October 2011
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September 2011
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“Work is easier when its just work; it’s much harder when you actually...”
– —John Maeda, from his recent book Redesigning Leadership
Really enjoyed this book - super quick read and an interesting perspective on the transition from artist/designer to leader.
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WatchThis is an excellent talk from Chris Bangle, former design director at BMW from a recent Creative Mornings London. Speaking like a preacher or prophet of sorts, Bangle talks about a few things I’ve been interested in like frameworks and allowing the design to not end simply when the designer says it’s finished.
He goes on state that design is a liberal art, a tool that can and should...
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Size
The stars are so big,
The earth is so small,
Stay as you are.
After Sputnik had first gone into orbit, one teacher asked her second-graders to write a short poem on the subject. Sometimes children are more profound than they realize.
(from McLuhan’s Understanding Media)
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Happy Saturday! [Devil Town by Bright Eyes]
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“My position is that a designer is—or should be—first a poet.”
– —Alberto Alessi
I’ve been reading more poetry lately and can’t help thinking that a poet is just a designer with words.
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“This question of tone, of how we accidentally alienate potential listeners, is...”
– Ira Glass appreciates Radiolab
I’ve been thinking about radio (and more broadly, podcasting) lately. My working medium relies primarily on sight and the visuals but radio is all about sound and I find that constraint fascinating. Radiolab Ira Glass’s This American Life are two...
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Happy Friday! [Hiroshima - Ben Folds]
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Lester: Tell me something Jimmy, how exactly do you think it all ends? Jimmy: What do you mean? Lester: A parade? A golden watch? A shining, Jimmy McNulty day moment, when you bring in a case so sweet everybody gets together and says “aw shit, he was right all along. we should have listened to the man.” The job will not save you, Jimmy. It won’t make you whole, it won’t fill your ass up. Jimmy: I...
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“The revolution he started—a half hour a day, five days a week—it wasn’t...”
– Can you say…”Hero?”
Completely devoured this great essay on Mister Rogers—completely brought me back to my childhood.
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“What makes great art often unsettling to contemplate is the palpable presence of...”
– Weekend at Kermie’s: The Muppets’ Strange Life After Death
I love this quote (and the entire article) for a variety of reasons. I think of all my favorite artists who have died and I can’t help but wonder what else they had in them that never made it out, what more other...
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Ten Years
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There is a little bookshelf under the window in the dormer of my childhood bedroom at my parent’s house. On the bottom shelf, hidden behind some old issues of National Geographic and I large microscope, is a small photo album. My grandmother gave me that album close to fifteen years ago and it’s filled with images of trips we took together.
My grandparents took me on day trips...
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“Content is at least as important as form, the ideas we express as important as...”
– We don’t need new fonts… by Peter Biľak on Typotheque (via viafrank)
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“The greatest things you make and do are the ones that get your full attention....”
– —Jason Fried, Your Attention Please
See also: The Attention Economy and all that stuff about gifts.
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“[N]o one has time for nuance. I am trying to bring that back a little bit. That...”
– Tom Ford on the loss of mystery and a desire for nuance.
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