Category Archives: people i admire
Micah Hahn, on Typography
Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.
This week’s list: Filmmakers I’m drooling over
Seven Nine (!) filmmakers I am way excited about right now. Michael Medaglia: Because he is about to release his short thriller Kitty Kitty on VODO (look for it on June 10th) and because he has a script he’s shopping around right now that is OFF THE HOOK good. Maya Newell: Because this Australian filmmaker […]
Milton Glaser’s Great Rules For Life
Go check out Milton Glaser’s site, where you can find the essay quoted below in its original context. This came to me from Frank Lentz, via Micah Hahn, and is an excerpt from a talk Glaser gave at AIGA in London on Nov. 22, 2001, called ‘Ten Things I Have Learned.’ 1. YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR […]
The Date Farmers
I’ve always been a big fan of art collaboratives. As such, Micah Hahn recently introduced me to the work of The Date Farmers. From their site: “Artwork by The Date Farmers echoes Mexican-American heritage rooted in California pop culture. Their paintings, collages and three-dimensional sculptures contain elements influenced by graffiti, Mexican street murals, traditional revolutionary […]
Os Gêmeos
Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo are twin brothers from São Paulo in Brazil. Going by the name Os Gêmeos they’ve been painting walls since the 80’s. Some liken them (and their work) to the Rococo painters of yore. I like to think of them as Disney Imagineers on acid, and with a chip on their shoulder.
Tobias Wong
Sad news about the design world’s so-called ‘enfant terrible’ Tobias Wong, who died earlier this month at the age of 35. Wong suffered from episodes of sleepwalking, and his long-time partner thinks his apparent suicide was the result of one of what the director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center terms ‘parasomnia pseudo-suicide‘ — […]
Zimoun & Pe Lang
Born in Bern, Switzerland, self described ‘auto-ditact’ Zimoun creates sound sculptures and installations using repetitive mechanical movements to create a bigger aural and visual whole– or, conversely, by breaking up a large function into tiny, quantifiable mechanized parts. If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out this video of his work, or […]
