Precious little gems in these Tuesday edition of Quipsologies.
One of the better-known photographers of America’s greatest art form, William Gottlieb, passed away last week. This iconic image of Thelonious Monk, as well as many others can be seen in this online collection at the Library of Congress.
So I guess I’ve been pronouncing his name wrong all these years… Announcing a new film about type designer Adrian Frutiger (aad-ri-aan froo-tee-ger).
Google’s motto “Do no evil” runs aground in the eyes of Juan Miro’s family.
Whoever designed this bag is a genius. [Via]
Once again, photography trumps all: as a service to the anti-Kyoto Bush administration, all the selfish asses with gas-guzzling SUVs, and pretty much everyone else in the developed world; the National Snow and Ice Data Center has compiled a special collection of photographs which pair late-19th/early-20th century photographs of Alaskan glaciers with more recent images.
I’ve learned that when a crowd of people listen to a presentation or watch a film, they don’t hear and see the same thing. Everything is filtered through the ‘frames’ of their worldview, what they understand to be true and believe to be right. — Dave Pollard on varying interpretations of March of the Penguins
Gossip + art = The Gallery of the Absurd
On-line store for Branch: sustainable design for living.
Open as of yesterday: “Work of Many Hands: The Art of Islamic Bookmaking,” at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Bloody fuckin’ wanker John Rotten narrates the podcast commentary for “AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion,” opening tomorrow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In true punk fashion, expect to see fancy hats by Philip Treacy.
Opening this Saturday: “Picasso as Book Illustrator” at the Legion of Honor, one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Imagine a spineless art director asking Picasso to change a color because the editor doesn’t like blue. Heh…
Eric Benson launches Re-Nourish, a site full of actionable tips, tools, and resources for sustainable graphic design. Re-Nourish was Benson’s MFA thesis from University of Texas at Austin. I’ve got some thoughts about it on Crit.
Typecast, the typography short, is awarded the Los Angeles Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary short. It plays for one night in New York this weekend.
Prepare your everybody has the tools now so they’re going to ruin us complaints, Google launches SketchUp the free 3-D rendering tool. Oh, nevermind, put those away and get out your there’s no mac version and my PowerPC-based laptop is depreciating at three times the rate now that Apple’s switched to Intel complaints.
This is a sentence that describes a hyperlink contained within itself to a website that describes unphotographable photographs. [Thanks Josh for the link.]
Fantasy exists, as demonstrated in the recent ad for Anagram Bookshop by the Italian firm kelleradv.
“We’re not happy about the fact that people are drawing on the poster, because other people then don’t get to see it clean,” Dude, you don’t give New Yorkers a poster with room to draw on and expect them not to. [Via]
And what’s better, people drawing on the poster or VH1 putting celebrity lips on it?
When a designer talks about the “craft” of typograpy, don’t believe a word they are saying unless they are referring to something like this… [Via]
Fun with with periods: Connect. Learn. Contribute. Grow. designerID. [Thanks to d.u.menon for the link]
An oldie but goodie that has grown tremendously since I first saw it a few years back, The Grocery List Collection. [Thanks to another Josh for the link]
And in case you have missed it: Winterhouse Institute and the AIGA present the inaugural Awards for Design Writing & Criticism.