March 2011 wallpaper

Finally got around to finishing my March calendar.

Princeton: "To The Alps" from Hit City U.S.A. on Vimeo.

Parra is awesome.

SO HOT. Love it.
'Fly new coffee table' by Parra 90 x 70 x 40 cm — edition of 8 wood, fiberglass & enamel paint

New late calendars for February!

I finally got around to doing a calendar for February:

I also made a super sappy version:

"The SUPER FAMICOM CAR, a retro video game-inspired converted Scion xB utilizes projectors from both the front and rear to play video games. Its conversion includes sound making doors, a cartridge starter key, and controllers for each passenger. Designed by Giant Robot's Eric Nakamura and fabricated by Onimotorworks Len Higa, the car includes a custom video game, “Return of the Quack” featuring art by Matt Furie, programming by Chevy Ray Johnston, and game consulting and co-producing by Adam Robezzoli."

Love this poster. They all look so cool. Also, Kristen Wiig.

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!"

U&LC is online!

Fonts.com has started scanning issues of U&LC, a typographic journal that started in 1974 and ran for almost 30 years, and releasing them online for download. This is huge news for me because I've been a fan of Herb Lubalin and his work on the newsletter ever since I first saw pictures from it 10 years ago.


They apparently started doing this in October and have 11 issues up so far!

January 2011 Calendar

A calendar for January 2011 that I made for a monthly contest at work. Slightly reformatted here. I really wanted to break out of the grid we're accustomed to while keeping it useful as a calendar. Had a lot of fun doing it!

Design Inspiration: Sapphire and Steel intro