Ten more wonderful things flicked off my desktop into your eyes.
1 — Always happy to see a new post from one of my favourite Instagram accounts, high.school.high – a wonderful collection of vintage school yearbooks. This 1974 cover from Woodlawn High School, Baltimore is quite lovely.
2 — Posterers gonna poster: Vasilis Marmatakis on creating the Poor Things art, and Matt Ferguson on the process behind his gorgeous poster celebrating 25 years (!) of The Phantom Menace.
3 — Reel Art Press’ Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art looks stunning. Time to clear some space on that coffee table.
4 — I’m very slowly collecting Penrose Annuals, but I can never remember what each one contains, so this online index spanning almost a century of volumes is quite handy.
5 — “The specific failure of the data-driven times we live in is that it’s impossible to turn ‘how many books those chairs sold me on’ into a profit and loss line item.” – Casey Johnston laments the loss of the big, comfy bookstore reading chair.
6 — We rewatched Danny Boyle’s Sunshine the other day. Not sure it entirely works, but fascinating to watch a young Cillian Murphy play a physicist whose mission is to save mankind by setting off the exact chain-reaction Oppenheimer was trying to avoid. And calling a ship “Icarus 2” will never not be funny. Pleasing to discover Gia Milinovich’s official production blog is still online. Wish more films would be this generous with pre-release behind-the-secenes coverage.
7 — Albert Lamorisse, director of Oscar-winning The Red Balloon, also invented Risk. Did everyone know this? I did not know this.
8 — Logo Rhythm, Jim K Davies and Jamie Ellul’s massive new book on the history of the band logo, looks a little bit fantastic. Very happy to see this surpass its kickstarter target.
9 — What are your favourite photography journals, periodicals, magazines, etc.? I’ve just discovered quarterly street photography mag Framelines, and it’s very much up my … um … street.
10 — Jodie Foster, 1984. Cooler than you will ever hope to be. Sorry.
This was originally posted on Meanwhile, a Substack dedicated to inspiration, fascination, and procrastination from the desk of designer Daniel Benneworth-Gray.
Collage by the author.