I was thinking yesterday about Criterion Collection covers and wondering who designs them. Is it freelance? Or do they have an office? Do the directors get any say in their covers if it’s a Criterion release?
I came across Eric Skillman’s design process blog, Cozy Lummox, which answered a lot of my questions. He works as a designer for the Criterion Collection and his blog offers a detailed account of the process of making a cover (and inserts, onscreen menus, etc.) from beginning to end. He shows different permutations of the cover as it progresses, some of which look better than the final, with explanations of why they didn’t work/communicate. It’s great! The two images above are final covers he’s worked on.
While looking into this I also found:
I saw Helvetica on Thursday at the Naro, re-made my portfolio site this weekend. I’m feeling no more talented, but more interested in design. So, I thought I’d share some good work I’ve come across lately:
Audrey Templier – Really liked the experimental typography and duotone work
*Also, this just broke my hopes – I wanted to create the best calender ever for 2008. I seriously just wrote down a hazy plan to make one and then I came across “Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar.” I couldn’t even top this title, although I can promise that mine will be current.
Cat Power at the Norva Sunday night –
My Expectations (low): Fingerless Gloves and a tan
Reality: She was good! And she delivered on the fingerless gloves.
Also, I got to accompany Dan to his friend’s wedding on Saturday. It was at the Poe Museum – very pretty and beardy. I think I love an excuse to dress up. I don’t have a camera anymore, so here is a picture I found of me at the wedding! As you can see I was a vital participant.
I found this image via ilike. Apparently if you see the dancer moving clockwise you are “right brained” and if the dancer appears to be rotating counter-clockwise then you are “left brained”. I initially decided it absolutely must be rotating clockwise, but when I closed my eyes and looked again it was going counter-clockwise. I put in some time on wikipedia and read that the crap I’ve heard regarding being one or the other and what that means is mostly garbage, kind of like horoscopes!
It is important to note that—while functions are indeed lateralized—these lateralizations are trends and do not apply to every person in every case. Short of having undergone a hemispherectomy (the removal of an entire cerebral hemisphere) there are no “left-brained only” or “right-brained only” people.
Moving on, this has nothing to do with lefts and rights, but brains. I found these great and numerous illustrations of “brain maps”. They are by a guy named Dr. Alesha Sivartha, taken from ‘The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man’. Now I haven’t thoroughly read this or anything really, I’m more a skimmer and a take what I wanter (that’s why I love wikipedia), but the drawings are NEAT.
