The reduction of line and form all the way to black on white. Literal direct concrete symmetry. Looking upon this the right and left eyes see almost identical images which is unusual in our stereoscopic and assymetrical lives. Image creation at it’s most psychologically and perceptively primal must be black and white symmetry. It is uncommon in nature but utterly natural in the mind. 
A lifetime of collecting black markers. I get that. I immediately relate to that. However, the layers of appreciation beyond that resonate like a gong. This represents the love of, the love of, black ink. This represents a love of visual expression at it’s most fundamental. Needless to say I copped one.
The art on those old Verve & Blue Note Jazz albums is timeless. Animating them into a movie tastefully might have seen like a bad idea up front. I’ve always thought they were, essentially, static graphics and probably should not be messed with. However this video carries the sensibility, respectfully, congruently into the modern era. I don’t care that it’s two years old, I just saw it and I think it’s simply beautiful. Thanks to my friend Sam for cluing me in to this on Vimeo.
Black books clutter my environment. Many can attest. Journals are stashed everywhere full of heiroglyphs, unflattering portraits of coworkers, project notes, client feedback and useful nonsense. I only rarely refer back to my journals because the act of writing things down is more valuable than retaining a record. It helps …
Futura x 12ozProphet Feature from ALSO KNOWN AS on Vimeo.
Always interested in a Futura update/retrospective and this one is still fresh, posted less than a week ago. Stumbled into this over here on FreshlySerious.com
A beautiful Globe Wernicke wooden desk tray & a miniature decorative plate depicting the region of Sweden my great great grandparents called home, Kinnekulle. These will make my workspace feel a touch nicer.
Check out this Fubiz post. If you don’t speak French Google Chrome will translate it for you. I learned about this as I clicked into Physical Fiction from the Fubiz twitter feed.
In a message to the generation of artists and designers that would follow him, c. 1999, Stephen Powers explains in his book, The Art of Getting Over, “You suck until further notice… Theres’ nothing wrong with knowing you’re the shit as long as you are. But once you reach that conclusion you’re one foot over the edge of falling off. Watch your step fathead, there’s no shortage of people chanting, “JUMP, JUMP, JUMP!”
In the late 90s & early 00s there was a bubbling micro movement of collaborative freestyle art creation that has since subsided. An artist would mark up a piece of paper and fax it to the next artist. The next artist could either add his mark in ink, post a …
