How much the Mad Men characters would earn today...

An infographic by Carrington College CA Online shows the careers of the Mad Men characters if they worked in the modern world, and how the industry has changed since then. However comments below on the original page (via 'Designtaxi') hint at discrepancies in the College's estimations for the modern wages, saying most definitely a lot of the characters would earn more than predicted here.

Betty Boop in Hell

Oyster - a film by Marie Schuller

OYSTER (Marie Schuller, Anita De Bauch, Vivienne Westwood, Dans La Vie) from Anita De Bauch on Vimeo.

"An outbreak of composed cool exhibitionism. The ratting of wheels, the hum of the night, the baring down of speed and implosion of shock, the raw explosion of nudity is a comfort on the Central Line.

"Directed by Marie Schuller, a London based filmmaker, Oyster is a raw and unhinged documentation of exhibitionism in the simplest form. Blatantly thrown in the British face of public transport, Anita de Bauch gets naked. Commissioned for London’s Fringe! Film Fest, iF showcases the edited version whilst the raw footage will premiere on April 15th during the festival in London.

"Marie Schuller, a London based director, is an internationally recognized director with film pieces screened at numerous film festivals including La Joalla, NYC Fashion Film Festival, and ASVOFF where she received the “Best Director of Fashion” award. For the past two years she has been working for SHOWstudio as Nick’s Knight’s fashion film editor as she continues to contribute as a filmmaker."

- imaginefashion.com

Word of the Day

Sprezzatura (Italian pronunciation: [sprettsaˈtura]) is an Italian word originating from Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, where it is defined by the author as "a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it". It is the ability of the courtier to display "an easy facility in accomplishing difficult actions which hides the conscious effort that went into them". Sprezzatura has also been described "as a form of defensive irony: the ability to disguise what one really desires, feels, thinks, and means or intends behind a mask of apparent reticence and nonchalance".

The word has entered the English language; the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "studied carelessness".

(cited from Wikipedia)

Chicken Town

Jack Royle - Chicken Town from LIKE-MYFLEX on Vimeo.

"A short film featuring Jack Royle. Massive thanks to Becky, Crispin, and http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifChris for their help on this. Directed, Filmed + Edited by Emily McDonald"

Also,
An interesting film by Jonathan Leder, seen on Hunger, Rankin's new magazine/website.

A photo for every day in 2011

Time Lighbox has given us (I think) the best of the 'Year in Photos' collections around. It is encyclopedic in scope, and includes plenty of incredible photography and jogs your memory of those events you may've possibly forgotten from all that time ago...

Photomontager: Toshiko Okanoue

Was looking at utopian and dystopian fantasies using collage on the Phaidon website.
This girl's were particularly interesting, more dystopian-y.. Born in 1928, grew up in Tokyo, she went to fashion school where she was introduced to a traditional Japanese collage style, and then to Max Ernst's collages. Then, in 1953, she held her own exhibition, which included 50 or so collages (below are a few off Google).
After marrying in 1957 her collage production ceased, and it was only until 2000, aged 72 that she held 'Okanoue Toshiko Photo Collage: Droplets of Dreams' at the Dai-Ichi Mutual Insurance South Gallery in Tokyo.

French architect - Fernand Pouillon

An architect around the 1970s who designed some futuristic luxury residences and hotels in Algeria, like:

The Seraidi Hotel, Annaba, Algeria.






















































































I found this b+w image first in my research for something else. Photo by Guy Le Querrec, 1970. From Magnum Photos.

Other designs:



Portfolio Station Sanitaire in Marseilles.

February Fireworks

[from http://hottmilk.tumblr.com/]

It's February and...

1. I'm reading...






















and have reignited my typeface fanaticism.





























[From Designspiration]

2. I've learnt that API in computing terms stands for 'Application Programming Interface', i.e. it's like a set of operating system functions of one programme enabling it for use by another. Was looking on www.conditionone.com about a new 'immersive video' technique patented by these guys and only available on iPads at the moment.

3. There's a big David Shrigley show at the Hayward. And I need to update my website.