Whats the Issuu?

A very good idea. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcLV1CsGCJg&w=640&h=390]

 

I haven't checked it out completely, but I'm inspired to give it a try as an alternative to a PDF portfolio.

As I am creating my portfolio (spending my weekend at the labs) I have also been fiddling with WIX.

Hopefully, after this weekend. I will have an end result (unlikely.)

TYPOGRAPHY + CITIES

Take the video for Paris, for example. Jean-Luc Godard famously said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, but after watching this and literally tearing up at the end, I propose an amendment: all you need is a girl and a font. via fastco.  

[vimeo 19425794]

[vimeo 19426897]

[vimeo 19425014]

Geeze. What good commercials.

Design Quote of the Month:

ITS FEBRUARY!

We should not underestimate the crucial importance of leadership and design joining forces. Our global future depends on it. We will either design our way through the deadly challenges of this century, or we won't make it. For our institutions - in truth, for our civilization - to survive and prosper, we must solve extremely complex problems and cope with many bewildering dilemmas. We cannot assume that, following our present path, we will simply evolve toward a better world. But we can design that better world. That is why designers need to become leaders, and why leaders need to become designers. —Richard Farson, Management by Design, 2000

Scopitone: similar to a jukebox, with better music videos than MTV.

The forerunner to the music video and the kitschiest thing on earth.  Reaching their peak in the 1960's, Scopitone used 16 mm film clips that played in specially designed jukeboxes made in France. Feed a quarter into it and let your eyes be dazzled. Here's a funny little segment from NPR.

And now, for the catchiest part.... The Kessler Sisters:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m3P7oBUb4g&w=480&h=390]

 

You know you want one. I do.