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Typographic Movie Posters

Designer Able Parris impressed us with some recent sketches for documentary film posters.

These remind me of this brilliant poster for Stanley Kubrick's 2001.

Sketch for a movie poster: 'Riding the Rails'
Sketch for a movie poster: 'The Thin Blue Line'
Sketch for a movie poster: 'A Brief History of Time'
Sketch for a movie poster: 'Horizon'
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PaulJul 1, 2009
 

GOOD Transparencies Archive

GOOD Magazine's transparency archive at Flickr is a feast for the eyes and candy for the brain. Check it out.

Once weekly, GOOD Magazine posts an infographic, or a "transparency", visualizing everything from the amount of our national acreage controlled by major retail chains (below) to the length of time people spend on popular email clients. They have now created a flickr archive of them all.

GOOD Transparency: Student Debt
Student Debt: GOOD and Futurefarmers look at the ballooning student debt in the United States.
GOOD Transparency: Retail Store Space
Retail Store Space: The biggest retailer in the world covers an area larger than Manhattan. GOOD and Futurefarmers look at "the amazing amount of space occupied by a few ubiquitous chains."
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PaulJun 12, 2009
 

But Does it Float?

After a long week at DLB, I thought I'd take a breather to share the wonderful But Does it Float, a minimalist gallery of art, architecture, and graphic design that has quickly become one of my favorite destinations for inspirado.

Macro view of But Does it Float

Macro view of But Does it Float
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NickApr 10, 2009
 

Oblique Strategies on Twitter

In need of strategic Inspirado? With the Oblique Strategies feed on Twitter, you can get worthwhile dilemmas delivered on the hour.

Oblique Strategies is a set of special cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt whose purpose is to provide creative inspiration.

Oblique Strategies cards

In an interview, Eno describes them thusly:

The Oblique Strategies evolved from me being in a number of working situations when the panic of the situation - particularly in studios - tended to make me quickly forget that there were others ways of working and that there were tangential ways of attacking problems that were in many senses more interesting than the direct head-on approach. If you're in a panic, you tend to take the head-on approach because it seems to be the one that's going to yield the best results. Of course, that often isn't the case - it's just the most obvious and - apparently - reliable method. The function of the Oblique Strategies was, initially, to serve as a series of prompts which said, "Don't forget that you could adopt *this* attitude," or "Don't forget you could adopt *that* attitude."

Interested? If forty-five bucks for a deck sounds steep, you can get the next best thing with the new Oblique Strategies feed on Twitter. You can even pick up a few strategies from the man himself by following Brian Eno.

Oblique Strategies and Brian Eno Twitter feeds

It’s like having your own Magic 8-Ball of cryptic design wisdom!

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NickJan 13, 2009
 

Andy Gilmore

Your moment of Zen today comes from Rochester artist Andy Gilmore.

I love Andy Gilmore. Something about him reminds me of Stanley Kubrick.

Picture by Andy Gilmore
Picture by Andy Gilmore
Picture by Andy Gilmore
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PaulNov 26, 2008
 

Lab Partners

Lab Partners is a San Francisco-based shop, specializing in retro-inspired screen printed designs.

Check out their blog for more vintage screen-print inspirado

Print by Lab Partners
Print by Lab Partners
Print by Lab Partners
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NickNov 21, 2008
 

Dutch Fields

Rather than writing a blog post today, DLB decides to stop and smell the flowers.

This Wednesday, enjoy a moment of Zen. Take a look these aerial shots of Northern Netherlands tulip fields in full bloom. It's like a wall of those great mid-sixties Gene Davis pictures.

The stunning tulip fields of the northern Netherlands (1/2)
The stunning tulip fields of the northern Netherlands (2/2)

Via.

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PaulNov 5, 2008
 

Eve Duhamel

Eve Duhamel is a Canadian illlustrator, painter, and videographer working in Berlin.

An illustration by Eve Duhamel'

I love her use of bright colors and marker as a medium. The texture, combined with the repetition of shapes makes this series of illustrations simple, yet rich.

(This particular piece is my Twitter background, until I can find the time to make a huge version of the DLB guillotine)

Via.

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NickSep 23, 2008
 
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