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No, not the dreadful singer from The Monkees but he of the undersea locker and also the new villain in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Bill Nighy plays this splendidly-designed character, with the assistance of some CGI to get those tentacles working. I’ve still not seen the first film but the look of […]

So Much Fire to Roast Human Flesh
A benefit album curated
by Josephine Foster
“All profits from sales of this
compilation will be distributed to
specific counter-military recruitment
and pacifist organizations and
programs. We hope to assist them
in their efforts promoting peace
and non-militarism in the United States.
“All of the musicians represented
here are US citizens. Our voices
join with many others across this
land that […]

Before Stanley Kubrick’s first self-financed feature, Fear and Desire, there came two documentary shorts: Flying Padre and Day of the Fight. The latter is probably the best, not least for the way it connects to the noir ambience of the period (boxing dramas such as Body and Soul and The Set-Up) and points towards Kubrick’s […]

In the days before colour photography most magazine covers were created by illustrators (as the New Yorker still is), a situation that’s left behind a rich legacy of wonderful artwork often far more stimulating than any of the magazine contents. This site has a great collection of early Vogue covers that show an amazing amount […]

Glass Stonehenge: Monument for the Year 2001 (1986) by D Bush and A Khomyakov.
“The sheet of heavy glass laying on the row of stones is carrying the next row, etc.”
Russian Utopia is a repository of 480 unbuilt architectural projects from the last 300 years of Russian history. I love seeing designs for unrealised architectural schemes […]

Left and below: End Around (2006).
Neon light, fluorescent light, and space.
GRIFFIN is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by internationally acclaimed artist James Turrell. The exhibition will constitute the American debut of the artist’s Tall Glass series with three new works, along with End Around, a new work from his Ganzfeld series. […]

One of my favourite contemporary designers, Jonathan Barnbrook,
discusses design responsibility over at PingMag.

767 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10153

The design seems to owe something to IM Pei’s
Louvre Pyramid, among other things.

Photography by Luc Olivier.

This year sees the 20th anniversary of the publication of Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. This landmark comic book, one of the few to deserve the designation “graphic novel”, remains a particular favourite of mine, and one that still excites today for its consummate command of the comics medium. The following is a […]