She's so cool.
12/9/09
11/6/09
Philip Glass + Geometry + Sesame Street
There is too much awesome here to process. amazing.
Also, one of my favorite pieces, involving Lucinda Childs (choreography, stage mapping), Philip Glass (music), and Sol Lewitt (video) is "Dance":
10/6/09
9/29/09
Old Esquire Covers
Back in the day, all Esquire covers had to incorporate the magazine's mascot, Esky. The great Henry Wolf was the art director from 1952 to 1958, and had pretty creative ways of using the logo without just sticking it on the corner of each cover.
9/23/09
Old Plays
Found outside of Mercer Street Books, on the dollar-book cart. I love the fat-face scene title mixed with the be-serifed body type, simple and elegant. The play's not half-bad either.
9/7/09
Lou Dorfsman and the CBS Wall
This is one of the most amazing pieces of typography, ever. He worked with close friend Herb Lubalin on the type, which was all hand-cut from wood. The Center for Design Study is currently restoring the wall as it was sitting in a basement for years after CBS just tore it down in the 80s or 90s.
8/7/09
7/16/09
The Horrors
I love this video as well as the album, Primary Colours. This was the first single off the album, which was released back in March. A little late, but I saw this awhile ago and haven't forgotten it.
6/5/09
5/18/09
5/17/09
serge gainsbourg et brigitte bardot
he lights his cigarette mid-performance. and has look-a-like male back up singers. amazing. also, check out "bonnie and clyde"
this necklace
i was in kate spade the other day, (at their newly re-designed wonderland on 5th ave), and probably tried this necklace (the tulum swirl necklace) on about 6 times in an hour. the chain is pretty long and light and the pendant hits right at the stomache/right above, so it really stands out. they have been on this ancient mexican culture through mid-century interpretation (for a while now), cue the Tijuana Brass.
5/6/09
Klute
The title sequence alone is amazing, unfortunately hard to find on youtube, but the use of audio from wiretapped-phone calls
alongside creepy/atmospheric soundtrack with minimal visuals is fantastic. They also build the wide latin "Klute" in the title from triangles,
which is pretty inventive. Also worth seeing is Bree's (Jane Fonda) wardrobe, which understandably defined a new style in the 70s, and continues to influence many today.
Also, Donald Sutherland, I might be in love with you.
5/4/09
Old and Reliable Colgate Packaging
an all-purpose soap i found at the food store that goes for about $.80 and can be used on anything. in these uncertain times, this packaging is the real deal, as it hasn't changed in about 765 years and has seen every major american war without a re-design.
Pistilli Roman (Opti Pirogi, Galeere)
Fat-face typefaces have to be one of my most enduring obsessions, as they managed to be part traditional Didot spin-off as well as geometric modernist. The extreme contrast and balance between the thick and thins make for a dramatic display typeface that is a never-fail in attracting attention. Taken from the newspaper-friendly Didot, Pistilli Roman was created by Herb Lubalin and John Pistilli in the 60s, abandoned, and was partially digitized as Opti Pirogi Roman in the 90s. Today the typeface is midly captured in the Galeere typeface, but not as well.
One of my favorite fat-face typefaces, which is saying a lot because i love fat-faces so very much, Pistilli Roman, was so nicely used as a fat-face should be (large and clean), on the Valley of the Dolls re-design from 1997. I would probably have passed by this book, but the cover drew me in, and the designer, Evan Gaffney, used the same template for other Jacqueline Susann novels in the Dolls series.
4/29/09
Surface to Air "Night Out" men's tennis shoes
i would have to find the little boy's version, but these shoes are like the gatsby of tennis shoes, always classy. if only they came in metallic gold they'd be perfect. all the boys would be so jealous.
found on refinery 29
4/26/09
Richard Perez
I found out about richard perez courtesy of grain edit, he is a san-francisco based designer and illustrator and his work is so fun but so clean as well. he has an etsy shop as well as a website.
4/14/09
"Girls in the Window"
by photographer ormond gigli, shot in 1960 in the facade of a crumbling row of brownstones in upper manhattan. such cool composition and contrast. found on fashion is spinach, and gigli's website.
felt typography
from a Necchi brochure from the late 60s/early 70s. found on cathy of california, might be some new inspiration.
4/12/09
apartamento magazine
apartamento is an "everyday life interiors" design magazine out of italy, which i saw on reference library. it looks like they don't stock it in america (but they had a launch party at matter in new york), but hopefully that will change because i really love the aesthetic and layout.
airline logos
the Museum of Flight has a list and image library of airline logos from the past and present. it is so interesting how airlines marry national pride with flight, as they have to encourage tourism and inspire confidence that the plane won't end up in the middle of the ocean. the logos and brand identity usually capitalize on the strongest and optimistic aspects of the country's culture. interesting stuff.
4/8/09
IBM on the "Future"
Square America has photos from a slide show from 1975 about the future. I wish I could go back to this future.
3/15/09
dutch door letterpress cards
beautiful letterpressed card I got for my grandmother's birthday, from Dutch Door Press in california, found at Greenwich Letterpress.
These Pucci Shoes...
these are pretty old, but i still want them very badly. photo from Amelia's Magazine.
2/6/09
old matchbook covers
Dan Chamberlain has a flickr set of old matchbooks, which is amazing. i love how they bled the plaid to the edge, who doesn't want a plaid matchbook, i mean, really?
2/1/09
this teacup + saucer i found on ebay
I have been looking for something like this for ages, the perfect teacup in marigold (my favorite color), and this might be the best accidental find on the internet, ever.
1/31/09
Eli, No!
Eli, No! is a new children's book by Katie Kirk, it is currently unpublished, but hopefully will be in stores soon. until then, Katie Kirk's Flickr has the whole book as a slideshow.
found on grain edit
Isabel and Ruben Toledo
I really hope my life will be this awesome one day.
click here to read the New Yorker article on the Toledoes.
1/28/09
Block Type on Novel covers
found on So Much Pileup, these book covers are an interesting take on novels that are so well known, they have their own style and they don't really need a cover.
1/24/09
1/18/09
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