Design in the mind

Mary Mungo and Midge

sean — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:56:32 +0000

Perhaps I’ll reveal my age by bringing up this animation from the 60s that I recall from my childhood, Mary Mungo and Midge - on viewing it again recently I was taken back to my early love of animation and illustration - and not surprising when presented with cartoons as illustrative as this. Yes, the story is slow and aimed at the young and that cut out cartoon method looks clunky but the overall affect still has charm. In this episode Mungo teaches Mary about the difference between painting and printing - you may learn something too!

MIAF 2010

sean — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:16:18 +0000

I’ve just come back from seeing my first session of international short animations at the Melbourne International Animation Festival. And with every year, and with each session, it can always be relied on that there is an outstanding animation feature - and for me this session it was from Canada’s animator Theodore Ushev, titled ‘Lipsett Diaries’, written by Chris Robinson - a short animation based on a diary from Arthur Lipsett who was a Canadian avant-garde director of short experimental films (13 May 1936 – May 1, 1986). This is their interpretation of these diaries - find out more on the film here. Certainly worth taking a look.

And an insight into the painstaking process Theodore Ushev undertook to creative this lavish animation.

Give me colour - Pantone

sean — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:41:58 +0000

This is a bit of a promo video from Pantone to launch their new colour range - but it still presents us with a bit of a background to what goes in to making the unique colours and creating the colour system that all print-based designers rely on.

360° Color: A Peek Inside Pantone from Base on Vimeo.

Hermann Zapf

sean — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:41:54 +0000

The Art of Hermann Zapf

Making Faces

sean — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:31:54 +0000

Making Faces is a documentary on the dying art of letterpress craftsmanship - featuring the Canadian graphic designer and letterpress printer Jim Rimmer, who passed away at the beginning of this year. The film was produced by P22 Type Foundry and more about the film and it’s indended release to DVD can be found here and here

Optical illusion

sean — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:35:05 +0000

For the love of it.

A rough guide to screen printing

sean — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:14:01 +0000

A recent graduate of design has put together this rough guide to screen printing - a nice insight into the process of taking design to screen printing on a small scale - despite the overpowering music track!

A pretty rough guide to screen printing from Andrew Bell on Vimeo.

99%

sean — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:43:28 +0000

Spotted this video of a motion graphic presentation taken from the 99% Conference 2010 - and annual conference designed to help translate ideas from vision to reality. Check out their Vimeo page, 99%, for more inspiring videos from the conference.

Stop Sign

sean — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:21:38 +0000

Though this film exaggerates what can happen with the design process in a humorous yet disturbingly accurate way, it does demonstrate how a design process can run off course - with the dreaded “design by committee” approach and the over thinking and over cautious approach driven by the ‘need’ to satisfy every scenario and every audience.

Mad God Steadman

sean — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:28:42 +0000

I’m a big fan of artist/illustrator Ralph Steadman - he’s crazy and I love the way it shows in his work - I’ve spoken of him before, check it out here.
I discovered that Ralph had collaborated with artist Keith Newstead to create a dynamic sculpture in 1990, the outcome featured in the video below.

It was commissioned for an exhibition called Devious Devices in 1990. It features God rising above storm clouds. Below the earth is supported on 4 elephants which in turn are supported by strange creatures. It was about 10 feet high and I have no idea where it is now.