Design Inspiration: Kazumasa Nagai

More great '60s-'80s design! Seems like at least once every month I discover another awesome designer from that era.

Kazumasa Nagai is a Japanese designer who did a ton of promo poster work during that time. I found a few galleries of his work at Lifelounge, Pink Tentacle and Flickr. There were also a few books based on his work, though they're hella expensive.

I watched these movies a day or two ago

Loved all three.

An Education

Suspiria

Johnny Mnemonic

Movies I saw recently (1/2/11)

The Limits of Control

Kidulthood

"Both glides were filmed by sticking a – relatively cheap – digital camera out of the window of a train as it arrived at a station. The ‘trick’ is the camera collects images at a rate of 210 per second – but the film is played back at 30 frames per second. So, every seven seconds of footage that you watch corresponds to 1 real second. At least at the start, one real second is plenty of time for someone to move into, then out of, the camera’s field of view, but isn’t enough time for them to really do much: hence, the frozen effect. It breaks down towards the end not because I’m doing something clever with the frame rates (captured or replayed), but simply because the train was stopping!"