“I should not have studied graphic design, I shouldn’t even be a graphic designer but I learned the language. Then I spent the next ten years learning how to lie.”
Just before Christmas, Peter Saville gave a talk at the Architectural Association in London.
Here are a few highlights:
Before embarking properly on the new year, it is only right to pause and reflect a little upon some of the great (and one not so great) music videos of 2006. Since we started our blog in October we’ve been feeding you regular slices of promo brilliance but we thought that we’d take this opportunity to do a brief rundown of some of our faves from the whole year, in case you missed them first time round. There is nothing terribly scientific about this list, and we don’t have nearly enough room here to tell you all the ones that we liked, but here we go, in no particular order…
We begin with Tom Gauld and Dirty UK’s bleak but beautiful animated promo for Ed Harcourt’s Visit from the Dead Dog.
Surveillance Means Security is a collection of posters from Micah Wright, an animator turned writer whose satirical remixes of WWI and WWII propaganda posters have previously been published in The New York Times, The Guardian and The Boston Globe.
Q: How do you make a fruit-flavoured, chewy bar – primarily made out of soya – appealing?
A: Get Airside to make a groovy advert…
How Design Can Save Democracy. The AIGA redesigns the US election ballot paper, highlighting just how bad the current design is. (Link: DO)
Artist Cai Guo-Qiang , director of visual and special effects at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, answers some of the controversies over the opening cermony (link: Artnet)
"Please Do It At Home." Interesting signage from the Tokyo Metro. (Link: Coudal)
Illustrator Paul Davis is Adrian Shaughnessy's guest on his Resonance FM show, Graphic Design On The Radio - today (Friday 22 August) at 4pm
Say it the Sewell way with the Sewell Sampler! (Link: Culture Shot)
The world's largest record collection – the life's work of Paul Mawhinney of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – is up for sale. Bidding starts at $3 million...
Michael C. Place stars in this new commercial for Pritt's correction fluid products and creates a lovely mural in the process. Can you tell what it is yet?...
It's Pop It's Art are running a competition to find a winning print design illustrating the lyrics to Edwin Starr's classic track, War
The Chemical Brothers are asking fans to submit photographs and short movie clips to potentially be used in their next video for track Midnight Madness
Paul McCarthy's giant dog turd crashes into a children's home
Up on pitchfork.tv for one more day, The Queen is Dead documentary on The Smith's classic album from 1986. Oh the squabbles...
Channel 4 and the Golden Joystick Awards are asking web-based flash game developers to submit their unbranded games in a new category of the GJA
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the enormous 17 mile long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests, apparently. Check out the pictures
Are you a designer that makes and sells your own prints or products? FL@33's next book will collect the grooviest products Made & Sold (working title of said book) by designers, illustrators and artists
Why that would be Birmingham, Alabama. UK city council mistakenly uses an image of the American city in a leaflet thanking midlanders for their recycling prowess
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