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An interview w/ Ron Magliozzi, curator of Tim Burton retrospective at MOMA

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:01:45 GMT

"Cool Hunting had the pleasure of speaking with Magliozzi, Assistant Curator for MoMA's Department of Film, about the new show..."

Icon: László Moholy-Nagy Retrospective

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00:31 GMT

László Moholy-Nagy became known in Germany through his formative work as a teacher at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1923 to 1928. In 1937 he went to Chicago, where he became the founding director of the New Bauhaus (later named the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology). ...

Wearing Whitman's Words

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:20:11 GMT

From December 5th to January 10th, Lucky Gallery presents “Wearing Whitman’s Words; A Typographic Exploration.” Featuring new works created specifically for this show by; Friends of Type, Jennifer Heuer, Jessica Hische, Justin Thomas Kay, Pablo A. Medina, Ed Nacional, Meg Paradise, Pillow Fort, and Travis Simon.

Alvin Lustig Covers

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00:26 GMT

As a tangent from our normal interview posts, today we’re showing off some of the Alvin Lustig covers we collect (courtesy of Charles Brock and Tim Green)… and can you blame us? Here is a bit of information about him. Lustig was a modernist designer who partook in nearly all disciplines of design (we, of course, focus on the book jackets). He began the journey as a book jacket designer in 1937. One of the most amazing accomplishments of his career and expressions of his creativity was when he found himself going blind and still conducted his design work, directing his wife and assistants by referring to the colors in his house and geometric shapes. And for our application as book cover designers: learn how to design blind… maybe not… But really, when designing a book cover, “His (Lustig’s) method was to read a text and get the feel of the author's creative drive, then to restate it in his own graphic terms.”1 Lustig also “did not believe it was necessary to ‘design down," as he called it, "to achieve better sales.”2 This is a very brief look into Lustig’s history. If you would like to look deeper into his life and work, visit The Alvin Lustig Archive, dedicated to him. —Jason Gabbert (1) The Book Jacktes of Alvin Lustig by James Laughlin, New Directions -Print Magazine, Oct/Nov 1956 (2) Born Modern by Steven Heller -Eye Magazine 1993, vol. 3, no. 10 Add Comment 11.16.09 // Henry Sene Yee said:You guys own actual books? So jealous. --- 11.16.09 // Catherine Casalino said:I have been collecting Lustig designed books and advertisements for a few years now. I just love their simplicity and often pull them out for inspiration when I'm working on a project where the budget is limited. The Longest Journey is a great example of that< 2 colors and a few lines and panels. Genius. --- 11.16.09 // Ian said:what more can be said. The hearty melts when you view Lustig's work. and it melts even more to know we lost him at 40 or so years of age. What he contributed to the world of design period, is insurmountable. It would be quite a leap if books today could bend the boundaries he was bending back then. Sad.

"How the Puppets from Fantastic Mr. Fox Were Made"

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:43:39 GMT

"...Most baffling for the animators and puppet makers alike was Anderson’s insistence on naiveté. He didn’t want his film to look as slick as, say, The Corpse Bride or Coraline, which are so smooth as to look computer-animated. He instead wanted viewers to notice and embrace the medium of stop-motion itself, which had enchanted him as a child..." —article and more photos via Vanity Fair