Saturday 4th February 2012
We have this classic gramophone in the studio at the moment on loan while we research for a new client. Gladly we also have a selection of 78s which we can enjoy while we work. This track is Basin Street Blues. All will become clear.
Looking in a thrift store at the camera section we found this old Polaroid. We have no idea how this image was made but what a serendipitous discovery, because if we would have designed one, it would look exactly like this.
Especially for the team at Grafik magazine this is one of our favourites. It’s almost Friday, enjoy.
We showed you the exclusive photos before but now we have the video. We only wish we had been in Oslo to see it ourselves. Congratulations to our old friends Daniel and Josefin.
Josefin Johansson presented
FIAT LUX in collaboration with:
Light Designer: Daniel Sørensen
Audio Visual Artist : Ricardo Del Pozo
Arranger: M.A.D (Music, Art, Design)
Project manager: Anne Cecilie Bodin
Our favourite new (old) film! More charming than ever, James Stewart plays Elwood P. Dowd, an endlessly pleasant & delightfully eccentric bachelor living in a small town that isn’t quite aware that its newest citizen is a 6’3” white rabbit named “Harvey,” that only certain people can see. After supposedly meeting this rabbit, Dowd’s sanity is put into question by his equally eccentric sister. Made in 1950 this film hasn’t dated at all, we won’t tell you if you actually get to see the rabbit or not though. The first image here is clever, the second is kind of creepy, in a good way.
A clip of Dieter Rams from the 2009 film Objectified. We recommend watching but if you rather read here is what he says, it is as applicable to graphics as it is product design. “In my experience users react positively when things are clear and understandable. That’s what particularly bothers me today, the arbitrariness and thoughtlessness with which many things are produced and brought to market. Not only in the sector of consumer goods, but also in architecture, in advertising. We have too many unnecessary things everywhere.”
We are puzzled by this video, is the machine real or CG? How is the camera moving around like that? Does it matter? It’s fun to watch and a reminder of classics like Peter Gabriel’s Sledge Hammer. We hear that the video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Syyn Labs over the course of several months. Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs.