BillSaysThis requested it …
so I made one. There’s a public ”santafestuccoandturquoise” palette made from my #59 image on Adobe Kuler. Enjoy, all.
FPO: Giuseppe Profilio Business Cards.
“Giuseppe Profilio, a film director, came to Joan Massó for a set of new business cards. He did not need a large amount produced, and he was looking for something that spoke clearly and directly about his methodology and approach to his work. Inspired by the slogan Everything fits, Joan provided an in-the-moment experience for his client, who is able to assemble his business card while having a conversation with the receiver. ” Clever.
Just Creative Design: Milton Glaser & Chip Kidd In Conversation.
”He mentioned how resistance to his work, for example a marketing department not approving a cover design, has actually served him well. Glaser’s process has been to work through the resistance and design new concepts. He feels that the end result has always been more successful than the original design.” ‘Work through the resistance.’ Sometimes it becomes an all-out war. Nice that he’s had success with it ... the name, no doubt, helps. And this is going to go over like a lead balloon: “Graphic designers shouldn’t use a computer until they’re 40-45.” There’s a distinct difference between an analogue designer and an all-digital one. My fear is, as with low MP3 quality, culture will just accept the change without considering it.
ColourLovers: Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text.
“According to the W3C, when you’re evaluating your web site for accessibility, you should ensure that foreground and background color combinations provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen.” This is one of my favorite bugbears. *Vital* when choosing colors for presentations on rear-projection screens. I used black levels to help separate and render text legibly, versus background colors.
Miller-McCune: Get Your Nose Out of That Book.
“At long last, scientists have developed a ‘sniff test’ to measure the telltale aroma of old books and irreplaceable historical documents. You know the smell — that ‘combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness,’ as the authors put it. Inhale and smell the Industrial Revolution!” A Kindle or iPad will never attractively pong ... unfortunately.
Design You Trust: YURI Sunglasses.
Are these really any better than those ginormous things you see old people wearing? Put a pair of these on, people might think you’re ... a little Gaga.
Creative Overflow: The Philosophy of Typography by Steven Acres.
NY Times: Statues Seem Ready to Leap, but Police Say They Won’t.
“They stand about six feet tall and look like naked human beings. Over the next few days, 27 of them will be scattered across rooftops and ledges of buildings in Midtown Manhattan — including the Empire State Building — as part of a public art exhibition. About the same time that the first figure was placed atop a four-story building at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue on Tuesday, the Police Department issued a statement reassuring New Yorkers that the figures are not despondent people on the verge of leaping to their deaths.” Nothing like eliciting a panic reaction. Is that an ‘artistic success’, I wonder?
Queness: Most Effective Method to Reduce and Optimize PNG Images.
Cute little trick.
Illinois.EDU: 20th Century American Bestsellers.
By decade. Via Metafilter.
COLOURlovers: Wedding Blog/Vintage Romance Lasts Forever.
Vintage wedding color palettes.
Smashing Magazine: Uncovering Toy Cameras and Polaroid Vintage Effects (With Photoshop Tutorials).
“These devices, made entirely of plastic, including often the lens itself, are not only toys. Sure, they cost next to nothing and have no controls to speak of, but this is what people like about them: they create unpredictable pictures, with equally unpredictable vintage effects. Once you understand this, the rest is a beautiful game.” The end of the article has full Photoshop tutorials for those who want to ‘fake it.’
Vimeo: MTV Rocks! - Ident Series.
Wonderfully weird.
NY Times: Caravaggio in Ascendance - An Antihero’s Time to Shine.
“Caravaggio, who somehow found time to paint when he wasn’t brawling, scandalizing pooh-bahs, chasing women (and men), murdering a tennis opponent with a dagger to the groin, fleeing police assassins or getting his face mutilated by one of his many enemies, has bumped him [Michelangelo] from his perch.” I hate playing with sore losers, for just this reason.
Cameron Moll, LLC: Colosseo 24"×16” Signed Poster (Pearl).
The Roman Coliseum, in type. Via Splorp’s Twitter.
Lightly Buzzed: George Clooney Shows How He Gets Through Oscar Night.
”The answer is not ‘patience.’”
CNN: Bill Mauldin stamp honors grunts’ hero.
“… the United States Postal Service deserves a standing ovation for something that’s going to happen this month: Bill Mauldin is getting his own postage stamp.” Abso-f’ing-lutely. If you don’t know Willie and Joe, you know nothing about WWII.
Aspen no. 5+6, item 3: Three Essays.
I take you directly to The Aesthetics of Silence / Susan Sontag. Via wood s lot.
If you’re bored,
take a look at some of the vids I added to my Posterous blog over the past week.
IndieReader: Authors’ Secret Delight.
“But book authors themselves tell a different story about their trade. They readily reveal the special pleasure beyond the pain of creation — the secret delight they experience during the process of doing revisions. This is still work, but satisfying, sometimes even thrilling.”
COLOURlovers: Technicolor Fashion: Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Pick your Holly Golightly palette.
CBC News: Mozart the big stick for U.K. school.
“News that a school in Derby, Britain, was piping classical music into a special detention area set up to punish troublesome students has ignited a debate about the use of the pieces. The idea of using Mozart and Ravel as deterrent for the badly behaved has roused the ire of both music lovers and critics of the public education systems.” This is a terrible precedent to set.
The Coolist: Bugatti 16 C Galibier Edition.
First we had a four-door Aston, now a four-door Bugatti. Beautiful ... but the seat, in that one shot, looks like it has a donut for hemorrhoid sufferers. I should think it would be unnecessary; if you sit in the back seat with an aggressive driver in the cockpit, you’ll necessarily be uptight.
YouTube: Natural gas commercial.
Will be entertaining to those who knit.
Motionographer: Javier Leon’s Mastery of The Miniature.
”The main challenge for me was to get away from a CG look, I think the look I had in mind really needed a realistic render.” Short, but to the point.
