West Side Story > Romeo and Juliet
Jesus Christ Superstar > The New Testament
I really believe this

Saul Bass, 1964

Close, that’s a Seymour Chwast

Surprising and true!

That's a poster that Woody Pirtle of Pentagram did in 1988 for Amnesty International in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Woody died last Sunday at 81.

In "Final Cut," the book about auteurist director Michael Cimino's making of "Gates of Heaven," a production so disastrous that it practically brought down United Artists, there is a funny passage where they remember that the movie he really wanted to make was The Fountainhead

Not yet! But not surprised by the F-head influence. Rand picked architecture as the subject explicitly because it sat at the intersection of so many things: art v business, vision v compromise etc. And movie directors like to think they occupy that same position.

Not the first time someone has rewritten your 2012 story, not plagiarism but in an ironic way a demonstration of the basic thesis

Yes, I clicked on "The interview that made me want to quit my job" and could not for the life of me see what the point was. Now we know, I guess

Doggett's papers have just been made available to researchers at Yale's Haas Family Library library.yale.edu/news/papers-...

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Every once in a while I refer back to something I posted on the "old, old Design Observer" (to use ‪@danielgray.com‬'s term, i.e., c. 2005-7) and if I have the time I read the comments. I'm always struck by how measured and thoughtful and fun they are, with so many people participating