The Donut Project

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)

Public screening of classic movies can give a designer the opportunity to recreate movie posters the way they should have been done from the beginning. Brandon Schaefer of seekandspeak.com has redesigned posters for some popular movies. Overall they have a nice illustrative feel and capture the essence & feel of the movie.

Between these posters and yesterday’s Movie posters for minimalists, and other movie poster redesigns I’ve seen – maybe Hollywood should take note. A movie poster should be more than photos of the three stars doing something wacky on a colored background with a Gill Sans Ultra Bold headline.

I saw Burn After Reading exclusively because of it’s Saul Bass-esque poster. Unfortunately, that movie kind of sucked.

See the rest of the Seek & Speak movie posters here.

Check out this wicked set of movie poster remakes. This graphic exercise by ilikegraphics is an exercise in minimalism.

This is my not too serious minimalist poster series for cult films. The vague rules were a circle, lowercase text & one or two images (not from the film) that relate to something in the film (which will not probably make sense unless you’ve seen the film!)

See all of the posters on flickr.

Kristen Caston showed me this gorgeous stop-motion series of opening titles for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. The entire video is real, no computer generated special effects. Mad props go to the BYU design students and faculty for creating this video.

For full credits – visit http://vimeo.com/6382511

COOL BEANS!

“The nation’s largest and most highly-attended film festival needed to attract both new and returning audience members for its 35th annual showing. To stimulate curiosity and encourage people to find the unexpected at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), Seattle studio WONGDOODY created silhouettes of odd creatures and bizarre shapes and set them against jewel-toned backgrounds. Leaving a lot to the imagination, the images encouraged viewers to consider the unpredictable, much like they might find in the films screened at SIFF. A TV spot (by Digital Kitchen) and in-theater trailer used animated sequences that feature the same surreal, silhouette-style imagery.”

View the campaign and more at www.wongdoody.com. Spotted on Communication Arts.

Art & Copy is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time – people who’ve profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising’s “creative revolution” of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney and others featured in Art & Copy were responsible for “Just Do It,” “I Love NY,” “Where’s the Beef?,” “Got Milk,” “Think Different,” and brilliant campaigns for everything from cars to presidents. They managed to grab the attention of millions and truly move them. Visually interwoven with their stories, TV satellites are launched, billboards are erected, and the social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce, and human emotion.

Visit artandcopyfilm.org for more information and screenings.