Jun 2009

Design documentaries

Milton Glaser

Sometimes I forget how much I love film, a compelling narrative combined with well executed elements of composition, light and sound — though I also have a thing for hanging out in old cinemas late at night wired on caffeine. Anyway, I’ve had the fortune of having a week off between freelance contracts so taken […]

Jun 2009

Mrs Eaves at Typo Berlin

Gemma O'Brien

Late last year Gemma O’Brien, an Australian graphic design student, executed a popular response to a university design brief based on the themes of vandalism and graffiti. She was inspired by my favourite designer, Stefan Sagmesiter, and named herself after my favourite typeface, Mrs Eaves, by Zuzana Licko. She was interviewed abut the project on […]

Jun 2009

Microsoft unveil Project Natal

Project Natal

I just finished reading the live blog on Kotaku and watching the delayed video stream on xbox.com of the Microsoft press conference at E3. It was so much better than last year’s, one of the best I’ve seen — I think it will be hard for Sony and Nintendo to better it and they keep […]