Why Kyle Cooper is the Master
Forget the title sequence to Se7en, this demo reel proves why he is the very best.
posted by debbie millman at 4/11/2007 01:38:00 PM
The Complete Broadcasts, please click on a name to listen:
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- Bad Boys of Design 1: Armin Vit, Mark Kingsley, Michael Ian Kaye, Petter Ringbom, James Victore
- Bad Boys of Design 2: Rodrigo Corral, Bennett Peji, Tan Le, Felix Sockwell, Mark English, John Zapolski
- Bad Boys of Design 3: Josh Chen, Manuel Toscano, Layne Braunstein, Alan Dye
- Bad Boys of Design 4: Marc Alt, Mike Essl, Ray Fenwick, Michael Jager, Alberto Rigau
- Barbara Kruger
- Bill Grant
- Brian Collins
- Carin Goldberg
- Cheryl Swanson
- Chip Kidd, part 1
- Chip Kidd, part 2
- Christoph Niemann
- David Barringer
- Design Blogs: Speak Up, Design Observer, Be A Design Group + Personism
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- Eames Demetrios
- Ed Fella
- Editorial Women: Joyce Kaye, Michela Abrahms, Laetitia Wolff + Barbara de Wilde
- Ellen Lupton
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- Eric Kandel
- Gael Towey
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- Grant McCracken, part 1
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- Grant McCracken, part 3
- Hillman Curtis
- Jakob Trollbäck
- Janet Froelich
- Jan Wilker + Hjalti Karlsson
- Jeffrey Keyton
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- Jessica Helfand + William Drenttel
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- Josh Liberson + Ethan Trask
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- Rick Valicenti
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- Seth Godin
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- Stefan Bucher
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- Steve Sikora, Charlie Lazor + Tom Wright
- Steven Heller, part 1
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- Todd Pruzan + Sam Potts
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2 Comments:
just met him last night. what a sweetheart!
I had the pleasure to attend and meet Cooper at his lecture at Chico State, which was one of the best lectures I've attended, which is saying a lot … I'm a lecture whore.
Though I got a behind the scenes explanation of the through process that went behind most of his better known works, what I remember most was his discussion of Paul Rand and what he learned from him while studying under him at Yale.
I remember thinking, how does Rand's work relate or influence anything that Cooper's done? I don't see Rand in Seven, I don't see Rand in Gattaca, or Spider Man or the commercial he did for some golf club manufacturer … But Cooper explained that what he picked up most from Rand was this idea of recontextualizing elements. In his example, he put together a magnificent piece for the Oscars or some such movie award event where he took Rand's idea of recontextualizing and ran with it. In the piece, circles became marquee lights, which transitioned into spot lights, which transitioned into a camera lense, and on and on with oooh's and awe's until the end.
Aside from throwing this valuable idea of recontextualizing into my toolbox, it reinforced the idea that you learn and be inspired from things that, at first glance, have absolutely nothing to do with anything you're looking for. Paul Rand and Kyle Cooper seem to be miles apart aesthetically, Cooper said that Rand disliked the Seven titles possibly throwing it into the Cult of the Ugly, but they're similar in approach.
I've done a terrible job at explaining this, so I hope you smart individuals out there can read between the lines and pluck the heart of the idea out.
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