Designers are people too

Yesterday I went to MoMA and happened upon their collection of all the covers of Emigre magazine. Designer's paradise! Hee, this one was quite cheeky too:



I actually went there to see the Jeff Wall exhibit, which was absolutely lovely. It's so refreshing to see real life portrayed in art, in full size, in full detail. Ok much of it was staged real life, but nonetheless, it was something recognizable and more relatable than abstract squares or interpretive conceptual video stuff. Also, having the photos mounted on lightboxes made them so alive, such that even the weeds growing from a sidewalk seemed interesting and poignant. There was this one photograph (heh I typed painting by accident; they kinda had the same aura about them) called "Eviction", which showed an aerial view of lower class suburban street, where in the middle there were two officers grabbing a man on a lawn and a woman running towards them. That was the focus, but you see three doors down a man holding his son with another son on his bike just peddling along. Then you go deeper in, and you see there's a monorail in the background, and between the monorail and the roofs of the houses in the foreground you see another street, where other people are just going about their day. Beyond that you see the taller buildings and a bit of the skyline. This is a suburban neighborhood, this is life! It was magnificent.

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Random bits of designery ephemera:
- Children and Cameras, animated by Chris Ware!

- A type designer talks about his work, including stuff about using the first font digitizing machine. It's like hearing a master craftsman at work.

(both via design info)