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while KonMari has me pulling at the fraying edges of nostalgia, here's one more batch of ads from 2005, which, it seems, is as far back as my Cinematheque archives go. while working on the European Union Film Festival that year, a hard drive failure wiped out all my email, publicity materials, and artwork (posters, photos, magazine spreads, and marketing collateral) from ... Read More
... and without the UK? the British people have voted, and $#!t is starting to get real. a little known spin-off of the UK leaving the EU, wholly inconsequential to anyone but the geekiest of film geeks — and even then, perhaps only in passing — is that the UK will likely never again co-present the European Union Film Festival. but hey, unlike the morning-after regret, ... Read More
stuffed in a drive: print ads for The Cinematheque, from 2005. maybe in ten or twenty years, they'll be considered "vintage" — but for now, i guess they are just "old." crazy to think that i designed hundreds of these pieces, churning out — sorry, crafting — at minimum one/week. most were grayscale, though a few times a year, i would splurge on colour. most appeared ... Read More
the Contents Page can help set the tone for a magazine/piece, depending on design and placement. in the years that i designed The Cinematheque's program guide magazine, it was always on page 3. sometimes a teaser for editorial. maybe a riff on cover art. but always quiet, late-night desperation. it was the last thing i would do before proofing or pre-press. ... Read More
i first came across Aim For The Roses during pre-production for DOXA in early February, while rolling through various possibilities for festival art. the stills were amazing: a defiant, hairy-chested man in a tight, yellow jump suit; smartly dressed musicians with choreographed back-up singers/dancers on a racetrack; and a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental with wings, ... Read More