Wendy McClure, parodist and scribe of weight loss culture (”I’m Not the New Me“), posted the vintage Weight Watchers diet cards and commentary from the aforementioned book on a dedicated site of their own to permanently shine, candyboots. Keep clicking through, some of these are too funny.
thanks Christian!
Quoted this week by Influencia, there is now in France a new actor in trends, research and anticipation : the Jak Lab. The Jak Lab is a quarterly publication that you can get for free on the web site of a communication agency Just a Kiss . Just a Kiss was created quite recently in Paris by Isabelle Carron and Arnaud Pigounides. The ambition of the Jak Lab is to open large the vision about upcoming trends and future. Concepted as a laboratory , defining a leading topic, the Jak Lab magazine opens its pages to a variety of persons coming from street culture, music, arts, journalism, photography, advertising, innovation, trends… This quarter’s issue is about development, sustainable and desirable. Read there contributions from Stephane Pocrain - DraftFCB, Jean-Yves Leloup, Soline d’Aboville - Dior, Brigitte Mantel - Getty Images, Cécile d’Argy - Girlsatwork…have fun, enjoy and just a kiss !
Photojournalist James Nachtwey won one of the 3 TED prizes this year. The winners get $100K to continue their work and also get to make a wish, that the influential TED community is then tasked to help bring to fruition. Watch his acceptance speech here. The other 2 winners were Bill Clinton and E.O. Wilson.
To any non-design-aware types, the fact that the new documentary Helvetica, about a Swiss typeface that is turning 50 (a fact also celebrated in a new exhibition at MOMA, “50 Years of Helvetica”), is enjoying sold-out screenings basically everywhere it goes may seem a little odd. But designers and design-o-philes on whom the ubiquity and, well, hegemonic rule of that little font for almost all of those 50 years is not lost probably don’t think it so strange.
Smart, sharp, elegant, reserved, refined…the quiet type (n.p.i.) - understated yet profoundly powerful. Typography is sexy. Typefaces, ligatures, kerning, positioning, descenders and ascenders….hot stuff. Finally it seems that typography is having it’s day in the sun, getting the long overdue recognition it deserves on the silver screen. Be sure that many more will be jumping on the bandwagon of appreciation now that it’s ok to admit you like it without being jeered into quiescence and castigated to the corner with the other freaks & geeks. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if font-knowledge and appreciation becomes a status symbol, the new calling card of sensitivity and sophistication, like ordering a Ketel One was about 7 years ago.
And for those already hip to the nerd hotness quotient, I would suspect that these screenings (assuming you can get into one - the upcoming screening at USC sold out in 1 day at $25 bucks a pop), will be a hotbed of nerdy hotties. Get your nerd on.
