Links published in October 2006 — Most recent at top.
Cologne-Bonn Airport website. Graphic & Identity design par le studio swouiisse de Ruedi Baur. C’est pas nouveau mais j’l’avais complètement oublié celui-là. •
Yes yes yes yes yes. Best news today: Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe split. Portman, sort tes bas filets si tu veux me garder. (via Lagacé) •
Real-time crowd model based on continuum dynamics. The simulations feel surprisingly real. They manage to make the models adapt their path further ahead like we, humans, naturally do. •
Vous vous souvenez du tit jeu LineRider que j’ai linké y’a quelques semaines? J’ai appris hier que tous les gars de l’appart du chum de ma soeur y jouait sans cesse et checkait même tous les exemples vidéos de pistes LineRider sur YouTube. Y’en faut pas gros pour nous amuser. •
Excellent interview with Chris Bangle, chief of design for the BMW Group. Il dit des choses comme “I would suggest reading Sir Kenneth Clark’s The Nude and substituting the term “Car” for “Nude”…in about 5 chapters you will know all about Z4s and how they break away from the world of the everyday” ou encore “graphic by formal intonation”. Sweet. •
The car that reads the road. A quite visually deep (and fun) commercial for the new Camry. Check out the images for things you can’t exactly make out. •
Modrian owns Geometry, Pollock owns Drippings, Hockney owns California… Art History by Vuk Vidor. •
2006 graduation gallery @ the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands. This is the school where I would like to do my masters. •
Pictures from inside a Nike factory. You can easily see where they get their high-margin profits. •
Give your résumé a face lift. Or easy tips to learn how to fix that typography in (none other than) MS Word. This is a great guide-though for non-design people. •
Hydropolis: 550 million £ Underwater Hotel. Man, things just keep on getting crazier over in Dubaï. •
Chevrolet presents The American Look (1958). Beautifully presented objects and environnements of the fifties in America. The slow pace of the film is quite refreshing. There is however a few things you need to know when watching this short film. Firstly, it was made in 1958, a year after the russians launched Sputnik. The technology race has begun between the US and the USSR. “This precipitated a crisis in America’s confidence in its technological superiority, which is reflected in the orgy of over-compensation that we see in this film. To viewers at the time, the array of consumer objects with the “flowing lines and graceful shapes that we Americans enjoy” that reflect the “ease and grace and gaiety of American life” were meant to contrast with the widely publicized shortages of consumer goods and drab quality of everyday life in the Soviet Union.” Secondly, its in the last-third of the film that we truly understand where this is going: showcase the new delta-wing rear-finned 1959 Chevrolet Impala. “The American Look is nothing more than a build-up to exercise our American freedom of choice to buy a Chevrolet.” Read more comments and critics of the film here. (merci Papa) •
Youtube: Typography School. With phrases like “computers make students sloppy” and “it’s ok to be a bit elitist”. They pulled of the old-school feel pretty well. A must see for both young and old graphic designers. •
Pomme-D: Everyone Forever is “an expanding report of exploratory thinking and doing from the edges of every discipline; from Aerobics to Zoology and everything in-between.” Un p’tit bijou de site web. •
3 firmes montréalaise de design et d’architecture: Cabinet BB, Daoust + Lestage (qui viennent de devenir ma firme d’archtitecture locale préférée) et Cleinge. •
Zune is coming. MS is being edgy by association! The birds video is worth the click. (Merci Francis) •
Youtube: Face being slapped in slowmotion. Comme quand Homer va chez le docteur et sa vague de gras corporel prend 5 minutes pour arrêter de bouger. •
Pour ceux qui n’ont pas encore connue la joie du BitTorrent (le partage électronique de fichiers – notamment des méga-gros comme des émissions de TV, des albums de musique et des logiciels), il n’y a qu’un arrêt à faire: Xtorrent (OS X seulement). Super petit logiciel déjà ultra léché malgré qu’il est encore en version beta. •
Darren booth’s hand drawned lettering makes me 1. think of my CEGEP notebooks and 2. makes me want to stop working and get those coloured pencils out on the table. •
Remember that Sony Bravia ad with a 100 000 colored superballs bouncing going down the streets of San Francisco? Well they made a new one and it involves paint. Lots of it: fountains of paint, fireworks of paint, paint/colour orgasm. •
Opening titles for Dexter. De la peau, des poils, du sang, des oeufs… Parle-moi de ça de la grosse texture sale upclose and personal de même! •
Video gallery of people’s experience with the new motion- sensing Wii controller from Nintendo. You can now actually break a sweat playing video games. •
Enfin! Un de mes livres préféré, Le Parfum, de Patrick Süskind, est porté à l’écran. À l’époque où je l’ai lu, j’avais constemment des idées, des images très fortes de ce que devait être le film de ce livre. J’ai donc hâte de le voir en images. Ou de le sentir en images. Hehe. Bref, et c’est même écrit et réalisé par nul autre que Tom Tykwer, le cerveau derrière Run Lola Run. •
Aaaa-hh! Pour ceux qui aime ça de la typo animée en-3d-full-motion-graphics-dans-ta-face, vous allez mouiller votre p’tite culotte. Y sont typornographique ces néerlandais là. •
Anoush Abrar & Aimee Hoving art and commissioned photography. Couple good ones: Dolls, the military, fashion. •
Directed by architect Brian MacKay-Lyons, “Ghost research lab is an educational initiative designed to promote the transfer of architectural knowledge through direct experience, project based learning taught in the master builder tradition, with an emphasis on issues of landscape, material culture and community.” Flickr: Pictures from Ghost Lab #8. •
Music critics are funny intellectuals. “I am ready to hail this fluffy young composer’s work as a captivating and utterly fresh synthesis of late twentieth-century minimalist tendencies with the chromatic language of canonical European modernism.” •
300 comic-to-screen comparison + (tant qu’à y être) Sin City comic-to-screen comparison. •
Shiny Binary. I would call Nik Ainley’s works computer-paintings (even if its an oxymoron). •
5 Day Design Forecast. Or how television weather-infographics are pitifully, horribly, inexcusably bad. On dirait des mauvais powerpoint sur du crack. •
How to make a Rat LED Throwie. Autrement dit: comment faire un rat empaillé, aimenté et avec des yeux qui allument rouge sur ton fridge. Vive le Internet. (merci francis) •
Entres adultes, c’est toujours bon d’avoir des relations sexuelles consentantes. Même si un peu de paperasse est nécessaire. (Via el Kottké) •
Yellowtail repeats a user’s strokes end-over-end, enabling simultaneous specification of a line’s shape and quality of movement. See it for yourself, you’ll understand. •
Making of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. Enfin un “making of” qui te montre exactement tous les trucages. C’est une boîte québécoise en plus. Et sur le même ordre d’idée: il n’y a tellement plus de vrai décors au cinéma aujoiurd’hui. •
Tannée de ta bibliothèque iTounes? Tu veux rafraîchir tes p’tits tympans? J’pense que t’as besoin de faire un tour au Hype machine. Le site centralise tout le contenu musical publiée sur les grands blogs spécialisés dans la publication de nouvelle musique et d’artistes émergents. Avec des liens direct sur amazon et iTounes. •
The State of Starchitecture as of October 6th 2006. New projects by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind. •
I love how comics sometime have something to say that ain’t always funny: Today’s Sinfest comic is quite actual and true. •
Speaking of album art… any music and rock&roll semi connoisseur will love this: an animation of great rock album covers fighting each other. Now THAT’s battle of the bands. •
As Beck lauches his new CD The Information with a special intructions as to design yourself its cover (with stickers and a template), Design Observer has a article on other examples of controlled creative liberty. I find it’s more of an attempt to a direct relationship between the artist and the buyer/viewer through a creative game. And all games have rules. •
First trailer of Frank Miller’s 300. 300 Spartes versus l’armée Perse. Juste à voir la bande-annonce j’ai des frissons partout. (Pour les débranchés: Frank Miller = Sin City). •
Hum, people, y’a le Nujaz Festival la semaine prochaine. Du jazz électronique urbain (whatever that includes) du 10 au 14 octobre. (Thx Francis) •
Un grand bravo au jeune bloggeur et écrivain montréalais Frederic Rappaz qui vient tout juste de publier son premier livre Lettres à Memphis. •