Visual Inclination

Toronto + NYC // design, development, film, and animation

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From Psycho to Jurassic Park: exploring iconic movie poster typography

Film and typography have never strayed far from each other, from the necessity of intertitle dialogue in cinema’s earliest days, to the marketing industrial complex that makes up a great part of the contemporary film world. This is especially true during the “golden era” of the film poster, which produced paramount artwork and lettering that’s still recognized today.

What’s your favourite use of typography in movie posters?

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THE INSIDE OF A PIANO

A beautiful little piece about one of my favourite instruments.

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MOMENTS // NEW YORK CITY

This is a collaborative cinematography film by Tim Sessler and Cameron Michael, using the FREEFLY MIMIC. Shot over the course of 3 days on the RED Epic Dragon with a 50mm KOWA Prominar and stabilized with the MōVI M15. Production: Brooklyn Aerials / brooklynaerials.com/ Cinematography and Edit: Cameron Michael / vimeo.com/cameronmichael and Tim Sessler / timsessler.com Music: Michael Marantz / michaelmarantz.com/ Assistant Camera: Drew English / drewenglish.com and Joe Victorine / joevictorine.com/ Behind The Scenes: Ryan Emanuel, Drew English

As Ivan prepares to head off to NYC for a month, we thought now would be a great time to share this absolutely beautiful portrait of one of our favourite cities.

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In 1992, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar to director Satyajit Ray. When sourcing material from Ray’s films for the Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers were dismayed by the poor condition of the existing prints. The following year, after Ray’s death, a project was initiated to restore many of Ray’s films, including those in The Apu Trilogy. In 1993, several of the filmmaker’s original negatives were shipped to Henderson’s Film Laboratories in London. In July, a massive nitrate fire at the lab spread to the film vaults, destroying more than twenty-five original negatives of important British classics—and burning several Ray films, including the original negatives of The Apu Trilogy. Any ashes, fragments, or film cans that could be identified as belonging to Ray’s films were sent to the Academy Film Archive, but the trilogy negatives were deemed unprintable—there were no technologies available at the time that were capable of fully restoring such badly damaged film elements.

A fascinating look into Criterion’s painstaking restoration process of these films, including stunning before/after shots.

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True Survivor

If you haven’t yet seen this video you aren’t living.

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HAKANAï

Beautiful combination of dance and projection mapping. Truly amazing work!

More info at The Creators Project

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Rebranding “The Glenlivet”

We’re big fans of Scotch here at VisInc, and definitely love this new logo mark.

Slàinte Mhòr!

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From a Client, April 6, 2015

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Wow is exactly what I said when I caught sight of this monogram for Wall of Wally. An illustrative tribute to Wally Olins CBE, 1930-2014 by Jamin Galea.

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50 Movie Poster Remakes

My biggest takeaway? The better the horror movie remake’s poster, the worse the remake will be.

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From a client, March 31, 2015.

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ICELAND: COMPLETING THE CIRCLE

A beautiful short from Maru films.

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These retro VHS covers of modern films designed by Julien Knez are just too great!

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PARIS / NEW YORK

Paris & NY, like many large cities, have a lot in common ; transport, infrastructure, national monuments. I wanted to explore not only these comparisons but also the differences, in order to expose the beauty and individuality of each. What you cannot deny is the vibrancy and explosion of character each city has and I thought split-screen with timelapse would be a good way to help convey this. Created for OpenSkies, the french airline specialist on the Paris-New York route. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to collaborate with you and make this video. ba.com/openskiesus

A great little short exploring two wonderful cities.

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Supersymmetry

Original footage filmed with Kodak Super 8, Canon C100 & Canon 7D ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE NASA Archives Prelinger Archives Pond5 Public Domain Videoblocks David King, vimeo.com/dking H. Lee Waters Collection SOUND MIXED BY Tommy Mokas @ Casa Nova Studios MUSIC BY Experience (Starkey Remix), Ludovico Einaudi Experience, Ludovico Einaudi POST PRODUCTION Final Cut Pro X, Adobe After Effects, Protools

A short film by Trent Jaklitsch composed of original, stock, and archival footage. Really great stuff.

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First and Final Frames

This video, compiled by Jacop T. Swinney has been making the rounds the last couple weeks, and it’s a really neat piece.

The Gone Girl shots really got me.

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Madeon’s Adventure Machine

In promotion of his new album and tour, Madeon has put together an incredible little sequencer built entirely in HTML5 and CSS3.

Sadly I couldn’t get the feature that allows you to share your mix to work, otherwise I would have let you hear my sweet, sweet song.