The Mouse is Dead : Disney Pulls Joy Division Shirt

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Vroom! Chris Burden’s Metropolis II via Gelatobaby

Learn More: A quick spin through Chris Burden’s Metropolis II | Gelatobaby.

Daily Delight: It’s Fashion Mate!

BRUNO BENINI
Original article via Dazed Image Gallery.

“Bruno Benini was born in Italy but migrated to Australia with his parents in 1935, and is considered as one of the most iconic fashion photographers of the mid-20th century in the land down under. Young Benini actually decided to dedicate himself to photography after he visited Italy in the late 1940s and, upon his return to Australia, he joined Peter Fox studios, occasionally working as a model for Helmut Newton, Athol Shmith and Henry Talbot. While the style of his first images, featuring glamorous models wearing beautiful haute couture gowns, calls to mind early shots by Pasquale De Antonis, as the years passed and Benini travelled to New York, London and Italy, his style changed and he began chronicling the mod years, hippy trends and the disco scene. Together with his wife, fashion publicist Hazel, Benini put together an archive that became of vital importance since it follows the developments of the Australian fashion scene, but also indirectly touched upon historical events such as the role of Melbourne’s Jewish diaspora’s in the production, design, manufacture and retailing of post-WWII Australian fashion.

The archive was acquired by the Powerhouse Museum that is presenting a major survey of Benini’s works at the exhibition “Creating the Look: Benini and Fashion Photography”, opening during the Sydney Design Festival. The event features 400 images by Benini, including Jean-Francois Lanzarone’s digital gallery which projects images and details of the photographs into mirrors, and is accompanied by a carefully researched music and voice soundtrack that includes feedback by Bruno, Hazel and Benini’s models.”

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Daily Delight: Clean Me I’m Yours

HOUSE PROUD

This sexy video “Chore” by Justin Anderson for English lingerie label Damaris makes housework seem like something I’d like to help with every day

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Something’s Going On Down There

AUSTRALIAN RULES

Design studio There is based in Sydney, Australia, and proudly fly the flag for modernism down under. Check out some of their work on There Blog. We think There great mate …

Daily Delight: We Make Words

Via We Make Words.

Daily Delight: Watch That Man

BRIAN DUFFY

Brian Duffy, along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, helped shape the 60s photographically. So much so, in 1962, the English Sunday Times dubbed them the ‘Terrible Trio.’ Photographer Norman Parkinson called them the ‘Black Trinity,’ after their dominant black and white style which appeared almost everywhere, from Vogue to Town to French Elle and Glamour magazine. Duffy’s extensive archive is now published online and goes into great detail covering almost everything he ever shot. Perhaps his most well known image was the ground breaking cover he photographed for David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane. Originally shot in black and white and then colorized, the cover has inspired generation after generation and has influenced everyone from 70s punk to Lady Gaga.

Daily Delight: Tweet Tweet

ANDREW ZUCKERMAN

Photographer Andrew Zuckerman has a thing for birds. Recently he flew (well drove actually) to the National Aviary and photographed some of their finest specimens for his book Bird. Show-Off Gallery also recently published a selection online including a behind the scenes video.

Out of Control

CORBIJN & CLOONEY COLLABORATE

Coming to a theatre near you this Fall, The American stars George Clooney and is Anton Corbijn’s follow up to his critically acclaimed movie, Control, about the life and death of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. I ran into Anton recently while he was in New York during pre-screening sessions for The American.

Here’s an excerpt from his blog about the pre-screening process: ”Survived the test screening in New Jersey, just about. We only had 4 walkouts which is not bad. If I had shown CONTROL there I think there would have been a lot more people heading for the door.  As it is, I will continue editing, starting again today, Easter Monday.”

“Wish it was raining, makes it so much easier to go into the darkness of the edit suite. I’m going to look at the ending of the film and make sure it is understood by more people. No way I’m going to let you in on the actual ending so you will have to wait and see. Or wait longer and go and see the sequel, in 3D of course.”

Excerpt and stills from Corbijn’s Focus Features Blog

PROLOGUE

The film’s trailer and title sequence uses the typeface Gotham. Of course! – it is called The American after all

The 24th Envelope

FAST MOVING MAGICAL CONSUMER GOODS

Timothy O’Donnell at one time was a member of Vaughn Oliver’s prolific studio, V23. These days O’Donnell is design director at Johnson and Johnson in New York. Last May he published his first book titled “Sketchbook,” which offers an insight into the “thought processes, preoccupations, and problem-solving strategies” of designers including former V23 colleague Chris Bigg, Rian Hughes, Stephen Doyle and Stylorouge. O’Donnell’s personal work is both extremely considered and wonderfully magical and should be seen as inspiration for all. We look forward to seeing some of this magic bubbling to the surface over at J&J soon.

via Timothy O’Donnell

From .Avi to .Zip and Everything In-between

A FILE NAME EXTENTION GUIDE

via Form’s blog

Daily Scrap: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

AND THE WINNER IS

The symbol “&” is a ligature of the letters “et” which is Latin for “and.” The word ampersand is a conflation of the phrase “and per se and”, meaning “and [the symbol which] by itself [is] and.”

via Good Ampersand

via Shit Ampersand

Its letterform can be traced back to the first century A.D. and the Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature.

via Wikipedia

Complex Issues

TIM LEONG RETROSPECTIVE
via SPD.org

Tim Leong was the design director at Complex magazine for the past four years. He recently left the magazine to move to San Francisco and be the art director at Wired.

At Complex he developed a look that was fun, energetic, sexy, and diverse, reflecting the magazine’s hip, street attitude. Leong used a rapid-fire mix of cool photography, photo illustration, cartoony illustration, and high-powered graphic typography to create a very original and totally rocking design. Go here for a short retrospective collection of Leong’s Complex covers and feature spreads.

All You Need Is Love

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED

Illustrator Ros Shiers takes Robert Indiana‘s famous ‘Love’ painting and gives it a new age twist. We love. View more of Shier’s work here.

Daily Delight: Flora Adora

Type by Kristina Collantes. We really hope she gets to finish the rest of this font as it’s quite exquisite.

Daily Delight: The Loose Kites

FLYING HIGH

Stumbled across these charming record covers for The Loose Kites illustrated by Abi Whitehouse on Facebook.

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US License Plate Redesign Project

LET THE MODERNIZATION OF AMERICA BEGIN!
via Fast Company

“Back to the future” best describes the new license plate issued by New York State in April. The “Empire Gold” design which is now appearing on streets, has been deemed “quite unappealing” by more than 80 percent of New Yorkers polled by WCBSTV.

New Yorkers: Consider yourselves lucky. Compared to some states, New York’s design is a prize winner. Proof can be found at David Nicholson’s Web site 15q.net. It examines the evolution of U.S. license plate design over the past fifty years from the purely functional to the frightfully fanciful. Read more via Fast Company.

Let The House of Love Shine On

I DON’T KNOW WHY I LOVE YOU

Before Oasis and the onslaught of ‘Brit-Pop’ there was a band from South London called The House of Love. Led by Guy Chadwick, the band shot to initial fame with a few early singles, notably ‘Shine On.’ They were originally signed to Alan McGee’s Creation Records at a time when Noel Gallagher and crew were still in diapers.

Photo Suzie Gibbons

However, the success of their early work led to them being signed by Fontana, part of Polydor, Polygram etc. The band’s second album, simply titled ‘The House of Love,’ but also known as the Butterfly album (coincidently photographed by Trevor Key), was their first Fontana release, and included two more ‘hits’: ‘I Don’t Know Why I Love You’ and ‘The Beatles and the Stones.’

During the early 90s I had the honor or working with the band on several singles and one album, ‘Babe Rainbow.’ The cover was shot by Guy’s girlfriend Suzie Gibbons, and was photographed at Pete Townsend’s recording studio in Twickenham. The album’s title came from the painting in the background by Peter Blake.

In retrospect, looking back on the work I produced it seems like an odd creative strategy for a band mostly obsessed with the 60s. Apart from ‘Babe Rainbow,’ most of the other covers we produced, such as the cover for ‘Crush Me’ for instance (see below) seems more appropriate for an electronic dance band. Then again, Chadwick came to us via his love of Depeche Mode, which in hindsight somehow now makes sense. Like they say hindsight is 20/20.

Antony Gormley : Test Sites

NEW EXHIBITION AT WHITE CUBE

The sculptor Antony Gormley is one of the most celebrated artists of modern times and has been questioning the way in which homo sapiens define their space within the infinite flux of the world for over 25 years. In Test Sites, his latest show at White Cube, he juxtaposes rusting geometric takes on his infamous human casts in the upstairs gallery with the immersive, three-dimensional fluorescent grid he has created downstairs (Breathing Room III). Lost among the glowing architecture in the almost pitch-black darkness of the downstairs installation (an environment erratically punctuated by bursts of intense white light that make you feel as though you are being scrutinised by a malevolent omniscient entity), I asked the artist whether all creative enterprise was still ultimately concerned with exploring our relationship to death: that mysterious state of non-being Shakespeare coined as the undiscovered country… Read more via Dazed Digital.

Grafik Magazine Visits NYC

PHOTO ESSAY BY DAN ROLFE JOHNSON

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