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Amazing.

On the occasion of the release of The Arbor today, here are some of my photographs of the Buttershaw Estate that I took while researching for the design of the poster for the film. Poster here: http://www.impawards.com/intl/uk/2010/arbor_xlg.html

Cool. I guess this is more about painting than photography. Either way, I like it a lot.

Absolutely lovely selection of posters for the the new Aronofsky film. I love posters like this, but they rarely make it through to actually being released, especially when big box office draws like Natalie Portman are in the film.

The media story du jour. I don't know why tabloid editors give their journalists access to the internet. Someone whose job is to blur the line between fact and fiction isn't going to have the analytical skills to make sensible judgements. On the other hand, when all your news is made up, I suppose it doesn't matter if your sources are too.

Weird cropping on this Wall Street poster. Looks wrong. I think it must have something to do with contractuals.

Photographs of the Stasi prison. Totally unsettling images.

Ooh, this looks good. Not coming to my city though.

Very interesting. Much of the time, especially with a rebrand, it's not the logo that is critical, but the commitment with which the rebrand is undertaken. History is littered with bad choices in design normally caused by the naturally occurring aesthetic conservatism in large corporations (this is another topic entirely) but what normally happens is that marketing talking-heads are wheeled out to justify it (and the new Gap logo would be easy to justify - more approachable, new era, and so forth) and then future commentary simply ignored. Perhaps this is a sign of the new era of community involvement, even in the private sector. Either way, it's shockingly weak from Gap. I don't think their brand would have suffered hugely from the new logo, not in the long run, but I think it will suffer more from their lack of cahones. It's certainly cost them money they could have spent on ads.

Ai Weiwei's installation at the tate looks amazing.

Film poster of the day. I know nothing about this film, but the poster makes me want to find out more. The very definition of an excellent poster.

Another crazy poster for DOUCHEBAG. I've no idea what this film is, but I'm loving their commitment to naive art.

Film poster of the day - stunning use of watercolour.

Ha ha, it does look like they are about to start snogging.

This is what I've been working on lately. It's an amazing, original film. Highly recommended.

Sigh. Every so often I see some work by Marian Bantjes and it makes me want to give up everything and go and live in the woods. She is very, very good at what she does.