The S from Hell trailer

Sometimes logos scar you for life. "The S from Hell" is a 9-minute long documentary about how a simple logo freaked out a generation of children.

Another Film Still Archive

Previously on Pica + Pixel, we posted about Steven Hill's movie title archive - a down-and-dirty archive of film titles from the 1900s to the present.

Thanks to the keen eye of a co-worker, we now know of another resource for spiffy film title graphics: Christian Annyas' film still collection. This site is super easy to navigate and easier to scroll though a bunch of images at once. Starting with films from the 1920s, it also feaures film stills of the titles and when you roll over the still, it ill also show "The End" when available.

Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight

We love Milton Glaser here at Pica + Pixel so we are super excited to see a new documentary dedicated to the man, his life and his work called Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight. The documentary focuses on his design, his breath-taking illustration and captures "everyday moments of Glaser's personal life and capture his immense warmth, humanity and the boundless depth of his intelligence and creativity."

For those of you in NYC, the documentary is playing at Cinema Village in Manhattan until Thursday.

Silkscreen poster documentary

The trailer for Died Young, Stayed Pretty, a documentary about silkscreen posters artist and the community around them. I saw part of the film on Friday night and it was a bit disjointed, but if you are a poster fan like I am, you'll be excited to see and hear from Art Chantry, Jay Ryan, Brian Chippendale and a bunch more.

Coraline Trailer

I am super excited for this movie!! Coraline is a beautifully detailed stop-motion film directed by Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, (yay!) and based on Neil Gaiman book (double yay!). See the low res version above or head over to Trailer Addict to see the bigger, crisper and more detailed trailer in HD (way worth it – go!). The story is about a little girl who finds a mirror world where everything seems better… or is it?

Women in Animation

[Top image: Lotte Reiniger – The Prince Achmed. Next image: Tissa David – Suntan Ad. Image Below: Nina Paley – Sita Sings the Blues]

Last week, I attended a great small talk as School of Visual Arts. Animators Nina Frenkel and Ru Kuwahata went through the history of woman in the field of animation and showed a bunch of great work. They talked about everyone from Lotte Reiniger to Retta Scott to Nina Paley. Check out Ru's blog post to see all the animators and their work. Super inspiring.

Persepolis on the big screen

One more reason to be excited about Christmas: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis comes out as a movie. I loved her graphic novel and i can't wait to see how the story plays out on the big screen. The illustration and animations looks brilliantly beautiful. Check out the trailer and see for yourself.