Quest

Quest is a visual spectacle written for the screen by Ray Bradbury and directed by Elaine & Saul Bass (yes, that Saul Bass - famous for creating the credit titles for such feature films as Man with the Golden Arm and Walk on the Wild Side) and released in 1983. It's a story of a race of people trapped on a strange planet where lack of sunlight and vegetation has reduced the life span to eight short days. From the children born to this doomed race, one child is selected to dispel the darkness. Following in the footsteps of others who have tried before, he must find and open a vast gate, letting in the "Light" which will bring peace and long life to his people.


Quest 01


Quest 02

A few image captures from this hard to find 1983 short movie:

Train Depot (hexagon exoskeleton)

Bas Princen - Train Depot (hexagon exoskeleton)
Represented by Van Kranendonk Gallery
Via twenty2wo blog

Also ffffound:

Spectrum

Optical paintings by Gabriele Evertz, eye-candy of pure color vibration.

Megalopolis

Art by Ryan Bliss at DigitalBlasphemy

Jaunā Gaita

There's been a few articles about the design of this Latvian magazine, Jaunā Gaita (The New Course) - here's the pick of the bunch, for me (although there's so many to choose from...):






The magazine is still in print and you can view over 50 years of covers here

Also on the inter-web:

grain edit • 53 Years of Latvian magazine - Jaunā Gaita
Jaunā Gaita on ISO50 - The Blog of Scott Hansen
Mikus Vanag’s Jaunā Gaita archive on Flickr

Straightedge

Sam Messenger’s obsessive yet lyrical drawings are created with precise draftsmanship and a deft sense of control and paradox. Drawing by free hand, he typically leaves a degree of control to a generative or rule-based system. A common starting point in his work is often the element of inaccuracy and chance through repetition.





Also ffffound:

The Metropolis of Tomorrow

Buildings like crystals
Walls of translucent glass.
Sheer glass blocks sheathing a steel grill.
No Gothic branch: no Acanthus leaf: no recollection of the plant world.
A mineral kingdom.
Gleaming stalagmites.
Forms as cold as ice.
Mathematics.
Night in the Science Zone.





Drawings by Hugh Ferriss from the Avery Collection
Hugh Ferriss and the Metropolis of Tomorrow { feuilleton }