GASKETS | January 2008

Jeff is both the principal of Studio Glendenning and art director of The New York Times magazines, Play and Key. He also teaches editorial design at the School of Visual Arts. From 2002 to 2007 Jeff worked at The New York Times Magazine. He had designed and art directed numerous covers, special issues, feature articles and style layouts. Jeff's work has been recognized by the Art Directors Club and Young Guns 5, the AIGA, the Society of Publication Designers and Print magazine. 

Richmond's PBS Station, WCVE, has a TV show called The Music Seen that features live music. They filmed a show of ours at the Canal Club early last year, and it aired last October. I finally received a DVD copy of it a few weeks ago, and picked out what I thought was the best performance of the night to post online. "Trap Me In Doors" is a song about a relationship falling apart. It likens the feeling to being caught under the rubble of an old, leaky building which is quickly crumbling down. Fun stuff! It also features a drums-and-chanting breakdown.

Video after the jump.

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Rumsey Taylor is a graphic designer and film critic living in Boston, MA. He is the founder and co-editor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

The idea is it's the chord progression from the main riff in AC/DC's "What Do You Do For Money (Honey)", which is one of the best tracks off "Back in Black" -- at least, in my opinion, it's the best riff on an album full of legendary riffs. The chords -- E G D D A A -- are enumerated in capitalized Fette Fraktur.

There is a new video for the Ballpoint Pens song, "Never Let You Go," made by our friend Lana Schwartz, from the album Calcutta.

You can watch it after the jump.

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Noah Scalin is the founder of Another Limited Rebellion, a socially conscious graphic design firm in Richmond, Virginia. He is also the profoundly talented designer and illustrator behind the popular web project Skull A Day, where he makes a new image of a skull every day out of a large variety of media.