Justin Thomas Kay was provided a rare opportunity to scour through the Herb Lubalin archives at Cooper Union, and shares some of the findings in a lovely flickr set.
(via justin thomas kay on flickr, discovered via coudal)
"Based on the Short Stories of Etgar Keret, and adapted for the screen by Etgar Keret and Director Tatia Rosenthal, $9.99 is a stop motion animated feature which offers slightly less than $10 worth about the meaning of life..." —$9.99 movie site
The film's first special engagements will show on June 19th at the Landmark Nuart in LA, and the Landmark Sunshine in NYC, with more cities and dates to follow. I'm really looking forward to seeing this new collaboration between director Tatia Rosenthal and writer Etgar Keret. The use of claymation and stop-motion animation juxtoposed with a unique storyline gives me much promise that this will be a memorable film (and best on the big screen).
"It took the Israeli-born filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal nine years to get her first animated feature made. Its title: “$9.99.” “And it’s coming out in 2009,” she said..." —Characters of Clay, Extremely Well Aged via NYTimes.com
(higher quality trailer on movie site--but doesn't embed in Safari browser)
Link: 9dollars99movie.com
Link: Good is Dead
The TDC Book Fair (May 29th—30th, 2009), provides an intimate environment to browse new book titles in the specialized areas of book design, printing, typography, and lettering arts. But the highlight for me was seeing the beautiful antiquarian books, and vintage type specimen booklets. Large bookstores and fairs can sometimes be overwhelming—it was a nice change to have space to turn pages freely (even for the antiquarian fragile books) and have conversations directly with book, lettering and design professionals. Hopefully the Type Directors Club Book Fair will be a new annual tradition in New York City.
I have a tendency of purchasing more books than I have room for, but it's a hard habit to break. Below are a few photographs of what I ended up taking home:
(above is a promo for Mark Batty Publisher)
I found the Yearbook of the Plimpton Press (1911) very unique because it has 9 actual
book covers pasted into the book. (a few more photos on flickr)
The Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples
To support the TDC, I also purchased an old annual from 1987. The pages are filled with designs by Louise Fili, Carin Goldberg, and Charles Spencer Anderson (pre- csadesign).
The TDC table also had a large stack of old type specimen books for ITC. I bought only two—betting that someone will buy up the rest of the pile of 70s style specimens. (in April I attended the Ed Benguiat talk, so this swayed what I picked up)
Link: inaugural TDC Book Fair
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About Me:
- Working on:
everything but what I should be doing. - Listening to:
pandora - Reading:
"Perfection" by Julie Metz - Watching:
old episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
