Monthly Archives: December 2009

Jan Steinhilber on the joy of sketches and why he’d like learn to make a good risotto

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Communication Arts has just interviewed Jan Steinhilber for its online “Insights” column, a conversation that touched on everything from scuba diving to Steve McQueen to risotto. Here’s a little excerpt:
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CA: Is there anything you would not digitally retouch?
Jan: No. I always use every means I have to improve the strength and the impact of an [...]

Last Montauk dispatch from Walter Iooss


Walter and his family headed south for the season as of yesterday, but he sent me these photos—all crimson and winter blue—before they departed. This will be the last we’ll see of Montauk through Walter’s eyes…for now.

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Best & worst holiday cards


James Cooper of Saatchi & Saatchi and Brian Morrissey of Adweek have posted their picks for the best and worst ad-agency holiday cards over at the AdFreak blog. Is it a little Grinchy to judge expressions of holiday cheer? Maybe. Is their survey exhaustive? Probably not. But whatever, it’s interesting to see what people come [...]

The return of Vincent Laforet’s “Nocturne,” and the launch of a contest


Vincent sent out a note this morning that his film Nocturne, shot with Canon’s 1D MKIV film in downtown L.A., is once again live on Canon’s site. “Happy holidays everyone! This is my Xmas present from Canon in terms of being able to move into 2010 w/o looking back,” he wrote. Vincent reposted the movie [...]

Coconut cake with chocolate chunks


I know this isn’t a food blog, but I couldn’t resist posting a link to this recipe for coconut cake with chocolate chunks and coconut drizzle. It’s from the January 2010 issue of Bon Appetit, and Hans Gissinger—who knows a few things about stunning sweets—photographed the delightful dessert in question.
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Jim Fiscus launches new site, showcases stills and motion

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Andrea Smith, Jim’s studio manager, had mentioned to me this fall that Jim was cooking up a new website, and I’m happy to report it’s now gone live. The URL is the same—FiscusPhoto.com—but the new site, which Jim created in collaboration with liveBooks, features both stills and motion.
From what I could gather by obsessively hitting [...]

Video: Vincent Laforet shoots Hudson honeys for New York mag


Theirs is a love story so incredible, even Strifetime—I mean, Lifetime—would find it implausible if it hadn’t actually happened. Last January, Ben Bostic and Laura Zych were passengers on US Airways flight 1549, which was forced to land on the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese. They were strangers at the time, [...]

The snowstorm from Walter Iooss’ window, and more


Walter sent me these yesterday afternoon. The snow had stopped falling by then, and here in Manhattan, the city was filled with the sounds of shovels wearily scraping against concrete and car tires spinning through slushy puddles. Things looked and felt a little different over in Montauk, where Walter shot these images “from a.m. to [...]

Nadav Kander’s exclusive nudes


Print may no longer be the mainstream medium of choice, but it’s still a star in the world of small-edition publishing. Last week, I wrote about Arkitip, which produces unique sets of magazines in collaboration with artists and others. And today marks the debut of the new issue of Nomenus Quarterly, which is published online [...]

A tribute to Cookie magazine


At Grids, the official SPD blog, Robert Newman pays tribute to “the tasty brilliance of Cookie magazine”:
“Children’s/parents magazine Cookie debuted in November 2005, and left the Earth in October 2009. In that four-year run they established a look that was both playful and elegant, funky and chic, with tightly-refined typography and state-of-the-art illustration and photography,” [...]