Here’s a new sad pasttime of mine, The Gallery of Dead Projects. It will contain posters for all the films I never did, either because I couldn’t find a way to fund and/or shoot them, or because they were only temporary musings and I never even bothered to commit anything to paper. This first one definitely refers to the latter type of project — at some point, I guess I wanted to make a film like Dune, but good and set in this solar system. Don’t we all?

But then again, perhaps this movie does indeed exist, as a blockbuster in the same parallel universe where a James O. Incandenza does his arthouse movies (hence the ‘Interlace’ Infinite Jest reference). I’d like that.

These guys sell home electronics and furniture designed by Dieter Rams. I would like to own pretty much every single item on offer, but which one would be on top of my wishlist? This Braun radio DIY kit.

Yep. A print would be a fitting decoration for my office. (via Supernovae and Syntax)

The NASA Graphic Standards Manual. A style guide for the future that never was…

Dean Walton’s sci-fi film posters.

Soviets in space! Here’s an interesting set of USSR space propaganda posters. Politics aside, I always thought the Russian space program rocked. Just look at how the Soyuz spaceship is now the only reliable vehicle for taking cosmonauts to orbit, now that the Space Shuttle has been decomissioned. Or consider that the Soviets managed to land a probe in Hell (meaning, of course, planet Venus) and send back some pictures. (via Trivium)

Recommended Tumblr: Scientific Illustration.

Via Kottke, a graphic design exploration of the world of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. It’s hard to describe how amazing this is, unless you’ve read it (I’m still 200 pages from the end). Be warned, this is the kind of book which is like an endless vacation in which every meal is a heavy banquet: great but incredibly demanding of endurance.

Also worth remembering in its utter postmodern awesomeness: illustrations of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.

Interesting advertising idea: Canal+ film production flowcharts.