Enchanting stop motion video directed by Vincent Pianina and Lorenzo Papace from Le Petit Écho Malade for a song called Østersøen that was also written, composed, and recorded by Papace for his band Ödland off the album Sankta Lucia.
TOMS has recently debuted their limited edition ‘Movember’ shoes to help bring attention to men’s cancer. For those of you not familiar with Movember, it is essentialy where men grow their facial hair out for 30 straight days in order to bring awareness and raise funds for men’s cancer with an emphasis on Prostate Cancer seeing the large number of men affected by it. These limited edition silhouettes feature an embroidered mustache on them, and the proceeds will be donated to the Movember Foundation.
‘Extremities’, by Eli Stonberg
Music - Blackbird Blackbird “Pure”
Director of Photography: Ross Riege
Skateboarding - Aryeh Kraus
Here is the director’s cut of a new campaign for eyewear company Oliver Peoples shot by photographer Lisa Eisner, featuring Devendra Banhart and his girlfriend Rebecca Schwartz.
Eisner sought to cast a genuine couple in homage to French New Wave classics like Godard’s Une Femme Mariée which were able to elicit chemistry unparalleled by actors. The film was shot in architect John Lautner’s 1961 Los Angeles creation, the Rainbow House, to the sounds of Banhart’s “Brindo” from 2009′s What Will We Be.
You shouldn’t forget the elegant selection of eyewear on show.
Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton swaps the studio for the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France, with a luminous after hours short starring Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes. The electrifying film sees Hughes light up the snow-covered French hills in a bespoke L.E.D.-enveloped suit courtesy of designer and electronics whizz John Spatcher. Music composed by Shervin Shaeri.
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.
Jason Munn, was recently commissioned by Alamo Drafthouse to design a series of posters for their cinematic Texas Monthly Rolling Roadshow. The series focuses on films that take place in Texas.
They say QuaDror is a new space truss geometry that unfolds manifold design initiatives and can adapt to various conditions and configurations. I say QuaDror is just magic.
Wim Crouwel interviewed by Dezeen at the Andaz Hotel in London on 28 March.
The Design Museum celebrates the prolific career of the Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel in this, his first UK retrospective. Regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s.
Spanning over 60 years, this exhibition covers Crouwel’s rigorous design approach and key moments in his career including his work for design practice Total Design, the identity for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, as well as his iconic poster, print, typography and lesser known exhibition design. The exhibition will explore Crouwel’s innovative use of grid-based layouts and typographic systems to produce consistently striking asymmetric visuals.
Exhibition, talks & events, from 30 March - 3 July, at the Design Museum, London.
