The Distillery is a letterpress and design studio based in Darlinghurst, Sydney.

In November, the studio held an inaugural ‘Live at the Distillery’ event, where they brought together live music and creative design talks.

This letterpress-printed vinyl record invitation takes influence from old record collections—psychedelic picture discs, 45’s and their amazing patterned sleeves. Letterpress printing, like vinyl are both tactile things and this is a reminder of that.

See more HERE

Peter Clarkson’s stationary solutions for ethical design agency Thomas Matthews during his time working there.See more HERE.

Peter Clarkson’s stationary solutions for ethical design agency Thomas Matthews during his time working there.

See more HERE.

How To Sing: Lilli Lehmann’s Illustrated Guide, 1902

How To Sing: Lilli Lehmann’s Illustrated Guide, 1902

Drip.FM has huge potential to present a sustainable music distribution model that is not only fairer than the current disaster of cloud music streaming, but also makes it’s users feel like they are genuinely supporting the artists and labels that they love. With Ghostly International (the service founders) and Stones Throw signed up to the service, it’s only a matter of time before larger labels have a go.Take a look here.

Drip.FM has huge potential to present a sustainable music distribution model that is not only fairer than the current disaster of cloud music streaming, but also makes it’s users feel like they are genuinely supporting the artists and labels that they love.

With Ghostly International (the service founders) and Stones Throw signed up to the service, it’s only a matter of time before larger labels have a go.

Take a look here.

Branding for ‘Meet The Greek’ restaurant but Australian agency End Of Work.

Excellent bottle label design from Edmundson Martin.

Excellent bottle label design from Edmundson Martin.

Excellent branding and identity work for James Read’s tanning product by Studio Makgill

Some favourite New Yorker covers from 2012.
See all of them HERE.

For the year of 2012 I set myself a challenge to see 10 films per month that I hadn’t seen before. After managing it, I’ve now become ‘that guy’ and compiled a list of 10 that were particularly fantastic. Read about them below: [[MORE]] JOHN CARTER / 2012 / Director: Andrew Stanton John Carter was not a good film, but neither was it an entirely bad film. It did some things well, it certainly struggled with many other things. But the quality of the final product is not why it’s it on my list of top films from this year…which seems strange but bear with me. John Carter became a kind of a catalyst for discussion about the Hollywood system of film making…so many people seemed to have theories on what went wrong and how it could have been fixed. And in some ways it’s what the film did best - got film fanatics talking constructively about film making. I got totally sucked in with articles, interviews, IMDb, I even read the first of the John Carter books. I have my theories of what went wrong and indeed what went right. Being part of that on-going discussion for at least a month made the John Carter experience one that makes it a top film from 2012… for me anyway. IMDb / RT / MUBI SLEEPWALK WITH ME / 2012 / Director: Mike Burbiglia It’s so evident that Sleepwalk With Me is made by people who tell stories for living, and in it the story reigns as King. There aren’t characters present simply to tailor to a particular target audience, there aren’t scenes that feel they’ve been thrown in for time. Everything that happens is for a reason, and that reason is the story. The story is funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking, honest, and also true. On top of that the casting and actors nailed it. Bravo Mr Burbiglia and This American Life team! IMDb / RT / MUBI HOOP DREAMS / 1994 / Director: Steve James What starts as almost a ‘Nature vs. Nurture’ experiment documentary, very quickly becomes a study in how the cultures in which we grow up are not so easy to escape from for those who want out. The culture Hoop Dreams presents is one that is both destructive and life-taking, but yet full of love and full of hope. Basketball acts as such a currency for hope and escape to everyone, even the people who didn’t make it out when they had the chance… Despite its length, Hoop Dreams does not feel like a 3+ hour documentary – and even if it does to you, once sucked in you’d really prefer it to be longer. IMDb / RT / MUBI MOONRISE KINGDOM / 2012 / Director: Wes Anderson After seeing some other truly fantastic films this year, it was a battle in deciding whether to include Wes Anderson’s latest offering over them (check out the ‘honorable mentions’ at the bottom for the competitors). However, despite what first appears a two-dimensional toybox tale, Moonrise Kingdom was a film of such charm, precision, and surprising depth- that like many ‘top films’ lists it rightfully earns it’s spot here. IMDb / RT / MUBI PLAYTIME / 1964 / Director: Jaques Tati With a title that’s nothing but indicative of its content – Playtime is a film that oozes with creativity, ideas, observations, and imagination. As a narrative it’s flawed, but as a performance piece it’s exquisitely crafted. The playground Tati has created around him is truly living and breathing, so much so that “there really isn’t need for dialogue anyway”. It’s insight into the world of tomorrow quickly becoming the world of today delivers a fascinating commentary, and raises questions relevant even today, especially about the role design and human interaction in everyday life. IMDb / RT / MUBI SHAME / 2011 / Director: Steve McQueen Roger Ebert’s review for Shame was very articulate in identifying just how Shame succeed as a film. Despite its graphic and even extreme representation of the struggles in coping with a sex addiction, the wrenching character study feels more than that. It presents the dangers found in the transient, anonymous culture-of-self that exists in contemporary city-life, and the boundaries that the human soul will push as a means just to create order from that chaos. Shame will take you into one man’s order, break you, and then leave you there without solution. It’s challenging film-making at its finest. IMDb / RT / MUBI FOR ALL MANKIND /1989 / Director: Al Reinert A celebration in the beauty of creation, and the feat man will achieve to further explore it. Comprised of NASA footage from all the Apollo missions leading up to and including the moon landing; the opening footage of President Kennedy’s inspirational ‘To the moon’ speech is the only exposition needed before we do just that, go to the moon (with Brian Eno’s score as perfect musical accompaniment). See it on as big a screen as you can, and sit as close to that screen as humanly possible. I flipping love space and this is awesome. IMDb / RT / MUBI ACE IN THE HOLE / 1951 / Director: Billy Wilder‘What’s the story’ is a question some designers are constantly asking themselves when working on a project. It made Ace in the Hole ring all the more relevant when it’s morality tale presents us with the question ‘Just how far will you go for the story?’ Expertly cast and paced- it feels almost ‘Fincher-esque’ at times (<pretentious>or does it make Fincher seem ‘Wilder-esque’?</pretentious>). … and when answering its own question, the cynicism driving it concludes quite simply – it doesn’t matter, because an audience will always invest in a good story. IMDb / RT / MUBI CHARLIE CHAPLIN: A NIGHT IN THE SHOW / 1915 / Director: Charlie ChaplinI hadn’t seen any Charlie Chaplin until a local cinema ran an evening of his shorts, of which ‘A Night In The Show’ was one. The mere 22 minutes is enough to make it evident why Chaplin was King of silent Hollywood- and the fact it utterly stands the test of time is testament to what great work it is. Most interesting to me however, was how much it all feels almost like a piece of stand-up, but in the form of a very physical enactment of a monologue you can picture a comic like Louis C.K. delivering. Chaplin’s character is bitter, a little selfish, and to be honest not a nice man- But all of his observations and encounters at the show perfectly articulate our less proud thoughts and experiences in similar situations. It makes him oddly charming, endearing, and the film hilariously relatable. IMDb / RT / MUBI Even better it’s on YouTube in its entirety RIGHT HERE.BOARDWALK EMPIRE SEASON 3 / 2012 / Created: Terence Winter Why is a TV show in a list of top films? Because it’s HBO, and everything runs at a filmic level, but for an hour a week over three seasons (currently). Boardwalk Empire is a slow build where everything counts. Actions have consequences, and no character feels truly safe (unless you know your 1920s bootlegger history really well). Themes of the family and trust have been forefront of this season. Relationships that were once faithful and long-lasting have dramatically changed from season 1, and investment in characters is completely rewarded to an almost Empire Strikes Back level in regard to how much individuals have changed and developed. The satisfaction that comes from realising what seemed a throwaway line in the first season is now driving a huge act in the third makes Boardwalk Empire a show that is all about the long game- created by people who are wholly invested in its characters and story right until it’s played out. I highly recommend you start playing too. IMDbHONORABLE MENTIONSDelivered in pairs due to some similarities between each film.Looper / ArgoMartha Marcy May Marlene / Sound Of My VoiceJudex / This Land Is OursSearching For Sugar Man / Dave Chappelle’s Block PartyLooper was especially excellent. A film evidently put together by a small group of people extremely passionate about what they were putting together - and not being burnt by too many Hollywood cooks.——————————————————————————————See the full list of Viewed Films 2012 HERE

For the year of 2012 I set myself a challenge to see 10 films per month that I hadn’t seen before. After managing it, I’ve now become ‘that guy’ and compiled a list of 10 that were particularly fantastic. Read about them below:

Read More

liveforothers: BLESS ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 19 | ELISA CUNNINGHAM ‘And you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from their sins’ Great job Elisa!

liveforothers:

BLESS ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 19 | ELISA CUNNINGHAM

‘And you shall call His name Jesus,
for it is He who will save His people
from their sins’

Great job Elisa!

(via seaoflove)

archiebagnall:

Songs For Paris (2012 V0 MP3)

  1. Louis Armstrong - La Vie En Rose Pt. I
  2. Fat Freddy’s Drop - Big BW
  3. Frank Ocean - White
  4. Zoot Sims & Bucky Pizzarelli - Indiana
  5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Skeletons
  6. Nat Baldwin - A Little Lost
  7. Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg Saint Denis
  8. Kanye West & Jay Z - The Joy
  9. Gonzales - Gentle Threat
  10. Feist - Cicadas & Gulls
  11. The Soultronics - Water No Get Enemy
  12. Louis Armstrong - La Vie En Rose Pt. II

Runtime: 46 minutes.
DOWNLOAD HERE.

The arrival of December also means the release of this year’s annual music mix project. Made up of songs I’ve been listening to this year, ‘Songs For Paris’ is soundtrack to some favourite spots in the city of lights after living here for almost a year and a half.

I also made an ambitious website to accompany the mix. Check it out HERE.
Enjoy, and have a great Christmas!

Things have been very quiet here recently, and here is part of the reason…
Lots to come soon!

archiebagnall:

I recently visited New York. Despite hurricane Sandy sweeping through right in the middle of the trip I had a chance to get the camera out and take some photos.

See the whole set here:
http://ihardlyknowher.com/67515410@N03/sets/72157632020902636

Be sure to set the image size to large in the bottom right!

unknown italian designergioco delle 3 oche (game of the 3 geese), c. 194412 ½ x 22 ½” (31.8 x 57.2 cm)the wolfsonian-florida international university, miami beach, the mitchell wolfson, jr. collection

unknown italian designer
gioco delle 3 oche (game of the 3 geese), c. 1944
12 ½ x 22 ½” (31.8 x 57.2 cm)
the wolfsonian-florida international university, miami beach, the mitchell wolfson, jr. collection

A 1:1 scale model of the Aston Martin DBR1/2 that Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori drove to a Le Mans win in 1959 - totally handmade in the style of an AirFix kit…by by Evanta Motor Company - AUCTION

A 1:1 scale model of the Aston Martin DBR1/2 that Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori drove to a Le Mans win in 1959 - totally handmade in the style of an AirFix kit…

by by Evanta Motor Company - AUCTION

Illustrations by Berliac

Illustrations by Berliac