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“Designers sell their work. Designers get up in front of people and explain why they’ve made the decisions they’ve made. And if you can’t do that, you can’t call yourself a designer.” -Mike Monteiro”
“To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.”
Ellen Lupton (via inspirewell)
David Carson, one of the world’s most famous graphic designer is returning to print.
“He changed the public face of graphic design,” according to Newsweek, and now he’s doing it again. TED speaker and experimental graphic design pioneer Carson is now the Art and Design Director for C A R S O N, a magazine not only about design, but fine art, illustration, photography and writing. It will launch sometime in 2011 and will be published bi-monthly with a 6-issue subscription for $20.
Best of luck.
This is absolutely brilliant. Kottke calls the person who made this “gloriously crazy” and I agree.
“This year’s movies have legitimately transformed my idea of what is creatively possible. To commemorate, I’ve remixed 270 of them into one giant…video.”
Virtual choir. Beautiful and so so cool.
Here’s a little bit about how they put it together:
http://ericwhitacre.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/virtual-choir-project-ii-lux-aurumque/
“the most important thing that keeps me creative is my wanting to be good. -Chad Hagen”
From an excellent collection of responses to the question:
“What do you do to inspire your creativity when you find yourself in a rut?”
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.”
John Maeda,
The Laws of Simplicity
This time (Alice) found a little bottle… with the words ‘DRINK ME’ beautifully printed on it in large letters. It was all very well to say ‘Drink me,’ but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. ‘No, I’ll look first,’ she said, ‘and see whether it’s marked “poison” or not’
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll.
Value clarity over brevity. Or a little more prosaically, “If in doubt, spell it out.”
by Warren Berger.
Makes me proud to be a designer if I can do this even half the time.
“Can you adjust the color so it is less black but not gray?”
A fantastic blog: clientsfromhell
From an excellent article, “How I hire programmers” by Aaron Swartz. Applies to much than programming.
Excerpt:
“But if I had to write down what it is that makes someone seem smart, I’d emphasize three things. First, do they know stuff? Ask them what they’ve been thinking about and probe them about it. Do they seem to understand it in detail? Can they explain it clearly? (Clear explanations are a sign of genuine understanding.) Do they know stuff about the subject that you don’t?
Second, are they curious? Do they reciprocate by asking questions about you? Are they genuinely interested or just being polite? Do they ask follow-up questions about what you’re saying? Do their questions make you think?
Third, do they learn? At some point in the conversation, you’ll probably be explaining something to them. Do they actually understand it or do they just nod and smile? There are people who know stuff about some small area but aren’t curious about others. And there are people who are curious but don’t learn, they ask lots of questions but don’t really listen. You want someone who does all three.”
