What Are You Looking At?

What Are You Looking At? http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/ en Copyright 2013 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:48:37 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification All Things Engraved By Leslie De La Vega, Director of Photography, Fast Company

I was talking to someone recently who told me she had just finished a book and is about to embark on the book tour. She told me it was a book on engraving, not the kind your father once did with an engraving tool on all your worldly possessions like your tricycle or old wooden treasure box. No, this is something more artful and beautiful...art engraved on paper. The book is called The Complete Engraver by Nancy Sharon Collins....

More after the jump...

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]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/02/this-is-what-sand-looks-like.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/02/this-is-what-sand-looks-like.php Photography patrick mitchell photography plutomedia sand the daily mail Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:30:00 -0500 LOOK: What's Inspiring the GQ Photo Department, Part 3 Beginning this month, SPD is introducing Look, an ongoing series that will highlight the images that are inspiring, piquing, and stirring up conversation in various magazines' photography departments. Think of it as an ever-changing moodboard. First up: GQ's photography department, led by Dora Somosi.

See what they're looking at after the jump...

]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/02/look-whats-inspiring-the-gq-ph-2.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/02/look-whats-inspiring-the-gq-ph-2.php Inspiration Apartamento dora somosi gq look photo department photography Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:00 -0500 LOOK: What's Inspiring the GQ Photo Department, Part 2 Beginning this month, SPD is introducing Look, an ongoing series that will highlight the images that are inspiring, piquing, and stirring up conversation in various magazines' photography departments. Think of it as an ever-changing moodboard. First up: GQ's photography department, led by Dora Somosi.

See what they're looking at after the jump...

]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/02/look-whats-inspiring-the-gq-ph-1.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/02/look-whats-inspiring-the-gq-ph-1.php Inspiration art forum dora somosi gq gregory crewdson jan groover Look Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0500 LOOK: What's Inspiring the GQ Photo Department, Part 1 Look, an ongoing series that will highlight the images that are inspiring, piquing, and stirring up conversation in various magazines' photography departments. Think of it as an ever-changing moodboard. First up: GQ's photography department, led by Dora Somosi.

See what they're looking at after the jump...

]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/01/look-whats-inspiring-the-gq-ph.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/01/look-whats-inspiring-the-gq-ph.php Inspiration dora somosi GQ Look photo department photography Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:26:00 -0500 Fave Femmes Angela Tillman Sperandio and Samira Bouabana of Swedish design studio Hjarta Smarta traveled to New York to meet with, in their words, "a few lady giants of the designing world." Those conversations laid the groundwork for an insightful new book series for Oyster Press... ]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/10/fave-femmes.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/10/fave-femmes.php Books Angela Tillman Sperandio Annie Liebowitz Carin Goldberg Diana Vreeland Diane Arbus Hall of Femmes Harper's Bazaar HjÃ¤rta SmÃ¤rta Janet Froelich Lillian Bassman Maira Kalman Oyster Press Paula Scher Richard Avedon Ruth Ansel Samira Bouabana The New York Times Magazine Tina Brown Vanity Fair Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:00:00 -0500 Typomag: A design library must-have TypoMag,which highlights--you guessed it--magazine typography. Curated by editorial designer Laura Meseguer, the book features an international mix of publications known for inventive font usage... ]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/08/typomag-a-design-library-must-.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/08/typomag-a-design-library-must-.php Books books Elephant Futu Laura Meseguer resources The New York Times Magazine typography TypoMag Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:30:00 -0500 Ward Sutton: The Movie Title Stills Collection Ward Sutton shares this "Awesome collection of movie title graphics" from The Movie Stills Collection. Great stills from 1920 to today. More images after the jump.

]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/05/ward-sutton-the-movie-title-st.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/05/ward-sutton-the-movie-title-st.php Typography Film film titles movie titles Wed, 26 May 2010 17:50:55 -0500 Must Watch: Logorama LOGORAMA, is a must watch for all designers. The short is a unique action movie created entirely with animated corporate logos.

]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/02/must-watch-logorama.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/02/must-watch-logorama.php video advertising Branding Logo movie Movie trailers Oscars Video Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:29:37 -0500 Brooklyn On A Snowy Day Ok, so this may be a little gratuitous. But, its also a little bit of sunshine on a cold snowy day in NYC. http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/02/brooklyn-on-a-snowy-day.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2010/02/brooklyn-on-a-snowy-day.php covers David Letterman Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:49:28 -0500 Only 76 More Shopping Days Left... Shopping With Abbot Miller." The piece features a few graphic elements for the home.]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2009/10/only-76-more-shopping-days-lef.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2009/10/only-76-more-shopping-days-lef.php Culture Abbott Miller home decoration NYTimes.com shopping typography Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:31:42 -0500 Greg Grabowy: Outside Esquire has tried it, EW has tried it. Now Alexx Henry envisions the pages of Outside in motion.

Greg Grabowy shared this behind-the-scenes video with us on Facebook -- check it after the jump...

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ART & COPY is about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time.

With unprecedented access, filmmaker R.J. Cutler's new film THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE does for fashion what he did for politics in THE WAR ROOM, taking the viewer inside a world they only think they know.Â

]]> http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2009/08/trailer-park.php http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2009/08/trailer-park.php Culture advertising Anna Wintour documentary george lois Movie trailers Vogue Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:32:22 -0500 Sucked Me Right In Anyway: my discovery. I say mine because I found it. Perhaps I'm the hundredth today, but the discovery is all mine, at this moment. What are you going about Andrea? Well right. It's a shop! A Monocle shop! So what? What do you MEAN so what? It's a pop-up store curated entirely by the Monocle fairies with what looks like clothing, stationary, accessories and other minimalist-designer-fetishist-fashion whore novelties lovingly laid out for some boob like me to browse thru and lust over. The reason for my post is simply to point to a trend likely to continue but one I think is something to factor in when us Creatives are asked to attend yet another top-level "ideas" meeting. The boss is under pressure to conceive of yet another revenue-garnering product that your already over-worked design team just may have to work a billion hours on. Suggest a store! An onlline store is one thing, several of our zines already have one but usually we're hawking stuff we endorse: Monocle designs their own stuff. A book edition I'm already dying to purchase... they've launched a 3-D pop-up store (temporary by nature) that's clearly a clever way to rob the public and run away fast. Monocle Shop, when it arrives in NYC (already up in London and Brentwood CA) which is rumored to be imminent, can expect a little visit from THIS fan at any rate. It's got all the men's design-y stuff that GQ shills but with a darling little M for Monocle logo I find irresistible.

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