Meanwhile #221
Put your things in and behave like an artist.
Type Archived – the definitive account of the legendary Type Archive, providing a stunning visual tour of traditional typefounding, tracing the origins of typography and the printed word – is now crowdfunding at Volume. Had the pleasure of visiting the Archive a few years back, and it was incredible, so this should be GOOD.
Hand-bound books, honest stories and photography as evidence – design and book-making studio Zone6 is putting narrative-driven documentary photography at the front of its print runs.
Breaks are for wannabe writers. Time and time again, I hear the laments of the undisciplined crying out, “Oh, I need to clear my head.” Ridiculous. You need to resist the siren song of temptation emanating from your bladder or the dog scratching at the backdoor or the pain radiating from your chronic carpal tunnel and get down to work.
How to write 100,000 words per day, every day.
David Pearson has ‘grammed a fantastic selection of Spektrum books designed by Lothar Reher between 1968 and 1993 for the German publisher Volk und Welt. Never seen these before and now I want all of them.
“Rampant consumerism has consumed us” – how queuing for stuff became just as important as buying it.
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker announces The Orchid synthesizer, a new songwriting tool, ideas machine and dust-gathering object of bleepy bloopy technolust.
Animauteur1 Don Hertzfeldt on using Photoshop:
You don’t know what you’re not allowed to do. I still don’t know, but I’ve felt better about myself because I have spoken to people who are in technical positions in cinema who are like, “Yeah, I don’t know what half this stuff does either.” I think it’s a sign of good software where you don’t need to. A sign of good software to me is it’s intuitive, and you can put your things in, and hopefully behave like an artist and make a mess and not break things. The downside is when you realize there’s something you could have done easier a long time ago.
… from this excellent Slate interview.
All the World’s a Stage, the new David Campany-curated retrospective of William Klein’s photography at Lisbon’s MAAT, looks wonderful.
If like me you’ve been given very clear instructions to not ask Santa for yet more books to arrange in neat piles around the house, Creative Boom’s annual gift guide is always a good place to look for alternative stocking fillers.
The Boom’s bluesky starter pack is also worth a click. Or you could just follow me.
That is all.
Yeah maybe don’t hold your breath waiting for that one to catch on Daniel.