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Ladislav Sutnar’s “Visual Design in Action”

This Kickstarter campaign aims to print a facsimile edition of Czech-born design giant Ladislav Sutnar’s long out of print “Visual Design in Action,” bringing it to contemporary audiences again. Long considered one of the most beautiful books on modern graphic design, it was written and designed by Sutnar and published over fifty years ago. I…

The New Yorker on “Age of Ultron”

I’m of the mind that Marvel’s incredibly successful string of comic book movies is both popularly overestimated and critically under-appreciated. On the one hand, though they’re generally entertaining and highly adroit at fan service, they’re not particularly well-made movies. They’re loud and dumb and generally lacking in artistry and any ambition other than making the…

Fast and Furious: From B-movie to A-list

I had my say about the “Fast & Furious” franchise earlier this month, before the latest installment, “Furious 7” bowed in theaters. (I saw it on opening weekend and it was as over-the-top and enjoyable as I had hoped.) I thought that was about as much “Fast & Furious” as this blog would ever really…

Besom Extended

This hand-drawn brush lettering font was designed (painted) by designer Krisjanis Mezulis of RIT Creative in Latvia. The letterforms themselves are spontaneous and handsome, but I was really taken with the way RIT presents the typeface’s specimens—as an extension of emphatically worked strokes of paint on a canvas, or as exquisitely tactile lettering on a…

An Interview with Rochelle King, Global VP of Design at Spotify

Spotify has done a remarkable job of remaking the music industry, but as a designer, I’ve found its past two years or so to be particularly interesting. Where the company itself has always been credited with being a transformative force, the aesthetics and usability of its products, at least in the beginning, were generally held…

Breakfast with the Adobe Comp CC Team

If you’re free the morning of next Tue 28 Apr and you’ll be in New York City, I invite you to join me and my collaborators from the Adobe Comp CC team at General Assembly in the Flatiron District. We’ll be serving breakfast and holding an open discussion about how design processes are changing in…

Ken Holder Retrospective

My father-in-law, Ken Holder, is an amazing painter who has produced a monumental body of work over the course of more than five decades. His œuvre spans many styles but I think of him as a prolific painter of landscapes—the landscapes of the American West, a region which is deeply embedded in his DNA (he…

Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll

This documentary by director John Pirozzi tells the tale of an era of popular music in Cambodia that occurred during the 1960s and early 1970s but that has since become nearly forgotten by history. Combining Western rock music with distinctly Southeast Asian melodies and rhythms, a generation of Cambodian youths created a singularly idiosyncratic form…

New York City’s MTA on Flickr

It seems almost quaint now to find a major organization maintaining one of these, but New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority seems pretty committed to its Flickr account. I’m grateful for it, too; instead of relatively small, low-resolution, square-cropped images with annoying faux vintage filters, we get lots of beautiful, high-resolution shots of the city’s…

Passport Index

Just spent ten minutes browsing Passport Index, a terrific gallery of passport covers from all over the world. These two, from New Zealand and Sweden, are my favorite. More at passportindex.org. + Share Facebook Twitter Google+