Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 5:12 PM Photographer Tony Kelly directed this video featuring mini breakdancers Jalen Testerman and Lil Demon, for American Apparel. One minute and 18 seconds of pure "feel-good".
American Apparel, Tony Kelly 
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 12:41 AM 
Selected as Cover of the Day, June 13, 2011 by the Society of Publication Designers. I wonder why? Probably because it's SPOT ON!
Magazines, Texas Monthly Monday, June 13, 2011 at 8:03 PM In anticipation of the 4th Season premiere in about two weeks (June 26th), I thought it'd be appropriate to post this little masterpiece. Especially since I never posted it before.
Anyone else excited about this?
True Blood Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 3:04 PM 
Chanel's Makeup Creative Director, Peter Philips, created this awesome (stop motion?) animation for the new Chanel Makeup ad. Makeup robots? Why, yes of course!
Well played, Chanel. Very well played.
(via ouffou)
Chanel, Peter Philips Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 4:42 PM 
Vitsœ is a furniture manufacturer for the past 50 years. Timelessly designed by Dieter Rams.
Dieter Rams, Vitsœ Monday, June 6, 2011 at 12:12 AM 
This post might not "touch" everyone, but the typographically aware and design aficionados will definitely feel a certain warmth.
Linotype: The Film is a documentary film about the Linotype casting machine. The Linotype casting machine revolutionized printing and communication at a time when the process of casting and printing text was a manual and time-consuming procedure. What the Linotype essentially did, was to set a full line of type (Line o' Type) instead of having it done by hand, character by character (or matrix by matrix in this case).
I remember trying to manually set a body of text when I was college and I found it extremely hard, frustrating and stressful. So, I can imagine (and I envy) the enthusiasm and admiration these people bear for the Linotype. I mean, if something came along and took away a painfully dreadful procedure of my work (hello, quotations and invoicing) I would worship it the exact same way, if not more.
Post a Comment | Share Article | Email Article | in Design, Graphic Design World, Movies, Typography Documentary, Linotype Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 4:07 PM 
Despite her stunts as a drunken/disrespectful/screwed-up childhood-star-went-bad, I truly do believe that Lindsay Lohan is a well-above-skilled actress and one of the most striking faces of her silver screen generation.
Lindsay Lohan, like every "misunderstood" and controversial star of the past, has a fair amount of avant garde followers as well. One of them is Richard Phillips, who decided to feature Lohan's face in his 90-second video (co-directed by videographer Taylor Steele) which will air at the Venice Biennale as a part of "Commercial Break". I personally like love the resulting imagery.
Let's hope that this will mark a great start to Lohan's career reboot. Am I the only one getting an Avedon-Monroe vibe out of all this?
Gagosian, Lindsay Lohan, Richard Phillips Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 2:16 AM 
Moon Life in collaboration with United Nude created these walk-on-the-surface-of-the-moon high heels consisting of carbon fibre, leather and wire elements.
I will dare to say that I do find these to be very interesting, (and now everyone jumps to lynch me). However, the contrast between the chunkiness of the frame and the flimsiness of the wire (which will essentially be holding the whole thing on the feet) gives me a sense of uncertainty. Then again, I'm, obviously, not the high heel type so I wouldn't know; then again, I did take advanced physics in high-school.
The shoes will ship (this summer) in a flat-form package and will be put together (IKEA style, I guess) by the buyer.
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Moon Life, United Nude Friday, May 20, 2011 at 1:34 PM 
I will not get into detail on this Alexander McQueen show currently running at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The fact that this is happening is old-news actually.
I chose to post about this (now) because I was blown away after seeing the pictures of the show, the promotional studio photography of the Selected Objects by Sølve Sundsbø, and the amazing blog the people of the Met set-up for the show. In the Selected Objects section, each piece is presented with an accompanying (many times accurately prophetic) quote from McQueen's interviews over the years.
Also, back to the photography; Sundsbø, or whoever came up with the mannequin concept should be given an award! It couldn't be more eerily appropriate, and perfectly fitting to McQueen's body of work! Giving kudos is clearly something I'm not entitled to do, so I'll just humbly bow.
Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 6:23 PM 
With everything going on, this and that and the other thing, I totally forgot to "celebrag" about MemRants turning two about a month ago!
Despite the fact that I am sort of slug-posting lately, I have not ceased to love the whole blogging process. I was thinking of how great it feels when a good post is composed, and the satisfaction of hitting "Save & Close" in Squarespace's post editor this morning and it hit me, one month later.
So, happy 2Y+1month: The online scrapbook continues!
Memrants