Dr Freebie Fresh brings you some nice Asian Mask illustrations today. The concept coming from our Bangkok studio, was using traditional Ramakien Thai masks as the inspiration. These drawings were early concept drawings for the later developed Thaiglish font.
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Catching up with our old buddy Cassidy today, he tells me he was helping work on this: “Over the past four decades, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds.”

Go check the trailer over at In a Dream.

Punishment Park is a 1971 film written and directed by Peter Watkins. It is a pseudo documentary of a British and West German film crew following National Guard soldiers and police as they round up a group of members of the counterculture across the desert. Punishment Park was shot in 16mm with a skeleton crew of 8 people and only 1 Eclair camera. The set was extremely minimal, using only a tent enclosed within a larger tent for the interior scenes. The rest was shot on location at the El Mirage Dry Lake in California. It took only two and a half weeks to shoot. The “newsreel” quality of the film was enhanced by desaturating the color and removing the traditional hard edge of the image through the use of Harrison diffusion filters. The production budget was only $66,000, with an additional $25,000 when the film was converted to 35mm.

-Wikipedia

Above are two excerpts from the beginning of the film:

What an amazing set of illustrations and drawings at the ‘In The Year 2000‘ photoset on Flickr. Not to be missed, browse this nice collection and check some of the credits and history behind some of these illustrations. Very Inspiring and these will always leave you with what a let down of what didn’t happen, hah.

Not smoking hot news, but better late than never. This 26 year old kid rocked some super royal and clean designs for the new English dividends. Its pretty bad ass when he is holding them all up, they form the coat of arms, super nice touch. – M&C

The New York Times has a short little interview with the couple behind this new house thats been getting a bit of press lately. For sure this is an interesting concept. But I love when they ask them about what about the comfort for say elderly people. They say, oh after a few months, its good, the old people are so much more healthy. Ok, nice answer but what about some jacked up broken hips that will come from trying to “crawl around on the floor like a snake.” I like the idea, but damn they really are 100% making it discomforting, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Old time buddy and former co-worker, Mr Eric is giving away a free font on his site called Greyscale Basic. For a freebie, its pretty nice so grab it while the offer stands. If you like like, end up using on that hot, daddy-fat-pockets new client of yours, drop the guy a few bucks so he can enjoy a nice lunch or something. Lets don’t all be take take take, lets give back this year, make 2008 the year of the give back, yeah? No? Don’t like fonts? Ok, I don’t like you either.

Still haven’t picked up this hot book? Ok ok, we understand, you still aren’t sure and want to know more. Well never fear, awhile back the motion graphic news site Motionographer posted a quality review here, saying “Every page is a treasure trove of inspiration and history…”. We hope this review helps you finally decide how to spend that hard earned cash, enjoy!

Dutch artist Harm van den Dorpel work can be described as some DYI, ready-made, surrealistically remixed aesthetic. His Sleepwalkers series are not to be missed.

Found through It’s Nice That.

If you’re in NYC in April, be sure not to miss Ryan McGinley show at the Team Gallery. I think he frames a certain innocence and rebelliousness of youth better than anything I’ve seen.

Holy Micro-Structure Batman! Complex Matters works with, among many disciplines, designers (see Sean Hanna and Assa Ashuach) producing intricate and flexible material lattices. It will be interesting to see the how the relationship evolves between aesthetics and performance with such hyper-specificity.