STICKERS: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art

via fourandfive.posterous.com

STICKERS includes over 1600 artists such as Warhol, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Swoon. Music by Radiohead, The White Stripes, UNKLE, Moby, Fujiya & Miyagi, Nite Club, Ror-Shak.

What Are You Curious About? Discovery Channel Launches Curiosity

Premiering this Sunday, August 7th at 8pm, Discovery Channel launches the ambitious series Curiosity with a companion website at Curiosity.com. 

Curiosity asks and answers the most fundamental questions facing the world today. Each episode of Curiosity will focus on a single enduring question in science, technology, and society. As is always the case, one single question cascades into several more, making each episode of Curiosity a rich and textured experience. From the micro to the macro, we tackle provocative and insightful questions.

Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Questioned how we age? Asked what makes us truly happy? More than just a landmark television series, Curiosity is an adventure of discovery, an expedition to uncover the truths behind life's most challenging questions.

I have high hopes for the series, it has the potential to be another great source of creative thinking fuel. If the following teaser clips are an indication of what is to come we should all tune in to the series and join the conversation on the website. 

Simon Sinek: If You Don't Understand People, You Don't Understand Business

"We're not good at everything, we're not good by ourselves," says Simon Sinek at the 99% Conference. Our ability to build trust and relationships is the key to our survival as a race, and to thriving as ideamakers.

 via the99percent.com

In this wide-ranging talk, ethnographer and leadership expert Simon Sinek discusses the importance of trust, authenticity, and meaning. Sinek argues that as individuals and companies, everything that we say and do is a symbol of who we are. And it is only when we communicate our beliefs authentically that we can attract others to our cause, and form the bonds that will empower us to achieve truly great things.

If this inspires you, you should check out Simon's TED Talk and his book Start with Why.

The Medium is the Massage: Marshall McLuhan and his legacy

This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Marshall McLuhan's birth. The media visionary was ahead of his time and to commemorate the centennial many current visionaries have taken a look at his legacy:

• Brain Pickings introduces us to Marshall McLuhan Speaks, a comprehensive website full of McLuhan content, and shares video of Tom Wolfe discussing McLuhan.

• Open Culture brings us Norman Mailer & Marshall McLuhan debating "the electronic age" & Marshall McLuhan "The World is a Global Village." 

• The Guardian's newly launched podcast The Big Ideas explores the communication theorist most famous line and the typo that inspired the title of this post. 

• The Globe and Mail proclaim The return of Marshall McLuhan.

• Nieman Journalism Labs takes a look at McLuhan in his time and ours. 

And lastly, fellow Canadian and idiosyncratic writer Douglas Coupland looks at the life of McLuhan like only he can convey in the fantastic quasi-biography Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work.

A History of the Title Sequence

WINNER OF THE VIMEO AWARDS 2012 in CATEGORY MOTION GRAPHICS! Thanks so much for voting everyone! Watch a short 1 min. making of here, which was shown at the awards: vimeo.com/44046584 Graduation project 2011 Designed as a possible title sequence for a fictitious documentary, this film shows a history of the title sequence in a nutshell. The sequence includes all the names of title designers who had a revolutionary impact on the history and evolution of the title sequence. The names of the title designers all refer to specific characteristics of the revolutionary titles that they designed. This film refers to elements such as the cut and shifted characters of Saul Bass' Psycho title, the colored circles of Maurice Binder's design for Dr. No and the contemporary designs of Kyle Cooper and Danny Yount. This title sequence refers to the following designers and their titles: Georges Méliès - Un Voyage Dans La Lune, Saul Bass - Psycho, Maurice Binder - Dr. No, Stephen Frankfurt - To Kill A Mockingbird, Pablo Ferro - Dr. Strangelove, Richard Greenberg - Alien, Kyle Cooper - Seven, Danny Yount - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / Sherlock Holmes CREDITS Direction and Animation: Jurjen Versteeg / www.synple.nl Music and sound design: Lea Jurida / www.jurida.com Many thanks to all the people who helped me realizing this project! For some more info on the concept and the production process, please check out the interview on 'Forget the Film, Watch The Titles': http://bit.ly/pzvXXE Watch a short 1min. making of here: vimeo.com/44046584

Designed by Jurjen Versteeg as a possible title sequence for a fictitious documentary, this film shows a history of the title sequence in a nutshell. The sequence includes all the names of title designers who had a revolutionary impact on the history and evolution of the title sequence. The names of the title designers all refer to specific characteristics of the revolutionary titles that they designed. 

This film refers to elements such as the cut and shifted characters of Saul Bass' Psycho title, the colored circles of Maurice Binder's design for Dr. No and the contemporary designs of Kyle Cooper and Danny Yount. 

This title sequence refers to the following designers and their titles:

Georges Méliès - Un Voyage Dans La Lune, Saul Bass - Psycho, Maurice Binder - Dr. No, Stephen Frankfurt - To Kill A Mockingbird, Pablo Ferro - Dr. Strangelove, Richard Greenberg - Alien, Kyle Cooper - Seven, Danny Yount - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / Sherlock Holmes

(via Quipsologies)

I love title sequences and this short film is a master class in the artform. Jurjen should use this film to create a Kickstarter project and actually produce the documentary.