Michael Bierut

Born Slippy is one of the best needle drops in movie history

Power is out on the east side of Cape May Point

Todd is God

Lots, but my three biggest "holy sh*t!" moments in a first-run movie theater were
Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981)
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
and
Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1984)
At that last one, I left the theater, bought another ticket, and watched it straight through again

That prosecutor assigned by Jeanine Pirro who failed to get a single grand jury indictment against those six Democratic lawmakers last week has been mocked for having a side gig as a "dance photographer," but actually his pictures are rather nice stevenv873.smugmug.com

People can dismiss stuff like this as nothing more than charming and easy-to-do stunts, but it’s amazing that no one has thought to do them since LaGuardia. Having a mayor who actually seems to love his city counts for a lot

The disappearing art gallery in your post office The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?

What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?

What if I told you that I found them?

A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

That’s the song I’ve always associated with taking our firstborn to college; now I will have to think of potato chip farming 😢

Vignelli's design was a collage of every immigrant community foreign language newspaper he could find in New York on a single day. State Dept officials reviewed the design, disapproved of some of the headlines, & demanded they be replaced. Vignelli refused, and the poster was never published.

Massimo Vignelli, The Melting Pot, 1975 (rejected proposal to celebrate the US Bicentennial)

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West Side Story > Romeo and Juliet
Jesus Christ Superstar > The New Testament
I really believe this

Saul Bass, 1964

Close, that’s a Seymour Chwast

Surprising and true!

Boston-based art and design collective Silence Dogood takes its name from one of Benjamin Franklin's pseudonyms, and its typographic approach from Franklin's era of printing

The end credits for the season finale of #Severance were turned into a dazzling Saul Bass homage by the show's title typography designer, Teddy Blanks of ChipsNY

When exactly did Tork come out of nowhere and achieve a virtual monopoly in the paper products dispensing space? Just asking questions

Poster for Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design, designed by Jacqueline Casey, photo by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1982

When Amber Asay invited me on her podcast Women Designers You Should Know, I had one request: can we please do Jacqueline Casey, the in-house designer at MIT who brought European modernism to the USA one campus event poster at a time?
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That's a poster that Woody Pirtle of Pentagram did in 1988 for Amnesty International in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Woody died last Sunday at 81.

In "Final Cut," the book about auteurist director Michael Cimino's making of "Gates of Heaven," a production so disastrous that it practically brought down United Artists, there is a funny passage where they remember that the movie he really wanted to make was The Fountainhead

Not yet! But not surprised by the F-head influence. Rand picked architecture as the subject explicitly because it sat at the intersection of so many things: art v business, vision v compromise etc. And movie directors like to think they occupy that same position.

Not the first time someone has rewritten your 2012 story, not plagiarism but in an ironic way a demonstration of the basic thesis

Yes, I clicked on "The interview that made me want to quit my job" and could not for the life of me see what the point was. Now we know, I guess

TIL that Adrian Brody's mother is the legendary photographer Sylvia Plachy

I just adore an all-type book cover. Here are three favorites from Matt Dorfman's annual Ten Best list in the New York Times Book Review, by Arsh Raziuddin, Chantal Jahchan and Na Kim www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...

Lester Beall with Charles Goslin, The Connecticut General Style Book and Some Notes on Typographic Design for the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, 1958. Images from the amazing thisisdisplay.org

Doggett's papers have just been made available to researchers at Yale's Haas Family Library library.yale.edu/news/papers-...

Terminal routing signs at Houston International Airport

Standardized United Airlines branding at Tampa International Airport

Doggett and her wayfinding plans for Jacksonville International Airport

Jane Davis Doggett, a Yale MFA graduate who studied under Albers and Rand, began work in the late 1950s that basically invented the wayfinding language of the modern airport we all know today, from color-coded terminal routes to the standardization of carrier name displays. She died last year at 93.

Poster by Jacqueline Casey promoting coffee hour at MIT's Ashdown Dining Room, red background with eight geometrically stylized cups with black coffee

Jacqueline Casey, poster for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979