Gorgeous Films Recast Famous Fiction In Gauzy Vignettes, With A $1,000 Prize

Gorgeous Films Recast Famous Fiction In Gauzy Vignettes, With A $1,000 Prize

The traditionalist may sneer at any effort to "sex up" literature with techno-interactive gewgaws, but Coloring Book Studio makes a more elegant attempt than most. Their new site, called "New Storytelling," displays a strange, impressionistic short film that's supposedly based on a famous short story. The film is bewitching enough on its own -- full of Escher-like morphing designs, dreamlike cuts of clocks and guns, and sinister digital corridors that look like they were filmed with a Super-8 camera.

How Graphic Design Could Help Resurrect A Declining Resort Town [Slideshow]

How Graphic Design Could Help Resurrect A Declining Resort Town [Slideshow]

Rhyl, Wales, is a town in the U.K. like many others. Once a thriving seaside destination -- a sort of Coney Island in a kilt -- it has deteriorated rapidly since the 1960s, as the roller coasters and penny slots lost out to affordable vacations abroad and paltry local investment. Now, Proud Creative, a design studio in London, has devised an intriguing visual identity to freshen Rhyl's image: It wants to make the place new by evoking the past.

A Kickstarter Campaign To Rescue Rare Wooden Type From Oblivion

A Kickstarter Campaign To Rescue Rare Wooden Type From Oblivion

It's easy to forget how precious typefaces were before Microsoft Word commoditized them by the zillions into tiny drop-down menus. As Matt Griffin and Matt Braun of Bearded Studio explain, "letterforms were once drawn by hand, cut into wood, and printed onto paper on grand machines: a process known as letterpress printing." Wood-block display type offered especially wide latitude for creative expression, but now these "fanciful tuscans, outlines and inlines, and multi-color chromatic faces" lay mostly forgotten, rotting in basements or attics.