How images from the cinema settled in literature Recently, the publishing house Corpus published the translation of the first novel by the Canadian director David Kronenberg “used”. Look At Me recalls five directors who have tried themselves in the literature, and compares the plots of their books and key films that fully reveal the interests of the author. David Kronenberg Canadian David Kronenberg began making films in the 1970s.

Commercial Type, a font designer Christian Schwartz, spoke to Quora how he and his colleagues updated the logo of this site. At first he described the problems of the old logo. Firstly, a large Q with a “weak tail”. At the same time, Q is of great importance for the brand. Secondly, the serifs looked “flat” against the base line of the font. In addition, they have different angles and height. This created a visual noise.

Amazon has announced the output of a new device for reading electronic books Kindle Paperwhite. The company reported this on the official website. Kindle Paperwhite screen resolution is 300PPI - twice as much as that of the previous model. The device operates a new Bokerly font, designed specifically for Kindle, as well as a special location of the text, which will help make the reading process more convenient and pleasant.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (MOMA) added an original rainbow flag of the 1978 LGBT community in his collection of modern design. The flag was created by the artist Gilbert Baker in San Francisco when he made banners for protests. He says that the idea of ​​the flag came to him in 1976, when the US was celebrated in the United States. Baker began to notice the American flag everywhere and thought that the phrase “United States” was not read in it, but everyone knows its meaning.

Kinopoisk has posted the first teaser trailer for the film “Crew” by Nikolai Lebedev (“Legend No. 17”), which is a remake of the 1979 disaster film of the same name. The remake will tell the story of a military pilot (Danila Kozlovsky), who was kicked out of aviation for not following orders. However, he was allowed to remain as a pilot on civilian flights. The hero joins a new crew, where he develops a difficult relationship with the principled commander of the ship (Vladimir Mashkov).

Lenfilm finished the redesign of the Logo-Stocks with the "Copper Horseman", which is shown before the films, the director of the film studio Eduard Pichugin told Izvestia. His appearance has not changed. But now it is a computer model that was built after a 8-hour scanning of the monument. The new screensaver is adaptive. It changes for each film, noted the director of the studio. For example, in one of the options in the letters they will show the sights of St. Petersburg.

At the beginning of the year, the VSCO art director and founder of the Sans Color studio Joakim Jansson launched a tumblog about fonts called Type Journal . All posts in it are built according to one principle: first, large images with various font drawings, after them - a brief explanation of who created it, when, what type it belongs to, where it is used and what are its features. At first, the blog was updated every day, recently - once every few weeks. Now it has more than 20 posts.

The Cameo application, which belongs to Vimeo since March last year, has been completely updated with a landmark for editing a mobile video, TechCrunch writes . Now in Cameo for iOS you can import video longer than six seconds and with a resolution of 1080p. Previously, only the import of 6-second videos and the duration of the final clip in two minutes were supported. There are also eight filters and fonts, the inscriptions of which can be imposed on top of the video.

The developers of the Canva service for a simple creation of design models have laid out 100 successful, in their opinion, combinations of colors that they made based on photos from Flickr. Palette are available in Canva (for this you need to click on one of the first four pictures). Canva is a service in which non -professionals can prepare a model of printed products, presentations or another. It has built -in libraries of photographs, illustrations, nets, icons and other elements.

The social network without advertising ELLO has released an IOS application. It is reported by Venturebeat. In the near future, the apps for Android and Windows Phone will also be released. Now, you do not need an invitation to register and create an account in ELLO. Also, new functions appeared in addition to the possibility of writing text posts and subscribe to updates.

Developer Jouan Marcel Pütz posted a visualization of his correspondence with his friend Nicole for 1,500 messages. Pütz later told Look At Me about the history of this correspondence. To do this, he extracted the correspondence history from November 1, 2012 to September 1, 2014. It contained 3000 messages. Based on the data, he created a Gantt chart to decide which passage from the conversation was best suited for visualization. For example, he wanted the infographic to have a punch line.

The Revelti Group agency posted an “image video” that they created for Russian Post, writes Sostav.ru. It tells about the history of the department. Four episodes show how letters were written and delivered in the 10th century, in 1894, in 1945 and today. Between them, achievements and facts are told.

BitTorrent, the creator of the popular file sharing application, has released BitTorrent Shoot application for sharing photos across various platforms (iOS, Windows, Android). BitTorrent Shoot allows you to share photos directly between devices. The program creates a QR code on the sender's smartphone that can be scanned using the recipient's smartphone. After scanning the code, the download process begins. You can send photos and videos in large volumes and to several devices at once.

Unicode Consortium introduced the Unicode 8.0 standard, which includes 41 new Emoji ideograms. New Emoji added in five categories: “the most requested”, faces and gestures, religion, sports, animals and modifiers for ideograms with different “skin color”. A hot dog appeared, such, burritus, cheese, popcorn, a bottle of champagne with a flying cork, turkey and unicorn. All these emoji are included in the category of the most requested.

Deputies of the State Duma are going to amend the “Law on oblivion” on the Internet, Interfax reports . A source of the agency said that they plan to make a number of changes to the document. Firstly, they will exclude the point that search engines should remove reliable, but outdated information (which is more than three years old).