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of print advertising and nostalgia

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

Europe Without the Jetlag

... 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

of KonMari and Wong Kar-wai

two weeks ago, i started reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. i'm not a hoarder or anything that extreme, but like Travis Bickle, "one of these days i gotta get myself organizized." stage one, clothing: complete. besides developing an obsession with folding clothes so that they stand up, balanced and compact, this meant letting go of my Ichi the ... Read More

it’ll be a long time ago, someday

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

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