Lenka, Heart Skips
Video for Lenka’s Heart Skips a Beat.
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Marian’s Valentines
Fresh from my mailbox: A set of Valentines from the great Marian Bantjes.
And if you haven’t already, be sure to snag her incredible I Wonder.
Traffic’s ‘analogue kalender’
‘In daily life and at work, the analogue production world is far away for the majority of people’
This year’s calendar from Thomas Krug and Traffic goes back to basics.
Less digital, more tactile. Screen printed art punctuated by laser dies and perfs. Each month has ‘show thru’ to the next.
2011 artists include Wlodzimierz Szwed (type), Dirk Pokoj (ink, paint, screen), Gisela Berger (pastose, acrylic, graphite) and John T. Manshaupt (red chalk, Chinese ink/acrylic).
For more about the Traffic Agency go here.
(And here’s another look at last year’s offering)
Thanks to Thomas Krug; and to Carrie Svozil for holding this year’s award-winning kalender for the camera
Doret’s type
I have one little parallel with Michael Doret.
I like to do type revivals – interpretations – of vernacular lettering that we often take for granted.
My Martini at Joe’s fonts are all about this. I based them on my favorite restaurants, the Joe’s of Northern California.
And Doret based his fantastic Deliscript on signage lettering of world famous Canter’s Deli on Fairfax in LA. This led to him developing their catering truck. All elements of an incredible body of work. [Read more →]
Feiffer
Passed along books are great.
That’s how we ended up with dog-eared copies of Jules Feiffer’s first books, collections of his beat era comic strips for The Village Voice.
Feiffer did his weekly loose, sketchy strip for 42 years – eventually canceling it when he felt the audience just wasn’t there anymore. [Read more →]
Allen comic strip
‘Woody, the pen-and-ink protagonist, was angst-ridden, flawed, fearful, insecure, inadequate, pessimistic, urban, single, lustful, rejected by women’
My first ever exposure to Woody Allen came from a comic strip. One that floated around the daily paper.
The very neurotic Inside Woody Allen was drawn by cartoonist Stuart Hample – and ran in newspapers from 1976-84.
The author explains what it was and how it happened here.
Retrospective book available here.
Hample passed away in 2010. Career overview here.
Allen
‘The Many Faces of Woody Allen’ by Brandon Schaefer. Prints available here.
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