Meanwhile #101
Communication, frustration and elation.
Inspired by the incredible work of digital colourist Marina Amaral (get your hands on her book The Colour of Time if you haven’t already), I’ve been learning how to colourise black and white photographs, with some pleasing results that have found their way into other aspects of my work. For example, once I’d brought this Leigh Wiener portrait of Grace Kelly to chromatic life, I had to go one step further and turn it into a poster for 1956 film The Swan. Another one for the portfolio.
Very looking forward to design crush Christopher Doyle’s Typographic Circle talkon 29 April. He’ll be discussing “communication, frustration and elation”, but mostly I want to hear about that time he sold a piece of Nutri-Grain cereal that looked like ET for a thousand dollars.
What else, what else? Afrofuturist LEGO sculptures by Ekow Nimako; how in-house designers keep Wikipedia weird; Wang Zhi-Hong on his shifting approach of hiding information in design; The Public Domain Review’s new book has hit its funding goal on Volume and looks fab; Daily Heller interviews collagist and illustrator Najeebah Al-Ghadban; Austin Kleon on the magic of paper dictionaries; I want to eat every single cover of Port’s tenth anniversary issue; loving Nick Parker’s one galley, one thing, one minute idea.
That is all.