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NYTimes.com has a nice interactive piece up today, called, "Shopping With Abbot Miller." The piece features a few graphic elements for the home.… MORE
Trailer Park

Trailer Park

Two relevant doc trailers to help get you through your day: 

ART & COPY is 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.

With unprecedented access, filmmaker R.J. Cutler's new film THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE does for fashion what he did for politics in THE WAR ROOM, taking the viewer inside a world they only think they know. 
Persepolis

Persepolis

I finally Netflix-ed Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's moving autobiographical graphic novel turned animated film. Some of the night scenes outside with the tanks and the marches as well as the scene of Persepolis' family going down the stairs of their building towards the basement, with their expressionist shadows, were reminiscent of the illustrator David Cowles' work; the sharp angled silhouettes against the charcoal textured background. The entire movie is hand drawn, giving each line so much character and personality, and mostly done in black and white. It's nice to be reminded of the power of a stripped down color palette and amazing to know that in this computer generated era, there is still work being done in the old fashioned way.

Alice Alves, Deputy Art Director Fortune
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