June 2012
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WatchI really enjoyed this short video from Gestalten on designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann. Niemann is probably most known for his popular New York Times blog, Abstract City where he tells stories in interesting and powerful visual form. His approach to visual communication is inspiring and leaves me wanting to make my own images.
(Semi-related: Niemann and his wife were recently featured on...
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Graphic Design as a Liberal Art — Part II: The...
This is part two of a three-part series. Part 1 / Part 2 (You are here.) / Part 3
“The liberal arts have always been changing just as much as we have.” —The New Liberal Arts 1
The liberal arts are those subjects that were considered essential for students to study. They provide the student with the tools they need to learn and a framework in which to navigate through the world....
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Graphic Design as a Liberal Art — Part I: The...
This is part one of a three-part series. Part 1(You are here) / Part 2 / Part 3
“The teaching of art is the teaching of all things.” —John Ruskin
The graphic design field is awash with contradictions. It sits in the awkward cross-section between service and craft. It’s at once a service given to others and a craft we hone for ourselves. It can be both invisible and...
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Pixar Story Rules →
Pixar story artist Emma Coats has been tweeting a series of story basics she’s learned from senior Pixar employees on how to craft good stories. Here are some of my favorites:
Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.
Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story...
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“Great art is when you come across an object and you have a fundamental,...”
– —Damien Hirst
(via ubuwaits)
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“We use novels, not old newspapers, to get a sense of what life was like 100...”
– Robin Sloan, writing for The New York Times, on the future of fiction.
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“What I am interested in seeing (and making) is a synthesis of concept and form,...”
– Mitch Goldstein on form
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“On Flipboard, we encourage readers to do just one thing: flip. Just open the...”
– —Marcos Weskamp, Head of Design at Flipboad, from this great interview from Mashable.
Flipboard is my all-time favorite iPad app and easily in my top five iPhone apps. The user experience is pretty much perfect and it’s great to hear some of the thoughts and process behind the product.
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“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– E.B. White, Here is New York
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“You’ve got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots....”
– Bill Murray on improv (or any other creative endeavor, for that matter) from this recent interview in Esquire.
May 2012
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Ian Coyle on inspiration and open source →
Ian Coyle is doing some of my favorite things on the web. 1 I feel like he’s pushing it in a direction where we are finally using the strengths of the interaction design to promote solid editorial content instead of trying to replicate printed content online. He recently wrote that from now on, he will be doing all his personal projects open source, putting all the code in Github for others...
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“I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were...”
– Wes Anderson, from this interview on NPR.
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“But how to establish the exact moment in which a story begins? Everything has...”
– Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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Summer Mix: To Get Away on a Summer's Day
The schizophrenic Spring weather has finally settled into a consistent mid-seventies, making way for summer here in New York. I made a little mix to help usher in the new season. It’s called To Get Away on a Summer’s Day and it’s for my friends who graduated college this year; it’s for road trips and driving with the windows down; it’s for falling in love; for...
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“Maybe he’ll influence a lot of kids to not come out of the same hole...”
– Steven Spielberg on Stanley Kubrick, from this interview in the bonus features of Eyes Wide Shut
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