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My name is Brandon Bernard. I'm a graphic designer, storyboard and layout artist, and writer. I was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM, and lived in Los Angeles for 12 years. I'm currently in Austin, TX. "Design Intervention" is a virtual scrapbook of things that inspire me. Unless otherwise specified, the work here is not mine.
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Knotted Up
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A night of passion, a lifetime of responsibility.
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CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT COVERS!
Art by Steve Rude, Felipe Massafera and Paolo Rivera.
So excited for this...
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“I’m either going to be a construction worker, a scientist, or one of those people who help animals.”
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Another few day gap between client approvals so here’s some progress on a piece I’m just working on for Fün(ke).
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HOLY LOL, what an awful reveal.
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AMP by Fraser Shiers
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Neat moment at the Webbys last night. Fresh off the $1.1 billion sale of his company, David Karp was there with his mother, Barbara. Though I’d...
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This transcript of George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg, and Larry Kasdan coming up with ideas for the Indiana Jones series is so engrossing. As I’ve mentioned before, those were some of my favorite movies as a kid (still are), and it’s almost unbelievable how many scenes are laid out word for word in this conversation they have. It’s also fascinating to see which ideas didn’t make it through. If you’re a fan of Indy, you’ll dig it. Be warned, though: it’s really long.
This is AWESOME. It’s easy to bag on George Lucas’s storytelling skills after the Star Wars prequels debacle, but this transcript shows him at the peak of his game. Although it is a little interesting how formulaic it is, how he’s reduced it to an equation where cliffhangers occur every twenty minutes, etc. The difference here, I suppose, is that he KNOWS it’s a formula, and embraces it, while a lot of “storytellers” today muck about with the pieces, and craft formulaic plots without really understanding the arithmetic of what they’re doing. Like their craft or not, Lucas and Spielberg are irrefutable masters of it.
It’s interesting to spot which things manifest themselves in Raiders part and parcel (like the famous rolling boulder sequence), and which things sort of fell by the wayside or trickled down into the sequels: all the Orientalism and Shanghai scenes from Temple of Doom, the Marlene Dietrich-style German double-agent in Last Crusade, etc.
And speaking of romantic foils for Indiana, it’s fun to watch these guys stumble all around the Marion character, who turns out to be not only the best “Indy girl,” but one of the cinema’s most indelible heroines ever. In the end, it’s Lawrence Kasdan who finally zeroes in on the mentor’s daughter with a crucial piece of the map, tending bar in Nepal. Essentially, they have written Bogart’s “Rick” from Casablanca to be the love interest to Bogart’s “Dobbs” from Treasure of the Sierra Madre!
(via moncabinetdecuriosites)
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
- The Human Stain, Philip Roth (2000)
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy (2006)
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith (2000)
- True History Of The Kelly Gang, Peter Carey (2000)
- 2666, Roberto Bolaño (2008)
- Tree Of Smoke, Denis Johnson (2007)
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower (2009)
- Fortress Of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem (2003)
- Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
- Runaway, Alice Munro (2004)
- Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald (2001)
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
- The Art Of Fielding, Chad Harbach (2011)
- Netherland, Joseph O’Neill (2008)
- The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (2007)
- The Line Of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
- Saturday, Ian Mcewan (2005)
- The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers (2012)
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)
Well I’ve read three of these. I’d better get crankin’.
Click the link to download a zip file with this year’s spring music mix, “Spring Sermon.”
Hold on tightly, because this one really is a mix-up: Duke Ellington plays Grieg, while Itzhak Perlman plays Gershwin. Arcade Fire and the Turtles wax nostalgic and satirical (respectively) on the theme of suburbs. Sister Ella preaches on the topic of sin (in case you’re wondering, she’s again’, not for) and Sister Dusty expounds on the decidedly worldly allure of a certain preacher’s son. Meanwhile, ol’ Rev. Blue Eyes advises us to turn our umbrellas upside down to accept blessings in disguise, while Brother Louis takes us way back to the Old Testament with the story of Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego. Brothers Bobby, Billy and Bruce each get their turn at the pulpit, and even the Beach Boys get into the spirit of things, purporting to know The Answer — although one suspects it has more to do with bikinis, deuce coupes, and waves than it does with that other Trinity. And, no, that’s not Bernard Herrmann’s score for the opening title sequence from Psycho, but the equally savage and blood-soaked sacrificial dance from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. As jarring as it may be, the award for most surprising track on here has to go to the Temptations (and what collection of sermons would be complete without those?) singing “My Girl” auf Deutsch — I bet you can still sing along, though! Even the Fits on this mix are Divine. So whether this season means Passover, Easter, or Cancun to you, the perfect musical accompaniment is a click away…
Logo Design Inspiration
A selection of great logo designs created by Hungarian graphic designer Martzi Hegedűs. Every single graphic looks well designed and unique.
More logo designs by Martzi Hegedűs on WE AND THE COLOR
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Worth a look! Some really incredible stuff…
“Holiday Mix” might be a bit of a misnomer: in fact, I specifically stripped this mix of any Christmas-specific songs. No carols or hymns; no secular Santa songs. Ok, there is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” but that doesn’t really reference a particular holiday. It’s probably better to think of this as a winter mix that is simply being offered to you in the spirit of the season.
The musical selection here ranges from old school rock to new school rock, from big band jazz to a track from Star Wars (because I’m a dork like that). You’ll hear Radical Face and Faces on Film. You’ll hear two Matts: Matt Costa and Matt Pond PA. You’ll hear Arctic Monkeys, Dr. Dog, and two mononymous artists — Beck and Feist — as well as a dozen others.
So hurry up and download this before the world ends! And if that doesn’t happen, these tunes are meant to accompany your winter long after “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has become passé.
Experimental Photography
A selection of atmospheric photography by David Keochkerian. The photographer is playing with different effects such as long exposure, manual blending or infrared photography to create such surrealist views of landscapes and architecture.
More experimental photographs by David Keochkerian on WE AND THE COLOR
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Not that any of my followers need this advice, but you may enjoy nodding your head vigorously in agreement.
If anyone is interested, here’s the link to download my Fall Collection music mix, featuring tracks by the Shins, Ray LaMontagne, the Jam, Ben Howard, and Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra, among others. 20 tracks in all.
Sorry there’s no album artwork to go along with this; maybe for the next mix I put together.
Happy listening, and happy autumn!
A wonderful video of Pentagram designer, Daniel Weil’s sketchbooks. I found it in the middle of some work-related research and it’s just a good reminder that some of the best things you find aren’t even the things you were originally looking for and that all things, no matter how disparate, are inevitably linked.
Ugh! I’m visiting New York right now, and seeing this logo everywhere, and I hate it. It looks like someone tried to print something on a napkin using a dot matrix printer from 1991.
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However, this article helps me find some logic for what Wolff Olins has done; aesthetically, though, it still sickens me…
What do you think?
Candy text effect - Free PSD
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Hi, followers! I wanted to announce a new blog that I created on Tumblr called “Shell of the Nut: a microfiction brewery,” where I’ll be posting original works of short-short fiction (to those of you familiar with the term “flash fiction,” happy National Flash Fiction Day to you).
I’ll be continuing to share awesome graphic design here at Design Intervention, but The Shell is my way of satisfying my more literary urges, by posting stories you can easily start and finish reading while you wait for your coffee order to be up.
So swing by and check it out! I would love it if some of you followed my new blog.
And, by the way, constructive feedback — as well as submissions! — are encouraged. I look forward to hearing from the wordsmiths among you…
