Hasta La Ideas

The German magazine Slanted‘s spring issue is out and features blackletter type. It looks quite comprehensive in its scope. It is a very different aesthetic to anything I design or curate for UPPERCASE, but it is always good to explore/admire other styles!

In “Heavy Metal. Lovers.” we look into blackletter fonts and their modern applications. Slanted presents the innovative work of Invisible Creature (Seattle), historic type-treasures from the archives of Linotype (Bad Homburg) and Klingspor Museum (Offenbach), the photo documentation “True Norwegian Black Metal” from Peter Beste (New York) etc. …

Un spot très frais et original dans le cadre du développement de la marque Nike Sportswear, grâce à un travail d’animation et de direction artistique du studio Sticky Monster Lab. Une campagne 3D autour des personnages et du monde du football.

Previously on Fubiz

• Nike True City
• Nike – Never without a Fight
• Tenki Exhibition : Nike Dunks

adverputt is a 12 hold mini golf game, but each hole is sponsored by a link. I have to say its really fun to play and a brilliant idea.

While all the talk about film festivals are usually the films themselves, for this very brief moment in time, there’s been buzz about the festival poster instead. The Telluride Film Festival has just released a copy of their annual promotional print, which usually always get some minor attention as the event tries to nab interesting designers or artists each year to do the job — last year was William Wegman (.doc) and the year before that was Laurie Anderson (pdf). For the 2010 fest, they’ve landed Pixar‘s Ralph Eggleston, the art director and production designer who has been involved in the studio’s popular films since Toy Story (as well as directing their Oscar-winning short, For the Birds. Eggleston told the LA Times that he based the muted-color, retro look on It Happened One Night, and Entertainment Weekly reports that a second poster by the designer will be released closer to the festival’s kick off in September.

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Un magnifique court-métrage écrit et réalisé par l’artiste et designer Maxim Zhestkov. Baptisé “Recursion”, il est le fruit d’un long travail en 3D, en animation et en sound-design. A découvrir en images et vidéo HD dans la suite de l’article.

Previously on Fubiz

• Michael Kutsche
• Nike Sportswear x Sticky Monster Lab
• Faithless – Not Going Home