The Donut Project

For those of you who haven’t had their taste of summer vacation yet take this moment to travel from New York to San Francisco with this viral video from Levis. The catchy tune you are hearing is titled “Home” by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros coming from their 2009 album “Up From Below” (a personal favorite of mine). Also check out the route they traveled.

I think the video above is the best animated infographic I’ve ever seen.

It’s for the upcoming documentary Waiting for Superman, by the makers of An Inconvenient Truth. Waiting for Superman is a documentary about a United States public education system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth. The U.S. regularly finishes in the bottom chunk of developed nations’ education polls. The nation that vowed to leave no child behind is doing just that.

The animation was made by the creative-types at Buck. I’m really jealous that I didn’t make this infographic, for a film that I’d really like to do work for. Nice work gentlemen/gentleladies.

Find out more about the film, and watch the trailer at www.waitingforsuperman.com.

(via @typeis4lovers)

Hopefully due out in theaters this summer The Visual Language of Herbert Matter looks quite promising. If you are unfamiliar with the work of Herbert Matter shame on you. Get out your Megg’s History of Graphic Design and catch up.

THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF HERBERT MATTER is a revealing look at the fascinating life story of the highly influential mid-century modern design master. Known as a quintessential designer’s designer, Swiss born Herbert Matter is largely credited with expanding the use of photography as a design tool and bringing the semantics of fine art into the realm of applied arts — herbertmatter.net

via: grain edit

This amazing short animated film is the work of Canadian animator, Norman McLaren (1914–1987). Experimental Films like Boogie-Doodle serve as a great example of early exploration into film and motion graphics. Much of McLaren’s work was produced directly onto 35mm film, the reason for their simplicity. Mclaren is known for his animation, experimental film, and his pioneering role in visualizing music. Good Stuff. I recommend muting the sound and playing anything by Justice.

Tonight, 7:00 pm through Sunday, March 28th
Tower City Center, $10 for CIFF members, students and seniors; $12 for non-members
Visit the CIFF site for a listing of events, films and show times

One film of particular interest to us here at TDP, Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America, will have several showings throughout the duration of the film festival. Just a few months shy of the 40th anniversary, this film adeptly produces a timeline of a decade’s worth of events that progressively led to the shootings that occurred on May 4th at Kent State. Be sure to check it out!

One of North America’s five largest film festivals, The Cleveland International Film Festival, begins next Thursday, March 18th at 7:00 pm at Tower City Center.

Founded in 1977, the Cleveland International Film Festival has been presented every spring for over three decades. Ohio’s premier film event features over 240 films originating from close to 60 countries. Visiting filmmakers, panel discussions, and student screenings are all CIFF highlights.

Tickets are on sale now. For more information, including a listing of films that will be playing, visit the CIFF site.

Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight is coming to Cleveland! This Wednesday the Cleveland Museum of Art is screening the film at 5:30 and 7:15:

Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
Wednesday, March 10, 5:30 & 7:15
Gartner Auditorium, $8
Directed by Wendy Keys. Now in his 80s, the legendary graphic designer who co-founded New York magazine and concocted the “I♥NY” logo, is profiled in this “heartening” (The New York Times) documentary. Cleveland premiere. USA, 2009, COLOR, DVD, 73 MIN.
http://www.clemusart.com/events/film.aspx

By arthousefilmsonline.com

A new documentary, Typeface, about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum (www.woodtype.org) tells the story of the famous wood type manufacturer which closed in 1985, and is now being used as a museum. It is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton’s collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world.

See the website with more information, screenings, photos & videos: http://typeface.kartemquin.com.

Anyone up for a road trip to Wisconsin?

We posted the teaser trailer to Toy Story 3 a while back – but the real trailer has been released. I didn’t realize it’s been 10 years since Toy Story 2 was released in 1999. Crazy. Enjoy!

Visit the official Toy Story site.

This short film by C. Coy features Milton Glaser and his feelings on drawing. I could listen to Glaser talk for hours about pretty much anything.

(Via @formfiftyfive & @mikeyburton)