Hasta La Ideas

While most of the attention has been a few hundred miles east in New York, since 2006 we’ve been covering the trials and tribulations of getting a permanent memorial to Flight 93, which crashed in rural Pennsylvania on September 11th. While it, like its counterparts at the World Trade Center site, has been plagued with delays, most recently financial, it’s never received nearly the same attention. We think that might all be about to change. As soon as all this hubbub surround the “Ground Zero mosque” began, and the flurry of xenophobia that’s come with it, we knew it was only a matter of time before we’d hear from Alec Rawls, the lead force behind the movement to stop the National Park Service from using its currently planned memorial, designed by Paul Murdoch. Outside of that brief controversy that claimed Murdoch had stolen his chosen concept, Rawls has been telling anyone who will listen for the past half decade, that the design looks like an crescent and is secretly honoring terrorists. Unfortunately, he’s managed to get some minor press along the way, and even more unfortunate, the ear of the father of one of the victims of the attack. Now, with a portion of the country steaming with anger, Rawls has returned, taking out two full page ads in a local paper speaking out against the memorial’s design and capturing the attention from news outlets, who have given him ample time to share his opinions (read the 600+ comments attached to that link to get an idea of how this story might soon escalate). Fortunately, there’s also been positive developments surrounding the site. There’s a campaign afoot to raise money to pay for the memorial’s construction by selling 9/11 remembrance pins. What’s more, First Ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama are joining the fundraising effort and will be making appearances to support it later today. So while there’s still a lot of work to do, including keeping the site free of commercialization, it’s heartening to see positive movement around the memorial than the loud rants of absurdity.

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Creative Review announces the launch of our first Type Annual, showcasing the finest in type design from the previous 12 months. Deadline October 22

The Type Annual will showcase typeface design itself rather than work that uses type, creating, we hope, a showcase of the best crafted, most innovative and most exciting typefaces produced during entry period – October 2009 to October 2010. To be eligible for inclusion, typefaces must have been first released or used within this period. Selected work will be printed in a special February issue of Creative Review.

The categories for the Type Annual are:
Display
Text
Bespoke
Non-Latin

The judges will be asked to select work in each category – there are no winners or runners-up and no limit to the number of typefaces to be selected. In addition, the judges will select those of outstanding merit to feature in the Best in Book section. Single entries in one of the four categories cost £50, 2-3 entries cost £100.

Judging this year’s Type Annual are:

Mark Porter, Mark Porter Associates
Formerly creative director of The Guardian, where he oversaw the newspaper’s 2005 redesign, Mark Porter now runs his own editorial design studio. He has previously worked as art director for Wired and Colors and has redesigned major newspapers including Público and NZZ an Sonntag.

Coralie Bickford-Smith
Coralie Bickford-Smith is a senior cover designer at Penguin Books,
 where she has created several series designs. She studied typography
 at Reading University.

Andy Dymock
Andy Dymock is one of the most respected typographers in advertising. He is currently working with Coy! Communications as well as on freelance projects.

Fiona Ross
Fiona Ross is a typographic consultant, typeface designer, lecturer and author, specializing in non-Latin scripts. Previously she had responsibility for the design and development of Linotype’s non-Latin typefaces and typesetting schemes. She has collaborated on award-winning Arabic and Indian typeface designs for Adobe and Dalton Maag, and is engaged on a new type design for a major Bengali newspaper. Fiona is also a lecturer at the University of Reading.

For full entry details and to register your interest, please go here

OK, here it is – the final installment of a three part film directed by Saman Keshavarz (through US production company Mighty8) to accompany and promote Russ Chimes‘ debut release: Midnight Club EP…

Quick recap: In Part 1 (see our original post here), a young couple is kidnapped by a bunch of violent balaclava-clad oiks and bundled into the back of a van – but, after a beating, the young chap is ejected from the kidnappers vehicle battered and bruised. In Part 2 (see last week’s post here), our young hero turns detective and starts to work out what the heck’s going on, and, presumably, how he’s going to get his girl back. Now, it’s time to find out how the story ends…

Russ Chimes – Midnight Club EP (Part 3: Targa) from Russ Chimes on Vimeo.

Midnight Club EP by Russ Chimes is due for release in October on label Eye Industries

Credits:

Director: Saman Keshavarz
Writers: Saman Keshavarz, Nate Eggert
Executive producer: Lanette Phillips
Producers: Francis Pollara, Saman Keshavarz, Romson Niega
Associate producers: Nate Eggert, Tom Lee
Cinematographer: Justin Gurnari
Editor: Nate Tam
Production designer: Julie Chen
Stunts: Ken Arata
Graphics: Cosimo Galluzzi
Label: Eye Industries (eyeindustries.com/blog)
Production company: Mighty8 (mighty8.tv)

Next up is the promo for The Wombats’ track, Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves), directed by The General Assembly – (who you may recall shot the wonderfully camp cop buddy video we posted the other week for Grum’s track Through The Night). This film features a woefully uncool manager trying (and failing) to shepherd The Wombats around Tokyo…

The General Assembly are represented by SkinFlicks

OK the next video wasn’t commissioned as such, but rather it was created by Belgian director Charles De Meyer (aka Chuck Eklectric) who created a version of the following film in response to Amon Tobin track, Esther’s, which appeared on Tobin’s Foley Room album, released in 2007 on Ninja Tune. De Meyer sent the film in as a ‘fan video’ to the record label. Amon Tobin saw it and loved it and has now worked on the sound design for a final “official” version of the film which Ninja Tune are offering this week as a free iPhone compatible download from ninjatunexx.com The film features a house-breaking robot intent on… well, you’ll have to watch to find out:

My next choice of new video was also not commissioned by a music label. Rather, SkinFlicks directorial team, Sniper Twins, created a promo for track Beaches & Friends for band French Horn Rebellion – because they’re friends with the band. So the promo is in no way “official” but the directors have been given permission to show it on their reel and on the SkinFlicks site – where you can watch it if you click the link below:

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