Christmas Eve Mass

During my senior year at CCS I took a class called, 'History of Detroit Churches'. A great and fascinating class about the history and architecture of Detroit's local churches. We went to about 12 in that semester and over the holidays I decided to go to one of them. Sweetest Heart of Mary in Detroit is located on Russell by the Eastern Market. That area back in the day had a large concentration of Polish immigrants and in 1893 a church was born.

The inside is spectacular. Few words can truly describe the interior. The work that went in to it is really remarkable. Below are a few pics and a video of the inside as well. For you movie fans out there in 'Scarecrow', starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino the church scene was filmed there. Enjoy.

Sound Design

Sound Design has always fascinated me. I’m a big fan of Glitch, Minimal and any thing that sounds broken. Audio really adds a new level to motion graphics and even the most boring tutorials. Pushing the soundFX requires a great ear and the patience to detail the noise out. Like many, I know what I like, but don’t know how to get there.



The broadcast spot
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The :60 Director’s Cut can be seen here…
echolab.tv/UACG.html

website…
echolab.tv

Trust

I came across this video of Chris Bangle explaiming what trust is from a design perspective. Very interesting and very true at the same time.

ID Magazine 1954-2010

I just read today on Corr77 that ID magazine is going away due to lack of readers and print advertising. I was totally and shocked but was not surprised at the same time.

It seems in this digital age we would rather just turn to the internet for our reading pleasure. When I was at CCS everyone in the ID studio couldn't wait for the new issue to arrive, I even remember having to re-order more than 12 issues because it would fly out so fast. But apparently those days are gone, at least numbered.

Here is Detroit two well known papers, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press are going to reduce readership by canceling Sunday papers and reducing the sizer of the print itself. More and more readers are going online for news killing the print market.

I will say that I miss some publications let's just hope they don't cancel the Internet some day.....