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This animation by Matthias Hoegg is muy impressive, not just because it’s a well executed animation, but the way the shots were editied together is spot on. The animation is 7mins long, but it goes by so quickly, so smooth, so elegant. It’s as if the most humble ballerina used her most gentle fingers to edit.
Motionographer did an interview with Matthias, in which he goes over the storyline and his processs and I recomend you read it!
So if you’re anything like me, your head exploded when you saw this kid’s typography. It’s so beautiful and illegible; like old timey graffiti.
Aaron has worked with numerous clients and has helped do a few of the Mondo posters! Why shouldn’t he help with Mondo prints? His type is cleary stunning, his attention to detail, flow and shape is arresting, and his sense of color is sometimes a little weird but mostly good.
Type design like this needs to be covered in design schools everywhere. I’m not saying that this type is perfect or that all type should look like this forever, but I think it’s important for students to realize that their huge library of fonts don’t harbor the only type solutions. A lot of times you’ll find what you need in a font, but sometimes you have to branch out, take the bumpers off the lane and just start swinging with your eyes closed; it may be more wise for some to start slow by making the ascenders & descenders longer than prescribed…. baby steps.
Although the most eye punching aspect is the headline type, I love how, in his short blips of body copy, he plays with the baseline having it wave. I could look at these forever.
Aaron doesn’t seem to have a site of his own (that I could find), but peep a lot more of his work in the arms of google images :)
I don’t really have much to say about this beautiful piece of art except I WANT ONE. This Scrabble Designer Edition is sleek, elegant, and most importantly, you can choose your own font! The board pieces slide out of a varnished walnut box, click together with magnets, and then the bottoms are lined with cork. I would want the assorted font pack. It’s so awesome! However, it’s really too bad it was just a concept project and Andrew Clifford Capener only made one set. (crying).
But good news, you can go to his website to see how you can help this Scrabble Designer Edition get into production and then buy one of your own! I mean, I would pay upwards of $200 for a set like this, so Hasbro would be truly stupid not to comply.
A few months ago, Jared, the guitarist, asked if I would film OpID’s cd release show. Of course I said yes; how could I refuse an OpID show? Hamilton was filming as well along with a few other kids taking pics.
OPid played at the Chapel Performance Space and totally rocked it correct. They just have this completely genuin sound which I’ve never really heard anything like before and seeing them live is something that anyone who can see should see. Something about how they get into their music makes me believe that they’d be acting the same way if they were just practicing alone in a bunker or playing to a crowd of 50,000. Be sure to keep an eye out for all the idiosyncrasies in each members’ moves.
You’d be smart to grab their album, LEGS, which our very own Hamilton Boyce helped to record and mix (tracks 4, 5 and 6)!
Peep their site for more on Operation ID and check out their label, Table and Chairs, for even more sweet sweet sounds.
Designed by Sagmeister, this is damn awesome. Sagmeister is easily one of my favs as well as a fav to zillions of others. This project was for BMW and this bit from Sagmeister’s site says it all:
” This book about all the cultural activities of BMW contains four hidden wheels, comes with a remote control and really does drive around the room. Culture moves. All 1500 printed books feature a different, individual cover design: When displayed together they form a giant white/blue graphic reminiscent of the famous BMW headquarters building in Munich.”
Is the book mark the antenne? Is that black strip hanging out even a bookmark? either way–too good.
If the whole business world just stamped everything by hand, we’d be much happier. Okay, that’s a little much. I know rubber stamps wouldn’t work for everything or everyone, but they are still a wonderful art. I have always loved stamps, even as a kid. We used to make our own by carving patterns and pictures out of soft erasers. And since then I have carved my own stamps for all sorts of things like, the covers of my high school yearbook, on a box for an advertising campaign, my own personal business cards, gift tags, etc. They are fun, handy, and irreplaceable. So, from left to right, including the first main image, these are hand stamped business cards from some great designers: Andy Luce, Megan Gonzalez, Adam Hill, Pablo Moreno, Gerren Lamson, and Sassen Design. It’s funny how most of them are circle logos. Circles are awesome!
When I first met Kristian Garrard in 2007 he played a mind blowing solo set to a handful of people at a Seattle basement show and afterwards told me about how he didn’t have an album and wasn’t really thinking about recording one. Needless to say I was a bit confused. Why would he not want to let us enjoy these angelic tones?
Around the same time he teamed up with Luke Bergman and luckily since then his attitude towards recording has changed and the two of them, known to the world as Thousands, have a full album being released on Bella Union on April 26th in the US and released yesterday in the UK.
Their album, The Sound of Everything, was recorded mostly outdoors in various locations around the Pacific Northwest. Each song captured as a live performance with a Zoom H2 handheld recorder.
We managed to catch up with Kristian and Luke so they could play us some songs and tell BossnotBoss about their music and recording process (and construction cranes falling into skyscrapers). After hanging with Thousands in the woods for a while we slid on down the street and they graced us with a genuinely powerful performance in the same massively echoey stairwell that one of the songs on The Sound of Everything was recorded.
The Sound of Everything feels like Thousands is playing their beautiful songs just for you and you might even feel a little bit lucky to have been there to witness it.
Order The Sound of Everything on Vinyl, CD, or digital download from the Bella Union website.
(photos by Hamilton Boyce, use with permission / videos by Christopher Martin and Hamilton / intro written by Hamilton)
Leaving his design job at Spearia to spend more time on art might be the best decision Pat Perry has ever made, because he’s turning out some amazing work!
I love his attention to details implied by his imagination which, otherwise, don’t exist. Each time my eye balls roll over another piece of his work, all I can think is “this is so cool!” again and again which brings me to my wish-
I wish Pat Perry would start including a story in his work. With such strong visuals, adding emotional depth into his future pieces would really make this kid unstoppable. Until then, his art will remain some of the most delicious eye candy I’ve seen in a long time.
This friday night is gonna be special. Pull up your favorite guy or gal or gallon of (something funny) and get cozy to the lastest piece from Eddie O’Keefe.
This flick rubbed me the right way. It’s like Coven meets Cry Baby meets Cry Baby for a second time with all the perfect flaws of home movies. As soon as it was over, I wanted to watch it again, but instead went straight to tell you guys about it- then to watch it again.
One of the reasons I like this short so much is because it looked like it was probably a lot of fun to make! Just get some friends, few leather jackets, and a grown-up or two and have at it. Part of me wants to believe that these kids hang out in the 50′s all the time, only this time there just happen to be a camera.
Be sure to show Eddie O’Keefe some love on his site or on (at?) his blog, The Teenage Head
Mostly known for his puppeteering work, This man also has some great illustrations which arrest the eyes and provoke thought. These works were done durring the early 1900′s and it always surprises me to find that such imaginative work was being made so long ago as if humans didn’t develop imagination until just recently.
It’s also always interesting to learn that there were these wonderfully talented people in the world doing art, design, music, anything really, but you never read about them in school. If I only knew what I learned in school, I would perceive the past to be a very dark and joyless time filled with not much more than plague, war, struggle, and the model T. From Austria, Richard is a light in my minds learned story of world history.