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The Lost Poster
August 13th, 2009Category: Design, Films, Grid Systems, Industrial Design, International Typographic Style, Merch
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We’re all familiar with the silver Objectified poster, but Michael C. Place designed a second version with a white background and silver objects and black text that wasn’t used. It’s now being released as a limited edition letterpress, printed in metallic black and silver ink, on Crane’s Lettra 300gsm paper. Sounds like heaven.
It’s being printed by the awesome Brooklyn based Coeur Noir Letterpress, the same folks that printed the Helvetica poster and my son’s baptism invitation. They do stellar work.
Only 100 will be printed and you can grab one for $125.
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File Magazine
April 16th, 2009I’m digging this.
File Magazine is a bi-annual publication that focuses on graphic design, art and visual communication and includes a DVD that features shorts, videos, interviews and more. Each issue also features a limited edition print.
They’ve just released their first issue which can be purchased for £6.50.
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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
March 10th, 2009Visual Acoustics is a documentary film by Eric Bricker that explores the career of the extraordinary architectural photographer, Julius Shulman. His aesthetics, composition and style create timeless photographs that epitomize modern architecture. Shulman is easily one of my favorite photographers.
Unfortunately there isn’t a good online gallery of his complete work, you have to do some searching to find most of it. But there is an amazing book set titled Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered that catalogues his personal archives. Gotta get my hands on a copy.
The film is being screened in limited cities, one of which isn’t NYC, which I don’t understand. Shulman himself will be speaking at some of the screenings and if you’re lucky enough to be in one of these cities, definitely check it out. It’s should be a good one.
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Objectified Poster
March 6th, 2009The exceptionally talented Michael C. Place has designed this damn sexy poster for the new Gary Hustwit documentary Objectified. Sized at 27″ x 39″ and lithographed, it features illustrations of objects created by the designers in the film. The poster will be one sale very soon at the Objectified store.
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Now Showing/Barcelona
September 24th, 2008Darren from Six and of WIWP fame contacted me about an art exhibition called Now Showing that explores the lost art of the film poster. Artists who’s work is on display include: Build, Hellovon, Non Format, Corey Holms, David Pearson, Marian Bantjes, Tomer Hanuka, Wallzo, James Joyce, Yuko Shimizu, Siggi Eggertsson and Many More.
The show is currently in Barcelona at the Vallery gallery from Sept. 18 — Oct. 18. Here’s a Flickr set of the Barcelona show where you can also purchase the posters from.
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Objectified
July 29th, 2008Category: Events, Films, Industrial Design, International Typographic Style
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Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Read director Gary Hustwit’s post about the film.
Objectified is currently in production and will have its world premiere in early 2009.
Featuring
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
IDEO (Palo Alto)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)
and more participants TBA
You can purchase the limited-edition screenprint above that was designed by Build.
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Limited Edition Helvetica Blu-ray Designed By Experimental Jetset
March 12th, 2008A Blu-ray version of the Helvetivca documentary has been announced today. This limited-edition versions comes in a 12″ gatefold record cover created by amazingly talented Experimental Jetset. It contains the Blu-ray disc on one side and a fold-out poster in the other, all housed in a custom black cloth record bag. 1,500 copies have been produced and each copy is signed by director Gary Hustwit.
This thing is freakin’ gorgeous! I want one so bad but the price is a little steep, $125. You can pre-order it now and it will ship on May 6th. There’s also a standard Blu-ray version that’s only $26.
Now I have to explain to my wife why I’m spending $125 on a DVD.
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Gary Hustwit Interview
December 13th, 2007A nice little interview with Helvetica director, Gary Hustwit for Studio360.
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Comic Sans Documentary
September 5th, 2007Comis Sans, a documentary film coming soon. Fake or real?
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Helvetica DVD Pre-order
August 14th, 2007The Helvetica DVD is now available for pre-order with a release date of November 6. It will be available in a retail version and a deluxe limited edition that is only available online.
Helvetica DVD pre-order
(Retail version)
The DVD includes the full 80-minute feature film, plus over 90 minutes of additional interviews with Massimo Vignelli, Matthew Carter, Erik Spiekermann, Hermann Zapf, and more. NTSC, 16x9 anamorphic widescreen presentation, full-color booklet, English and German language subtitles. Release date: November 6. Pre-order now, you’ll save $5 and receive early shipping (a week before street date) and two love/hate Helvetica film buttons.
Helvetica DVD pre-order
(Deluxe limited edition)
A limited-edition package in a custom box that includes the retail DVD, three letterpressed mini-posters, a color C-print of a still from the film (one of ten different stills) signed by director Gary Hustwit, two love/hate Helvetica buttons, and a letter of actual Helvetica metal type! We might even throw more cool stuff in there too. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Release date November 6, pre-order now and receive early shipping (a week before release date). This limited box will not be available in stores.
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Andrew Dickson meets Gary Hustwit
July 21st, 2007Andrew Dickson of the Guardian interviews ‘Helvetica’ director Gary Hustwit.
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Helvetica: NYC Premiere
April 6th, 2007Well I just got back from the NYC premiere of Helvetica, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit, and it was great. Very well done. The film gives you some great insight from designers on how the world has been affected by this great font. The movie features Massimo Vignelli, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Danny van den Dungen, Neville Brody, Wim Crouwel, Michael C. Place and more.
One of the most interesting points of the movie is the whole Modernism vs Expermiental argument. Legends like Vignelli and Crouwel expressed their passions for Modernism and how the influx of typefaces, especially the more “grunge” fonts, have ruined typography. Something I personally I agree with. I was pretty shocked how Stefan Sagmeister and David Carson blatantly trashed Modernism and pretty much Helvetica itself, calling them both “boring”. As a designer I really don’t see how you can say Modernism and Helvetica are boring, even if you don’t like that specific style you can still appreciate it. Just like how I don’t particularly like Bob Dylans music but I totally understand the impact it has had and I appreciate it. Anyways, I do have less respect for Carson and Sagmeister after this movie and honestly I don’t think they do great work to begin with, but that’s just me. I do understand why they are respected and I respect that.
After the movie they had a nice Q&A panel with Vignelli, Hoefler, Frere-Jones, Hustwit and some other dude who’s name I forgot. I then met Hustwit and Vignelli and had them sign my poster like a dorky fan that I am. I had a really great time and I think every graphic design/typographer should see this movie, even if you are one of those people that hates Helvetica.