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Star-Crossed Lovers

Matt Thomas — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:52:04 +0000

Fan-made poster for Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000), currently streaming on Netflix if you’re into that sort of thing:

Filed under: design, movies, posters Tagged: In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai

The Wu-Note Project

Matt Thomas — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:31:08 +0000

The Wu-Note Project – Wu-Tang Clan album covers re-imagined in Blue Note Records style.

Redo your iTunes album artwork. You’ll be glad you did.

Related viewing: Project Thirty-Three

Filed under: art, design, music Tagged: blue note, wu-tang clan

The Greatest Map of the United States Ever Made

Matt Thomas — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:26:05 +0000

“David Imus worked alone on his map seven days a week for two full years. Nearly 6,000 hours in total.” And it’s amazing.

I got mine in the mail today and I couldn’t be more pleased. Recommended.

Filed under: design, endorsements Tagged: maps

To Resolve Project

Matt Thomas — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:26:10 +0000

Chris Streger’s To Resolve Project:

“I decided to ask as many talented designers I knew (or didn’t know) to create a resolution for the new year as an iPhone background.”

(Via Coursekit.)

Filed under: design, inspiration

There Are No Clean Getaways

Matt Thomas — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:21:00 +0000

(Via.)

Filed under: design, masculinity, movies, posters Tagged: Drive, movie posters, Ryan Gosling

Here’s Some Free Design

Matt Thomas — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:43:44 +0000

(Via Curved White.)

Related viewing: Mike Monteiro’s “Fuck You, Pay Me” talk.

Filed under: design, work

Malcolm X’s Business Card

Matt Thomas — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:16:40 +0000

Business card of Malcolm X found in his pocket after his assassination.

(Via.)

Filed under: design Tagged: Malcolm X

Typographic City Logos

Matt Thomas — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:46:10 +0000

From Albin Holmqvist’s 40-city typographic logo project:

(Via.)

Filed under: design

A Brief History of Title Design

Matt Thomas — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:42:29 +0000

This video reminds me of Uncredited: Graphic Design and Opening Titles in Movies, a book I reviewed for Film & History in 2008. The veritable explosion of love for movies titles online since then (in addition to Art of the Title, there’s The Movie Titles Stills Collection and Steven Hill’s Movie Title Screens Page) warms my heart.

Filed under: design, movies

Noir Aesthetics

Matt Thomas — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:42:37 +0000

Number fourteen on Where Danger Lives’ marvelous “100 Greatest Posters of Film Noir” list.

Filed under: design, movies, posters

Massimo Vignelli’s 80th Birthday Party Invitation

Matt Thomas — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:26:44 +0000

Naturally, the typeface is Helvetica.

The New York Times was at the party and filed this report.

(Via.)

Filed under: design Tagged: Vignelli

The Face All Print Men Are Talking About

Matt Thomas — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:36:23 +0000

(Via yay!everday via Khoi Vinh.)

Filed under: design, gender, typography Tagged: Helvetica

The Style of Music

Matt Thomas — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:48:33 +0000

EveryGuyed:

“A series of posters featuring Iconic Outfits from 20 Male Musicians. Designed by Glenn Michael of Moxy Creative House, and illustrated by James Alexander the prints are available here.”

Filed under: design, infographics, masculinity, music, posters, style

Black Swan

Matt Thomas — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:37:11 +0000

More. Trailer.

(Via Kottke.)

Filed under: design, movies, posters

Dress the Part

Matt Thomas — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:26:29 +0000

Part of the 10 Movie Posters Inspired by Men’s Style collection. Individual prints are available for purchase at Moxy Creative.

Filed under: design, posters

Van Dyke Parks’s Business Card

Matt Thomas — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:41:21 +0000

(Via the indispensable Orange Crate Art.)

Filed under: design, inspiration

Massimo Vignelli’s Desk

Matt Thomas — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:44:33 +0000

Massimo Vignelli’s desk:

(Via Design Observer.)

Filed under: design, work

Books as Furniture

Matt Thomas — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:16:49 +0000

When the day comes that people no longer read books, it’s good to know that we can painstakingly stack them into desks and place our computers atop them.

(Via.)

Filed under: books, design

Saul Bass’s Letterhead

Matt Thomas — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:18:18 +0000

(Via Letterheady.)

Related post: “Paul Rand’s Letterhead”

Filed under: design

Harmonica

Matt Thomas — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:07:07 +0000

My favorite of Grischa Stanjek’s “minimalistic alternative movie posters,” mainly because Once Upon a Time in the West is one of my favorite movies. The opening title sequence alone is better than many entire films.

Previously: Is It Safe?, Ibraheem Youssef’s Quentin Tarantino Posters, Jamie Bolton’s Minimalist Movie Posters, Minimalist TV Show Posters, and Olly Moss’s Movie Poster Remakes.