Screen Pass: How networks present the game

I love and watch a lot of football.

The season is 17 weeks + the playoffs and unless I’m traveling I watch all day Sunday, Monday night, and the odd Thursday or Saturday night game. As a result, I spend a lot of time with the graphics from each of the 5 networks currently broadcasting NFL games (CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, NFL Network).

None of them is perfect, but a couple are better than the rest with the NFL Network far far behind everyone. I give them (NFL Network) a break for 2 reasons:

  1. they broadcast in HD, so at least unlike their first year it doesn’t feel like you’re watching a local high school game
  2. they’re still very new to it, they’ll improve.

During a game, I want to know the following at a glance:

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14 Dec 2009   4 notes   [ football design infographics ]
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (The Art of the Title Sequence) The saying goes “don’t judge a book by its cover” but we can judge a movie by its title sequence, right? “Six Feet Under” might be the first title sequence I noted, followed by “Carnivàle” which provided more discussion for JA and me than you’d have thought possible. Of course there’s a lot of attention paid to opening title sequences, now (“True Blood”, “Dexter”, etc.), but I think animated films (apart from Pixar’s) get short shrift. (I also appreciate the title card-only: “LOST”, “Vampire Diaries”, etc.) Nationalistic propaganda is terribly appropriate, too, when you’re talking Superman and Batman. (Plus! Tim Daly!)

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (The Art of the Title Sequence)

The saying goes “don’t judge a book by its cover” but we can judge a movie by its title sequence, right?

“Six Feet Under” might be the first title sequence I noted, followed by “Carnivàle” which provided more discussion for JA and me than you’d have thought possible. Of course there’s a lot of attention paid to opening title sequences, now (“True Blood”, “Dexter”, etc.), but I think animated films (apart from Pixar’s) get short shrift.

(I also appreciate the title card-only: “LOST”, “Vampire Diaries”, etc.)

Nationalistic propaganda is terribly appropriate, too, when you’re talking Superman and Batman. (Plus! Tim Daly!)

29 Nov 2009   [ movies design ]
Oh my. Design*Sponge interview with Coralie Bickford-Smith → Coralie’s own site → Clothbound Series 1, Clothbound Series 2. Gorgeous.

Oh my. Design*Sponge interview with Coralie Bickford-Smith → Coralie’s own site → Clothbound Series 1, Clothbound Series 2.

Gorgeous.

9 Nov 2009   1 note   [ books do want design via:designsponge ]
qlocktwo clock tells the time with words (via Matty) Do want.

qlocktwo clock tells the time with words (via Matty)

Do want.

20 Aug 2009   [ clocks design red! ]
Chemtrail EP (2nd fave: Chemtrail) (via iso50) Definitely a similar vibe as Scott, but wow. Those colors. Gorgeous.

Chemtrail EP (2nd fave: Chemtrail) (via iso50)

Definitely a similar vibe as Scott, but wow. Those colors. Gorgeous.

17 Jun 2009   [ design via:iso50 ]
(via lkwds) Wowee.

(via lkwds)

Wowee.

11 Jun 2009   1 note   [ photographs braun design ]
I dig it. Cavallum Wine Lamp.

I dig it. Cavallum Wine Lamp.

22 Dec 2008   [ design ]

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