‘Welcome to our city – to our world – of books. This is where we live.’
Produced in stop-motion by Apt Studio and Asylum Films for 4th Estate Publishers’ 25th Anniversary. Details (and making of videos) here.
Found via Recon’s Blog
‘A letter mosaic of a japanese idol’
The photomosiac work of Charis Tsevis.
Click image for larger view/jump.
Polariod 195, ID-UV, Black Canyon City, AZ
Photo by moominsean. Flickr here. Blog here.
Found via Planetary Folklore
‘Nobody ever mentions this. You can read about how Phase IV starts where 2001 left off and all that, and it’s true enough.’ -the looniverse
Trailer for Phase IV (1974) above. Directed by Saul Bass.
Saw this as a kid. Had nightmares for years. Intense visuals. Ants. Frightening, killer ants.
I have it on DVD, still haven’t watched it tho.
TRIO was a brilliantly odd cable network that sort of ended up being shuffled about and sort of vanished from tee vee in an acquisition by NBC that included similar net Bravo and a bunch of other things. That’s the short way to put it. In all, NBC ended up channeling its money and energy into Bravo.
Some of TRIO’s wares included Brilliant But Canceled, re-airings of great television programs that were too smart for their own good. Today, TRIO lives as a web archive (with a link back to Bravo, of course) – and Brilliant But Canceled is now a web blog.
In all this, Scott Stowell‘s open designed the look of the network, with design studio No.17 creating the logo; filmmaker Chris Wilcha and music supervisors Agoraphone along for the ride.
Official TRIO page here. Open’s portfolio (with videos) here. AIGA TRIO design article here.
They were brilliant, tho canceled.
Here’s a trilogy of videos for Swedish electro-pop group The Knife.
Found via Victoria Arriaga
Star Wars vs. Saul Bass (2007)
Star Wars vs. Saul Bass (above) is described as ‘If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it ‘might’ look like this.’ The animation was created as part of a school project.
A more recent mashup is Tron vs. Saul Bass (below).
Tron vs. Saul Bass (2009)
The designer has also made a bunch of matching posters, sort of how Bass used to.
Located on the corner of 16th and Q Streets in Sacramento stands a colorful pole sculpture whose history is tied to that of legendary designer Saul Bass.
And back in 2006, former ADAC president Michael Kennedy dug up a ton of history/detail on the construct – which he compiled in an article for the club’s newsletter.
I’m reposting that article here.
Today, the sculpture is a nice punctuation for Sacramento’s coolest restaurant, Hot Italian. A study in stark black and white interior and graphic design, Hot Italian sits directly across the street.
Recently, I took some night shots.
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