On February 23, 1963, Diary of a Madman debuted in San Francisco, California.

Vincent Price and Nancy Kovak -

Diary of a Madman (1963)//dir Reginald Leborg

Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson. (Basil Rathbone was also in this).

The Black Sleep (Reginald LeBorg, 1956)

The Flight that Disappeared (1961)

Film review #525

Director: Reginald LeBorg

SYNOPSIS: A commercial flight to Washington D.C. starts to gain altitude uncontrollably, eventually losing contact with the ground. Among the passengers are three top scientists, who have been summoned to the Pentagon for a meeting, and eventually the only ones who are left conscious as the aircraft continues to ascend...

THOUGHTS/ANALYSIS: The Flight that Disappeared is a 1961 film. The plot concerns a commercial flight to Washington D.C. that continues to gain altitude as the pilots lose control and radio contact with the surface ceases. The build-up of the mystery is fairly interesting, and it certainly makes you wonder where it is all going: there’s no evidence of any sci-fi or extraordinary influences, so it does keep you guessing as to what is actually happening. The cast is introduced with enough detail to set the scene well, although what turn out to be the three main characters, the scientists, Dr. Carl Morris, Tom Endicott, and Marcia Paxton, aren’t very apparent until a good portion of the film, which again helps with the mystery, but also leaves the film a bit directionless. The three main characters are unknown to each other when they board, but learn that they are all there for the same reason: to attend a secret meeting at the Pentagon for the development of a new “beta bomb,” a weapon more powerful than the atom bomb. There’s a passenger on the plane who tries to talk to them individually, saying that they must use their weapon on enemy countries with a pre-emptive strike, but the scientists are insistent that it is a weapon to only be used in self-defense or retaliation. The plot, as you can probably tell, is rooted firmly in cold war era politics, although it doesn’t contribute to the mystery too much. While the film does a lot to set up the scene and the people aboard the flight, it is let down by the fact that there’s barely any personality between them, and nothing really happens in the first part of the film.

It turns out the three scientists have been summoned to a trial of sorts by the people of the future who have yet to be born, and probably will never be, if their weapon is allowed to be built and used. The film quickly jumps here from nothing happening, to a bit too much happening: we’re not given any set up for this whole trial and having to face people from the future, and it is all a bit sudden. I feel like the message gets increasingly muddled as well in this part, as the future not born people (whatever we are calling them...) accuse the scientists of being guilty because they conceived the idea of these weapons, and despite opposing their use in anything other than self defense. Is the film’s message essentially seems to be that having a bad idea makes you guilty, whereas the person or politician that uses it is simply a bureaucrat following orders and ticking boxes. There’s something about the whole message here that seems a bit off. I appreciate that the film does look at the moral quandaries it raises with a good amount of depth, but the overall conclusion just seems a bit weird; holding oneself morally accountable to people that have not or may never be born just seems a bit misguided to me.

Despite the film being an independent production, it is made quite well: the airplane where most of the film is set is a set, but it is pretty convincing and accurate. Overall, The Flight that Disappeared has an interesting mystery, but is bogged down by dull characters, and slow pacing at the beginning. The resolution and messaging is also muddled, but it does at least explore it’s subject in some depth. It probably would have been at home as an episode of The Twilight Zone, and certainly fits that tradition of 60′s science-fiction.

Visual Grammar (Design Briefs)

Visual Grammar (Design Briefs)

Visual Grammar (Design Briefs) Christian Leborg 5.0 Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has turned many of us into either amateur or professional image producers. But without a basic understanding of visual language, a productive dialogue between producers and consumers of visual…

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Links 

https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/50-of-the-best-blogs-for-graphic-design-inspiration/

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https://senoda.com/blog/guide-to-print-binding

Book 

Visual Grammar: A Design Handbook (Visual Design Book for Designers, Book on Visual Communication)

Author: Christian Leborg

Publisher: New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

Grids Systems 

Author: Kimberly Elam

Publisher: New York: Princeton Architectural Press, c2004

Control de lectura sobre punto, linea y plano de Lupton y Leborg

Unidad 1

This 1956 throwback to the classic Universal horror of the '40s strikes at your hosts' hearts and brains! It's THE BLACK SLEEP from director Reginald LeBorg starring horror icons Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 27:29; Discussion 43:18; Ranking 59:22

The Flight That Disappeared (1961)

1) simetría 

2) asimetria

3) atracción 

4) equilibrio

On November 29, 1957, The Black Sleep debuted in West Germany.

Here's some new Tor Johnson art!

Again, throwing shade like a fucking boss.

Vincent Price and Chris Warfield -

Diary of a Madman (1963) dir. Reginald Leborg

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Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has turned many of us into either amateur or professional image producers. But without a basic understanding of visual language, a productive dialogue between producers and consumers of visual communication is impossible. Visual Grammar can help you speak and write about visual objects and their creative potential, and better understand the graphics that bombard you 24/7. It is both a primer on visual language and a visual dictionary of the fundamental aspects of graphic design.Dealing with every imaginable visual concept from abstractions such as dimension, format, and volume; to concrete objects such as form, size, color, and saturation; to activities such as repetition, mirroring, movement, and displacement; to relations such as symmetry, balance, diffusion, direction,and variation this book is an indispensable reference for beginners and seasoned visual thinkers alike. Whether you simply want to familiarize yourself with visual concepts or whether you're an experienced designer looking for new ways to convey your ideas to a client, Visual Grammar is the clear and concise manual that you've been looking for.

Illustrator TPA 2.2 Activities & Relations Christian Leborg - Visual Grammar

Format. Everything we see is experienced in relation to it’s external limits. If we could not relate visual signals to a format — in other words, to a surface, a space, or a limitation in time — our brain would not be able to interpret any of these impressions.

Christian Leborg, Visual Grammar

WIAB?: WEEK 12

For our last week, we were pretty eager to start screen printing, so we put together. I put together a PDF of a few scans that were visually appealing from the book that David Cutter suggested; “The Art of Looking Sideways” by Alan Fletcher and another that Toni Roberts suggested; “Visual Grammar (Design Briefs)” by Christian Leborg.

We then printed them off, although we accidentally printed double sided and black and white. However we used these print outs to decide what scans we liked and what scans we didn’t. We narrowed it down to 9 scans that we thought would work successfully with the screen printing process.

Our plans for screen printing are to print out my design from a couple weeks ago on to these scans in yellow paint.

However, we decided to add the logo and change the font to Roboto. Sarah also had a few other logos she put together:

We all decided that we really liked this one:

It is a very clever logo and depicts our Wifi Library perfectly. It is more successful than the other logo and more original as well.

Here is the font Roboto that we changed the vinyl design to:

We decided to go with Roboto Regular as the font was simple and easy to read which was perfect for a poster.

Andy helped us create a new design that will be printed on the scans.

We also decided that the only other text we wanted to be screen printed (besides “Wifi Library” and the logo) was a website that gave directions to the viewer on how to use the Wifi Library. Our plan is to create illustrations that gice 3 simple steps when someone goes on the website:

1. Be in building 9, level 3 of RMIT 2.  Connect to the Wifi Library wifi network 3. Refresh, read and relax.

We went on godaddy.com to find a url that worked well with our idea. We looked through wifilibrary.com or wifilibrary.info but we decided on www.wifibook.club as it has a sense of community and worked very well with our idea. The url also sounds intriguing and will hoepfully persuade people to look it up.

Unfortunately this change pushed our screen printing back a bit, and therefore Sarah and I weren’t able to print the design on to vinyl. Thankfully, Astro and Andy were able to do this for us! And it turned out extremely well as seen below.

This week was very successful as well. Even though we didn’t get around to screen printing as we had hoped, the changes we made will allow our posters to be more unique and work even better being printed on to the scanned books.