Saul Bass

Today Google is circulating a “tribute” video to the graphic designer Saul Bass— somewhat randomly, since he died in 1996, and would've been 93 today. Bass's work defined American modernist cool circa 1955-75, and it was everywhere during that period: movie titles and posters, book jackets, and some of the most famous corporate logos ever. I'm not embedding Google's advertisement, so instead here are two of the greatest movie title sequences ever, from Spartacus:



And from Grand Prix:



Take a look at his IMDB credits— if a movie from the 50's-60's especially had cool titles, he probably did them.

A lot of hip LP covers

Jazz specialist for the US Library of Congress, writer, and blogger Larry Appelbaum has a couple of huge galleries of LP covers which you should be looking at right now. Emphasis is on jazz of the 50's, but there's plenty of other fun stuff including Metallica, Black Sabbath, and my favorite band, the Butthole Surfers.

I'm pretty sure this one- "Contrasts in Hi-Fi" is in my dad's old record collection. More after the break-visit Larry on Facebook to see the complete galleries with hundreds of covers.

Sweet Reaper to be sold at Hot Topic!

Apparently Hot Topic has ordered some buttons with this design of mine. I'm currently developing a whole line of these featuring adorable monsters, Japanese warriors, and a variety of deadly creatures.

Poster for February gigs at Tony Starlight's.

I put this together this afternoon.