What’s Up #39: Peter Crnokrak
Peter Crnokrak is deep into graphic design. It wasn’t always the case though. A brief snippet from his bio tells the story, “…studied medicine, completed a doctorate in evolutionary genetics, moved to Toronto to start a postdoctoral fellowship but become crushingly bored with life, decided to leave the sciences for design…”. Yep, Graphic Design has a proper scientist in it’s midst. Under his current moniker, ‘The Luxury of Protest’ [theluxuryofprotest.com] Peter has been producing precisely-detailed limited edition posters for you to purchase via Design Supremo [designsupremo.com], a sample of which you can see above.
Saul Bass, Ant Enthusiast
It makes perfect sense that the world reknown master of cinema titles, Saul Bass [saulbass.tv] should have made a film. It makes even more sense that said film is more visually stunning than especially well written or acted. What is surprising is the subject matter: Mutant Killer Ants. Two mad scientists locked in a bucky ball [wikipedia.org/fullerene] with a particularly useless token female character wage war against hyper intelligent ants. Cue amazing super close-ups of ants communicating with each other, spooky ant hill sculptures, kooky 70s computer technology and loads of lab equipment smashing in slo-mo. A mini masterclass in technique if not a mildly diverting b-movie [iMDB].
Abbott, No Costello
I hope she won’t be too upset with me posting this but it’s a great little interview with ace illustrator, Chrissie Abbott [chrissieabbott.co.uk]. You get to poke around her studio too. Ace!
Bloody Show Offs
Meirion Pritchard, currently Art Director for Wallpaper [wallpaper.com] (along with pals Simon Robinson and Matt Thomas) likes to encourage shy and retiring creative types to Show Off (well, they’re not all shy, definitely top notch creatives though). I’ve been a tad slack and you now have only a few days left to catch the latest Show Off exhibition at the Art Vinyl store in Broadway Market, East London [facebook.com/events]. See original new pieces by Chrissie Abbott [chrissieabbott.co.uk], Laurent Fetis [laurentfetis.com] and Anthony Burill [anthonyburrill.com] (his contribution is shown below). Thanks to Melvin Galapon [mynameismelvin.co.uk] for pointing this out.
What’s Up #38: Mehmet Ulusahin
Mehmet Ulusahin [mehmetulusahin.com] isn’t waiting around for commissions, he’s been setting his own briefs and producing unique publications filled with his lush, hand-drawn illustrations, which he then exhibits at various zine and self-publishing fairs such as London’s excellent Publish and Be Damned [publishandbedamned.org] (photos of which, we’ll be posting on Flickr real soon) and the Zigzag ‘Independent Drawing Gig’ in Istanbul [idgnr4.blogspot.com].
Boicovideo #3: Little White Lies
The third Boicozine mini-feature on magazines stars all 19 issues of innovative cinema magazine, Little White Lies [littlewhitelies.co.uk] produced by The Church of London [thechurchoflondon.com]… oh and the hippity hop flyers link I mention in the filum is here… [toledohiphop.org].
This typeface will repeat on you
Only proper type geeks know the pang of spotting a spanky new typeface and not being able to play with it like, straight away cause it’s too expensive or custom made or whatever. Replica had me converting Swiss Francs seconds after spotting it on the Lineto website [lineto.com/Replica]. It’s by the fine folk with the annoying website called Norm [norm.to] is rigourously designed and has the potential to knock Akkurat off it’s throne. Other recent typeface releases worth investigating: Facebuster [typetrust.com], StagDot (even though it is literally the Guardian’s [markboulton.co.uk] typeface in dot form) [vllg.com/Schwartzco/StagDot] and Doodeka [fontstruct.fontshop.com/doodeka].
Boicovideo #2: L’œil / Design / The Architectural Review
The second Boicovideo features vintage editions of three magazines, L’œil [artclair.com/oeil] from 1970, Design [vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad] from 1963 and The Architectural Review [arplus.com] from 1962.
The Modern Metropolis Disappears
“For Londoners, London is obscured. Too thinly spread, too private for anyone to know. Its social life invisible, its government abolished, its institutions at the discretion of either monarchy or state or the City, where at the historic centre there nothing but a civic void, which fills and empties daily with armies of clerks and dealers, mostly citizens of other towns. The true identity of London is in its absence. As a city it no longer exists. In this alone it is truly modern. London was the first metropolis to disappear”
— Taken from the 1994 film by Patrick Keiller [screenonline.org.uk] simply entitled ‘London‘ [iMDB].
Boicovideo #1: Destill Magazine Review
This is a bit of an experiment, partly inspired by a presentation by Jeremy Leslie [magculture.com/blog], Mark Porter [markporter.com] and Richard Spencer Powell [monocle.com] at St Bride’s last Wednesday, courtesy of YCN Live (Thanks James! It were top.) [ycnonline.com/live].
The big question that seems to be floating about at the moment is once you acknowledge the influence online media has had on traditional print media, how do you then make yourself visible when readers may not even be viewing your content through your own website. I’ve often wondered how many people visit Boicozine directly or prefer to view these here posts via a reader such as Google Reader [reader.google.com]. I know many of you still do because of the encouraging (and occasionally negative) comments I get when meeting readers in person. Film is shaping up to be the last vestige of branding for publications starting to aggregate content. So without further ado. The first Boicozine mini-movie thingy. It’s about a new magazine concept called Distill [distilldigital.com]. Let me know what you think of the video. Too fast? Too shabby? Too much like I’m liking the sound of my own voice? Post comments here on on the boicovideo Vimeo page [vimeo.com/boicovideo].
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