Meanwhile #151
Your weekly supply of art and design links.
— Another … thing. More of these on insta.
— “Can we go beyond ‘it’s good in a thumbnail’ to analyze the hold blob covers continue to have? Who are the Alvin Lustigs (and David Wilsons) doing great covers these days? How do the economics of book design (aka what designers are paid, if they are gig workers or on staff ) figure in?” – Fab post by
on book cover design and homogeneity.— This week in I MUST HAVE THIS CAMERA news, I’ve decided I simply must have a Fujifilm X-T51. Mmmm dials. Curious to see pixel shift in action – I suspect super high resolution images with definition and clarity is going to be an important weapon in the battle against soupy AI.
— The wikipedia entry for Dennis Duncan’s Index, A History of the made me chuckle.
— It’s only taken 31 years, but dear sweet actual lord look at the new Batman Returns shadowbox from LEGO. Still trying to get my head around the fact Keaton is back in the cowl once again.2
— “Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted” – think we’ve found the definitive tweet of the year from Karl Sharro.
— Amy Goodchild explores a far more interesting past, the mad-inventor era of computer art from the 1950s and 60s; featuring oscilloscopes, plotters, Singer sewing machines, stereograms, ballerinas, punch cards and poem fields.
— Loving this mouthy tee from Risotto.
— Somewhere between Eleanor Crow’s shopfronts and Simon Stålenhag’s scandi-fi landscapes, Andrew McIntosh subverts romanticism in his haunting paintings of dilapidated shops relocated to the Scottish Highlands.
— If you need even more hyperlinks, it’s my duty to once again remind you of the existence of things magazine, sifting the internet for goodness like nobody else.
Of course I would gladly settle for the X-T30 II should a Fujifilm representative or acquaintance/relative thereof be reading this.
That was me in the cinema making a high-pitched squealing sound when he said “you wanna get nuts, let's get nuts” in the new Flash trailer.