Björk: Biophilia 12:18

 

 

There once was a time people just bought a 45rpm single if they wanted to buy some music. Well, that’s not going to fly anymore. Today, you need to maneuver crystals around the universe if you want to hear some music. At least for Björk’s…

 

 

(Found via SubmarineChannel)

Ashley Wood Special (3) 12:47

 

 

One of the nice things about the work of Ashley Wood is the consistent graphic design it seems to surround itself with. What I didn’t know is that often, someone else happens to be responsible for the graphics, and that someone else happens to be a Belgian: a guy named Tom Muller. Take a look at the work here (probably not all of it is by Muller, I’m not always sure…) and if you want to see some more, check out Tom Muller at www.hellomuller.com.

And if you just came in, also check out part 1 and part 2, the previous installments of the Ashley Wood Special.

 

James Victore Live 16:02

 

 

 

Haha! You know, I think this guy is great. I mean, he’s probably intolerable face to face and day to day, but people like that, who are just that little bit too much, I think they are swell.

And he does have some real sensible things to say, doesn’t he?

 

 

Film made by Hillman Curtis. More on James Victore? Try his site.

(Found via The Donut Project)

A History of the Title Sequence 21:14

 

 

A short film by Jurjen Versteeg, designed as a possible title sequence for a documentary on tile sequences.

 

(…) This film shows a history of the title sequence in a nutshell. The sequence includes all the names of title designers who had a revolutionary impact on the history and evolution of the title sequence.

Georges Méliès - Un Voyage Dans La Lune, Saul Bass - Psycho, Maurice Binder - Dr. No, Stephen Frankfurt - To Kill A Mockingbird, Pablo Ferro - Dr. Strangelove, Richard Greenberg - Alien, Kyle Cooper - Seven, Danny Yount - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / Sherlock Holmes

 

Find some more info on Forget the film, watch the titles.

 

 

(Found via The Casual Optimist)

To me, graphic design is… 12:12

 

 

This short documentary - actually more of a series of short interviews with different design clients of the Vostok Studio (who made the film) - manages to get on my nerves pretty quickly…

Oh, perhaps I just have to admit there is a bit of a contrarian in me. But when I have to listen for the umptiest time to the mantra that good design is simple and clear and rational and purposeful, I just get the heebie jeebies!

In the interviews someone states: “Everything in a design has to be there for a reason! When you ask why something is there, “because it looks good” is not a valid answer”. (Another one I’ve been hearing countless times since my unsuccessful passing through art school.)

“Because it looks good” is the number one reason I’ll put something in a design! If it doesn’t look good, out it bloody well goes!

“Because it tastes good” is the number one reason to put something in a dish. “Because it feels good” is the number one reason to caress your loved one.

Can’t we just have a little fun, please?

 

 

Still want to see the video? Of course you do! At least Buckminster Fuller seems to be on my side…

 

 

(Found via Cosas Visuales)

Font Generator Prototyp-O 13:10

 

 

A web-application, built on the Processing language (see: processing.org ) by a student from the “Arts Décoratifs” in Strazbourg,  Yannick Mathey, intended to design letterforms. Explaining it would take far too long. Just take a look at the video to see how fiddling with the different parameters changes the attributes of the letters.

 

 

Yannick explains (in the comments on the Vimeo-pages) that of course he didn’t intend to replace the type designer, yet his app is designed to facilitate experimentation. For every parameter markers are set up to indicate trespassing the rules of what is commonly considered good design, yet the markers are also there to be crossed, opening up the possibilities to generate extraordinary forms.

 

 

If you are interested in following the development of the app, you can subscribe to a newsletter on byte-foundry.com or you can follow @bytefoundry on twitter.

If you speak French, you can read an extensive interview with Yannick Mathey on CG-Blog, where I found this.

(And if you didn’t know: CG-Blog also did a rather nice interview with yours truly, a while ago, which is also available in English. Go check it out! )

Stuxnet 10:36

 

 

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a computer virus is a gorgeous infographic/motion graphic video. Changes are you’ve seen it around before, I know, but it was just too nice not to post…

 

 

Made by Patrick Clair. Visit his site for more of his work

(Found via The Donut Project)

Spek 17:06

 

 

"Can anyone imagine anything in the arts that would surpass the visible rendering of sound, which would enable the eyes to partake of all the pleasures which music gives to the ears?"
— Louis Bertrand Castel (French mathematician. 1688 – 1757)

 

 

(Found via Cromoart)

The Books of Irma Boom 10:56

 

 

Dutch designer Irma Boom makes books. She has made over 250 of them, 50 of which are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Check out the following video to see her at work…

 

 

 

More on Irma Boom at www.irmaboom.nl

(Found via Dutch Profiles YouTube Channel)

Aesthetic Apparatus 13:06

 

 

Posters, posters, posters, posters and some more posters… Check them out!

(Thx to Rayman for the find)

 

 

(Found via Planetary Folklore)

Letterpress by Naomie Ross 10:22

 

An “instructional” video by New York-based  (motion) designer Naomie Ross.

 

 

(Found via The Casual Optimist)

Heath Killen 10:44

 

 

 

Oooooh! You just can’t help but fall in love with the gorgeous posters designed by Heath Killen, now can you? Idiosyncratic use of color, graphical textures, strong compositions. Yes. Yes, I say!

 

 

Find more of his work on madebyhk.com and also check his blog and the Theoryhaus-site where he posts interesting articles, interviews and talks about the process of graphic design.