As previously expressed, one thing that I absolutely love is typography in video, whether it be movie titles, television bumps, etc.  I Love TV Intros is a online collection of just that-tv show intros, organized by decade and alphabetical(!).  I get really nostalgic about my childhood tv favorites, so this was just a real treat to find.

Found via Quipsologies

News in the design world is that Font Bureau, one of the largest type design companies in the country, are taking NBC to court for the unlicensed use of several of their popular fonts.  In a suit for ‘no less that $2 million,’ Font Bureau indicates that NBC used Bureau Grotesque, Interstate and Antenna on several computers throughout the company without paying for all the copies.

Shame on you, NBC!  You know just because you can copy it, doesn’t mean it’s legal.  And it’s awfully funny that a company that started its own online video streaming site in reaction to posting clips of SNL and Conan on YouTube would be so lax in their distribution on another company’s intellectual property.  You know better than to do that, especially when you hire tons of people to score the depths of YouTube for anything that had to do with one of your many TV programs, movies, or news broadcasts.

As a result, NBC has had to redesign much of their fall network promotional materials, which may have not really even be a bad idea.  Maybe all the promos for the Jay Leno Show will be misplaced, saving millions of people from having to continue to see his face.  Anywhere.  We can always hope!

Found via CityFile, where you can also read/see the legal paperwork from the case.

So, like most every other American, European, Canadian, or some one with access to a radio or another human being, I become a fan of the Beatles in middle school.  I was 12 and had just watched “A Hard Day’s Night” at my grandparents with an older cousin.  And at that point, I knew that for the next million and a half years, I had to become obessed with this band.

This is a line that not all people cross–most stay somewhere between “Yeah, they’re great” and “Yeah, I have almost every album and have seen one of their movies.”  This is a reasonable amount of love.

But I become crazied with everything that had to do with the Beatles.  I read every book that our library had (Including “The Beatles” by Hunter Davies, the first offical biography, started when they were still playing music), had 15 t-shirts, could rattle off facts better than my multiplication tables: It was insanity.

Yet, they also become something sacred.  I watched the Anthology when it aired on PBS for the first time and cried when it was over.  I would defend their honor, their music; tell people that they weren’t just being high all the time;  that Magical Mystery Tour held some kind of secret philosophy about life and love and that all the answers of the universe could be found in the grooves of Sgt Peppers on vinyl.

And then came Across the Universe.  I went to see it opening week, and after convincing myself that my soul wasn’t really crushed into nothing by the end, I realized that they had become so legendary in our culture that not many yielded to the artistic respect that they deserve.

BUT ANYWAYS, I said all that to say that they are coming out with a Rock Band comprised entirely of Beatles’ songs, and it LOOKS AWESOME! (You can also see this bigger/better over at the website.)

Double High Five to you, Rock Band! This looks awesome and I may think about getting an XBOX just so I can play this.

Cheers!

This is a great find from over at GrainEdit: a postage stamp promoting ‘international coopertaive alliance” from Belgium.  Three cheers, this is awesome.  I love the repetitive style and the orange used. And I’m pretty sure that typeface in the orange field is a straight rip-off of the ABC logo designed by Paul Rand in 1962, but that’s ok.  I don’t blame them.

Cheers!

As a small child, I always loved the DTV (Disney TV) music video specials they would show on ABC or around the holidays. So many pop songs, so many random mashups!

Anyways, I was bumming around on BestWeekEver today, and they had this DTV Video to the song Rockin’ Robin, and it’s actually very intertaining. It’s a mix of some red robin animation that I’ve never seen with Disney stuff before, and a bunch of old classic clips.

Cheers!

Warm, fun, and great illustration and animation work by Ward Jenkins out of Portland.  Ward has been doing animation and illustration for a long time, working in both Atlanta and Portland.

I just love his style.  It’s very mid-century style illustration but with a warmth and personality that I really dig.  Definitely check out the rest of his work, and check out his blog too.  It’s updated all the time and full of lots of good goodies.

He also has an Etsy shop and a great Flickr set of mid-century ephemera that is just great. Gees…this dude is busy with awesome work!

Cheers!

(found via grainedit…did I mention they have a great RSS feed?  I didn’t? well, they do..)

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Animation and illustrations from the 50s through the late 60s probably have to be my favorite style of all time.  I just dig all of it–the colors, the line work, the angles….Just awesome.

Anyways, Cartoon Modern is a great little blog that follows the development of a book of the same name that shows and tells the history of said animation–everything from TV commericals to Disney shorts.  Though the blog is fairly outdated (by 3 years or so), there is a tumblr side of things with some addtional awesome visuals.

Very sweet!

Over on Hulu, you can watch a bunch of Sesame Street clips, which is sweet. But what is even sweeter is that they have a BUNCH of their animations, which just totally made my days. These where always some of my favorite parts of the show as a kid

QUESTION: Does anyone else get this song in their head? I do, all the time. Which is probably a good thing, if I were a toddler. But I’ve been able to tie my shoes for a long time now…

Cheers!

Ben Gibbard * plaid shirt + John Krasinski / Celtics = best Last.fm photo ever.

You’re welcome.

This is hilarious. Thank you, Doogie Howser. I really needed this.