Beauty in the Future | Scott Boms
The personal notebook and portfolio of creative director, designer, printmaker and publisher Scott Boms.| Scott Boms
The personal notebook and portfolio of creative director, designer, printmaker and publisher Scott Boms.| Scott Boms
The personal notebook and portfolio of creative director, designer, printmaker and publisher Scott Boms.| Scott Boms
This past weekend, after clearing my mind of other endeavors, I immersed myself back into a project and ideas that have been percolating for many months — one that was like trying to solve a puzzle blindfolded and where the pieces never seemed to fit together. That’s what it’s felt like up to this point at least. Something clicked though and now I have a solid first draft that has already revealed a handful of edits and new ideas. It has a working title that I think deserves a lot of th...| Scott Boms: Notebook Dispatches
There’s few pieces of old technology I’ve found as surprising and charming as the Polaroid Big Shot camera. It’s unusually large and weirdly shaped yet strangely ergonomic given the profile of the camera is basically that of a Star Destroyer. And then there’s the packaging which I was lucky to have got when I picked mine up on eBay. The camera at 1:1 scale. Wild, vibratingly bright colors. All Franklin Gothic type. Something special and certainly unlike Polaroid’s other packaging at...| Scott Boms: Notebook Dispatches
Winding down the last moments of a lovely and productive work-from-home week. It was a nice break and change of routine, but I’m thankful to have Em back home, and that G is all settled in and ready to dive back into her studies. Back onto the rollercoaster I go. --- Reply via e-mail or follow me at @scottboms@typo.social on Mastodon.| Scott Boms: Notebook Dispatches
The Last Observers is a lovely short film about a husband and wife who watched and recorded the weather every third hour, day and night, seven days a week, every day of the year, from their station by the lighthouse in Falsterbo, Sweden. Earning “a lousy salary, and a fantastic life” they remained steadfast through childbirth, illness and snowstorms — not missing a single observation in 36 years. I’ve come to realize I aspire much more to something like this than whatever madness the ...| Scott Boms: Notebook Dispatches
The personal notebook and portfolio of creative director, designer, printmaker and publisher Scott Boms.| Scott Boms
The only thing you can mend is the future. Kaliane Bradley I just finished reading Bradley’s debut, breezy time-travel romp and this line stood out because it reminds me of a particular trait in how I like to operate. I’ve described this to coworkers as being kind to my future self though it applies to those around me equally. It’s simply about making informed, calculated decisions to minimize future pain and allow attention to be better spent later. It’s hard to look out at the world...| Scott Boms: Notebook Dispatches
For the last few years especially I’ve made a point to get outside as much as I reasonably can whether it’s for a ride on the whip or for a walk. Even if it’s just for a short time, it’s proven to be a very reliable way to clear my head and brighten my mood. The weather right around magic hour the last couple days has been perfect and a post-dinner walk through our local park trail was just what the doctor ordered. --- Reply via e-mail or follow me at @scottboms@typo.social on Mastodon.| Scott Boms: Notebook Dispatches
This short animated film called Yin & Yang is a charming little ode to balance, contrast and beauty. Very Riso-like textures throughout but definitely not a Riso animation. Art & Design Any Sufficiently Archaic Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic. This 90-minute “printers point-of-view” process film from printmaker, Dave Bull is illuminating — showing the start to finish process of a series of small, highly illustrative woodblock prints. Making things is good for you. Just look t...| Scott Boms: Notebook Dispatches
Original slides from the cover photoshoot for Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Wish You Were Here by Hipgnosis. Today, a shot like this would more likely be enhanced digitally or generated entirely by AI because there’s no real need to do something like this practically — if only for safety reasons1, let alone cost and insurance. But there’s an intangible magic — a degree of awe that often comes from doing things the hard way, where control must be surrendered and we can surrender to cha...| Scott Boms: Notebook Dispatches
