St. Bernard's Pass
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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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (F, 20s, white cardigan with pink sea horses, G train) http://bit.ly/116AVjA
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“I’ve never used a cellphone or computer.”
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The shadow by Francesco Francavilla.
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“I went to an all-white high school and an all-black college.”
“What was the main difference between them?”
“… the people.” -
Happy Birthday, Jimmy Stewart!
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I’ve passed by this doorman on about ten different occasions, and he’s been singing show tunes every single time. I know there’s someone out there...
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Auggie, is, the best.
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“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
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Among the problems Nabokov’s Lolita poses for the book designer, probably the thorniest is the popular misconception of the title character. She’s chronically miscast as a teenage sexpot—just witness the dozens of soft-core covers over the years. “We are talking about a novel which has child rape at its core,” says John Bertram, an architect and blogger who, three years ago, sponsored a Lolita cover competition asking designers to do better.
Now the contest is being turned into a book, due out in June and coedited by Yuri Leving, with essays on historical cover treatments along with new versions by 60 well-known designers, two-thirds of them women: Barbara deWilde, Jessica Helfand, Peter Mendelsund, and Jennifer Daniel, to name a few. They don’t shy away from frank sexuality, but they add layers of darkness and complication. And like Jamie Keenan’s cover—a claustrophobic room that morphs into a girl in her underwear—they provoke without asking readers to abdicate their responsibility.
(via Recovering Lolita — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers)
(via booklungs)
“A lovely, lyrical, lilting name … ” - Lolita, 1962
