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What's All This Then?
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Wednesday Edition
Two designers, 15 minutes per volley, the whole world watching.Revisit the last two seasons of Layer Tennis.
Coudal Partners
The Museum Of Online Museums
Check the exhibitions now showing at The MoOM. It's a big update with lots of variety. Plus, the second episode of our documentary series The Curators is coming soon. Consider joining our quasi-prestigious Board of Directors. There are virtually no benefits, snootiness or responsibilities, and as an added bonus, it isn't even tax free!
Stuff About Stanley Kubrick
I Am Putting Myself
to the Fullest Possible Use, Which Is All I Think That Any Conscious Entity Can Ever Hope To Do
For over ten years we've been collecting links and tossing them into various categories. As you probably have noticed, we're a bit of obsessed with a certain film director. Check our big, messy "Stuff About Stanley Kubrick" archive.
From The CP Labs
Shift Option Rinse
Can you really clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher? With the help of the RinseCam 9000, Michele created a short film to find out, Shift Option Rinse.
From Field Notes Brand
Northerlies
This film documents our latest project from the workshop. More on our newest limited release, "The Northerly Edition" at Field Notes. 3packs of this bright white and silver release are now sold out but there are still a few available as part of a COLORS subscription.
Copy Goes Here A Film
Inaction Figures
"How do you spell courage?" For the proper effect, check the trailer first and then please take a few minutes (eleven actually) to watch our short feature film about words, pictures and bravery, Copy Goes Here.
Props Face Time
Classic Display Faces That Deserve Love
Herb Lubalin and Tony DiSpigna's 1974 release for ITC, Serif Gothic doesn't get the kind of attention that sparked a recent (and overdone) Avant Garde revival but it speaks for itself when set tight, in all-caps for a short declarative headline, especially one that needs a sort of non whiz-bangy science-fiction feel. Suggested pairing: Univers 65 Bold.
Oh This Old Thing?
Button Button
So you know. We've seen a little pick-up in Pinsetter orders lately so we thought we'd let you know that Pinsetter is still, um, setting pins.
A CP Film In Five Parts
Laboratory Conditions
RIP Ed Grothus who we met while we were in Los Alamos, New Mexico. We were looking for locations for one film project and on the way we discovered a lot more about the town and its people than we bargained for. So we made a different film and called it Laboratory Conditions. We have just reformatted it and are showing it in five episodes.
This Plus This Equals That
Are You There Godsmack? It’s Me Margaret
This is the sort of thing that Twitter is especially good for, but a washroom full of chalkboard walls works too. A while ago we hosted a quick contest called Booking Bands in which we asked people to combine the name of a book with the name of a band. We received thousands of entries, posted a ton of them and then randomly selected three and sent those people the book and a CD from the band that they mashed together. The process of coming up with funny or unexpected associations in this contest became a central part of a presentation that JC gave at SXSW.
A Cautionary Tale
To Sweet Hereafter
Heed this well, young costumed beggars.
In Fast Company, Good Company
Modern Americana
A lovely photo by Chris Mueller with prop styling by Elise McMahon for the "Modern Americana" section of Fast Company's just-released United States of Design issue, which is also available as an innovative iPad app. We're more than a little excited to have our Field Notes Brand products included in this curated collection of Made in the USA products. Thanks for that.
Not Quite so
Fresh Signals
A look at yesterday's Ring of Fire eclipse.
For SD, Law & Order & Food.
From photographer Tadao Cern: Blow Job.
So you know: how to build a Keezer.
Building the USS Enterprise - the real ship - over the next 20 years.
Beer and Barbecue Pairings, from the folks at Epicurious.
A Chicago Sojourn takes a trip down Lincoln Avenue's Motel Row. That same street back home in Phoenix was/is Van Buren.
For MS, who had no idea what BB and I were talking about at lunch today: the trailer for Disorderlies. And to somehow tie everything together: the music vid for The Beach Boys and The Fat Boys' Wipeout.
Great animated GIFs by mr. div.
Just in time for this weekend's NATO summit here in Chicago, A.V. Club Chicago has a great interview regarding the city's "long history of anti-protestor violence."
Scrabble Coasters.
GALEX: The Andromeda Galaxy.
The top 10 tech troll catchphrases.
"I hate getting assigned to shoot baseball, so I decided to mess around instead. More info here.
Zulkey's interview with Gene Honda, announcer for the Blackhawks and the White Sox.
Local note: What's better than an Art Opening in Berwyn!? An art opening featuring the awesome Mr. Walters! (tonight)
Sometimes, a new friend is good. Sometimes, there are limits.
"This is my personal site. There are many like it, but this one is mine." —Z. Right on.
What's that? Just my breakfast returning to say hi. Via Cynical C.
Speaking of dead french poets, Do you like Paul Verlaine?
West Green Road, N15.
Dan Grzeca rules: the Velvet Underground Live at the Grave of Charles Baudelaire, September 28, 1968, Cimetiere du Montparnasse, Paris, France. Sweet, I was there but I didn't get a poster.
ChibiDashi is a cute little box for jewelry or other small trinkets. Via Spoon & Tamago.
Nice overview of Poster Design in Poland, 1890 - 1970. Via Design Info.
For BB: the trailer for Kath & Kimderella.
MS, I prefer the mighty Scoot.net scooter rally patch archive.
Ben Kay can't figure out Nike's ad for Euro 2012. We're completely stumped too.
Images from Jean Errard's Fortification Réduicte Art and Démonstrée (Paris, 1600), a seminal work in fortification theory.
If you're able to find this Punk compilation album from the early-90s, you'll get all the punk classics from bands like Crowded House and the Eurythmics.
For BB: the Scooter Patch Archive.
When the label gets warm the snowflake turns into a sun. Via Brand New.
Sounds of Aronofsky.
Local note: tonight Gapers Block and The Coop present 8x8, an experiment in writing and design, featuring a whole plethora of FotA including Kevin Guilfoile, Claire Zulkey, Letterform, and Paul Octavious.
Big Week with Dan Benjamin, coming to the 5by5 Network in June.
Aqua-Velvet's Logo Collection: Part 2, Number Theory, 1960s/70. Here's Part 1. So simple. So great.
Sci-Fi-O-Rama takes a trip through Creative Computer Graphics by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, from 1984.
Fat men, baseball, and early twentieth century postcards.
Animated miniatures promoting the Oslo Airport expansion by Marc Reisberg. Beautiful, via Motionographer.
Gil Elvgren's iconic pin-up girls and the models he used for reference.
"The Kowloon Walled City was a singular Hong Kong phenomenon: 33,000 people living in over 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, built without the contributions of a single architect, ungoverned by Hong Kong's safety and health regulations, covering one square city block in a densely populated neighborhood near the end of the runway at Kai Tak airport."
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What all those little square icons in Fresh Signals mean.
A post from our monthly guest editor. The complete
listing af all the people we owe favors can be found here.
We love these products so much we even paid for them.
A post with this icon may well end up in our Museum of Online Museums.
About Depth of Field.
Not to be missed.
A Friday Drink Link. Hic.
Film feed. Short attention span video theater.
Having to do with our Field Notes Brand.
What we just talked about at lunch.
A Thing We Made:Field Notes
Field Notes Brand memo Books and more. "I'm not writing it down to remember it later. I'm writing it down to remember it now." A CP/DDC joint.
Some Other Things We Made:
We hated the options available for custom packaging DVDs and CDs so we created a brand that gives creative professionals and hobbyists the tools to make great stuff. Here's a bit from the latest Jewelboxing weblog entry:
"Clients are always stunned at the result, almost to the point of being speechless, shocked that their faces are so artfully placed on a professional DVD cover. I couldn't be happier with Jewelboxing and I think I can say the same thing for my clients as well." Read the entire post.
Pinsetter: Spell with buttons.
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