Consumption: December 2005

On the Web

• Titles Designed by Saul Bass: Complete list of the films Bass worked on, with lots of information and images.
• Lazy Sunday: SNL rap video extolling the decadent joys of cupcakes and Narnia.
• Art Chantry: Pearls Are a Nuisance: Video from this fall’s massive exhibition at the Philip Slein Gallery in St. Louis.
• Superdickery: Absurd and hilarious comic book covers of yesteryear.
• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web: Robert Bringhurst’s indispensible tome makes its acquaintance with CSS.

In the Stereo

• Kálmán Balogh: The Art of the Gipsy Cimbalom
• Shannon Wright: Flightsafety
• Tribes of Neurot: Grace
• Shellac: 1000 Hurts
• Shellac: At Action Park
• Hüsker Dü: Zen Arcade
• Harold Budd with Zeitgeist: She Is a Phantom
• Various Artists: Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection
• Ennio Morricone: Crime and Dissonance

In Print

• Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann