I suppose that as a graphic designer and movie buff, it must come as no surprise that I pay particular attention to film posters. Next to trailers, posters represent the overall feel of a film best. A million interviews and sneak peeks usually end up sounding the same anyway. A picture is worth a thousand words, and a thousand words paint a thousand pictures, but when you're trying to sell a film -- in essence a big, long picture -- then it's best to cut the chatter and distill it down to an image. More often than not I find myself swayed by a good poster (my views on trailers have been made clear several times), and here's a few that caught my eye recently, for various reasons.

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I was at IKEA yesterday looking for a knife sharpener and some clothes hangers (nearly typed 'hangars' there, which I'm sure IKEA will be stocking flat-pack versions of someday), and, as usual, spent two hours walking through the store, sitting on every couch, imagining myself inhabiting every show apartment (I quite liked this little two-bedroom number that was 55 sq. metres -- unfortunately I can't afford an apartment of that or any size for the forseeable future).

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Here's an illustration I did for an article on solar power a while
back. Thought I'd put up a wallpaper version. The shading on the
body is a bit crap (rush job) but I like the buildings.

Some more info on the now confirmed Wes Anderson/Owen Wilson India project. It has the kickass name of Darjeeling Limited, and will be co-written by Anderson, Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola.

Dear God, multiple geekgasms.

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I've been tagged!

How could this happen, I just run a blog which three people visit -- in blogosphere terms, I'm the equivalent of a hermit! Perhaps because of this, Dan tagged me. Also, he knows I've only ever read four books in my life, the spoony bard.

Just you wait, Dan, soon this will turn into one of those real blogs, the ones with the multiple chatboards and weather widgets for Botswana and pictures of random furry animals to indicate moods such as 'obfuscated' and 'shiny purple'.

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Been testing out my brush pen. As someone who is too used to pressing
hard into a paper using any writing instrument, it does take some
gettin g used to, and I guess I've only learned around 5% of what it's
capable of. It is a lot of fun, though, and allows you to quickly get
very evocative, flowing lines down.

This character is nobody in particular -- not yet, anyway. The anatomy is a bit crap, but the face is exactly what I wanted.

The Sin City team of Frank Miller and Robert Rodrigues are set to bring Will Eisner's The Spirit to the screen. Miller categorically states that the film 'won't be nostalgic'. Great!

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