{"id":254,"date":"2008-11-25T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:03:50","slug":"jason-polan_criterion-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/jason-polan_criterion-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Polan’s Criterion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jason Polan<\/a> does Criterion Collection<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

David Hudson’s midnight post on GreenCine Daily, a DVD review blog from the online DVD rent-by-mail service, tipped me off to a new web site for the Criterion Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There on the home page, you’ll find a video introduction utilizing the handiwork of New York City artist Jason Polan<\/a>. Noted most for his illustrations, he has two short films — How to Draw a Giraffe<\/a> (watch below) and How to Draw an Apatosaurus<\/a> — and a lot of other artwork like the self-published The Every Piece Of Art in The Museum Of Modern Art Book<\/a>. (The book was originally a pitch to work at the museum — sporting an ITOYA 0.6 pen instead — as you can hear in the 30-minute podcast interview on Art a Go Go<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Wholphin<\/span>, a quarterly DVD magazine of unseen films, picked up a portion of Polan’s 2007 short, How to Draw a Giraffe<\/span>, which you can watch online. He collaborated with Meredith Zielke. In the liner notes, he simply says “I like drawing giraffes and I wanted to share this experience with other people.”<\/p>\n

With the thickness of the pen, you’re working with the constraint to create simple, recognizable iconography. 37signals, who prefers Sharpies<\/a> for storyboarding web sites, also posted today with “Jason Polan explains with a sharpie.”<\/a> They picked up on one of three videos for the State Bar of Texas<\/a>. The Fire Ant Gazette<\/span> of Midland, Texas has a longer interview about the videos.<\/p>\n

Polan also has a daily illustration blog, Every Person in New York<\/a>. In May, he told the New York Post<\/a> about this challenge to himself. “I might never finish, but that’s OK. … I’m coming from the Midwest. It’s different living here. I’m trying to make [New York] more palatable, more welcoming.” For New Yorkers, Jason Kottke<\/a> posted a note that “if you’d like to be drawn, drop him a line on where you’ll be, and he’ll show up and sketch you.” He’s got a sweet calling card<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It gets even more interactive. Amid his countless drawings<\/a> and murals<\/a>, he’s got One Hour of Art<\/a> for sale. “I will make what I can in one hour and then I will send it to you.” If you haven’t seen his work in the New Yorker, you can catch his other blog — now archived — called The Drawing Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This on-the-fly animation has worked well for CommonCraft<\/a> “Plain English” videos, from Social Media in Plain English<\/a> to Zombies in Plain English<\/a>. In 2007, there were a dozen UPS Whiteboard ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Polan does Criterion Collection David Hudson’s midnight post on GreenCine Daily, a DVD review blog from the online DVD rent-by-mail service, tipped me off to a new web site for the Criterion Collection. There on the home page, you’ll find a video introduction utilizing the handiwork of New York City artist Jason Polan. Noted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}