A transmission from the deep south.
If there’s a movement to get him the first posthumous Oscar since Peter Finch won for 1976’s Network, sign me up. Ledger’s Joker has no gray areas — he’s all rampaging id.
— Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers with an entirely favourable review of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. (via I Watch Stuff)
I’m not driven by making a cultural impact. That’s just a consequence of taking a remarkably powerful technology and making it relevant.
— Apple’s industrial design chief Jonathan Ive in an interview with The Independent’s Claire Beale, following the addition of two more Black Pencils to Ive’s career tally which now stands at six.
Also in the non-professional category of the 2007 IPA Awards, this photo taken in California’s Salton Sea by Lung Liu, from a series entitled “Abandoned”. The professional categories highlight a few gems too.
From the “Nuns” series by Moscow-based photographer Oleg Dou, who took first and second place in the Non-Professional Photographer of the Year (Digital Manipulation category) at the 2007 IPA Awards.
Typographica’s extensive list of notable typeface releases from last year includes two from New Zealander Kris Sowersby.
New Zealander Kris Sowersby has been named by the Type Directors Club as one of its winners at TDC2 2008 for his National type family. Superb. (via I Love Typography)
Its triumph can be seen as a victory for cinéastes; love the film or hate it, it’s hard not to be thrilled that the men behind Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski have been given an Oscar.
— New York Magazine’s Vulture backgrounds the Coens’ Oscar win.
Posterwire has chosen Chris Ware’s illustrated poster for Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages as its movie poster of the year for 2007. The Internet Movie Poster Awards site has named its nominees also.
Winner, 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Main Title, sequence by Digital Kitchen.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
