Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. My good friend Andrew, who produces tahoeticker.com, wrote a piece proclaiming RIP Rocky Mountain News. After reading his story, I visited RMN's website, and haven't been able to tear myself away for the past two hours. I just feel deeply affected by the loss of a paper I had read maybe once in my life. I know that the real reason for my upset is that this has become a sign of the times, another dose of reality in the bleakness of economic recession.
Came across this stunning video by Jeff Scher today. Check it out (unless you're highly susceptible to seizures from blinking light), this is a must-see. Beautiful watercolor collages come to life in his stop-motion pieces. As a bonus, his homepage is a nice clean and simple typographic layout: