous new illustrations over at PSST’er Steve Scott’s site.
Great article at CG Society on Doug Purver and the process behind Omar and His Skyhook.