Phew. Just returned from a great week at DesignInquiry in Maine. (Some stuff already posted here.) Lots of talks by great designers/educators/thinkers, plus studio workshops (even an acting class; erp). I think my own stuff went across pretty well, and the students working with me produced some very interesting ideas. More soon.
There’s a scene early on in the movie Meet the Fockers where Ben Stiller and his bride-to-be fly off to see her parents. The establishing shot (above) cleverly reminds us exactly which city they’re leaving. Which brings us to the big, helpful sign: first, it was clearly comped in during post-production; and, second, it’s typeset [...]
I wrote a while back about a sign on Highway 401 that had a peculiar mistake in it – one letter had been mounted backwards. Which brings us to the HBO series Deadwood. Focusing on the premise that life was short – and largely unpleasant – in the new frontier towns of nineteenth century America, [...]
Sorting through some old, slightly damp boxes in my mother’s lock-up garage in England last month, I came across a huge billboard poster. I acquired it in the 1980s through a letter-writing campaign to several ad companies and couldn’t believe my luck when a man in a van showed up one hot day and asked [...]
