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@Ryan Pescatore Frisk:
I don’t know where I’m going, but it’s definitely not here.

i couldn’t agree less with this tweet posted on saturday afternoon, following on from the seminar taking place in amsterdam amidst the chaos of snow and cancelled flights all over europe… a packed paradiso listened to a series of talks on where graphic design is headed and i found it all very inspiring, no real hard answers but plenty of clues as to what is happening in the world and how we as designers can play a relevant role in those changes…

some highlights for me were the british design critic ‘alice rawsthorn’, who addresssed the crowd via ‘skype’ from london due to a cancelled flight (which somehow gave her talk an extra level of urgency) plus ‘stefan sagmeister’ (whose presentation i’ve heard at least twice already in recent years but never bores me) the ‘wikileaks’ architecture ponderings from ‘metahaven’ and a personal note by ‘sophie krier’ who initiated the whole afternoon… all in all highly entertaining and i’m already looking forward to next years event.

m / 19-12-2010 13:31 - tags: ,  

referencing homer

an amusing compilation of fragments in which hollywood movies have referenced famous scenes from the simpsons, or should that be the other way round?

m / 19-12-2010 13:29 - tags: , ,  

don van vliet

psychedelic shaman, borderline genius…. captian beefheart (who has just sadly passed away) is admittedly not somebody i know a lot about, however this documentary (narrated by the wonderful ‘john peel’) goes a long way to explaining what he was about, worth a watch (tip via ‘peter van deursen’, thanks!)

m / 19-12-2010 13:27 - tags: , ,  

modernist britain

i came across this wonderful identity for a chain of fish shop in britain, dating back to the post-war era, which mike dempsey unearthed on his blog, designed by largely forgotten british modernist jock kinneir

see also this related post on the same designer (and the same decade)

m / 19-12-2010 13:22 - tags: ,  

daily wisdom (& occasional nonsense)

The more people we have on our team, the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
– David Karp

The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.
– Jim Barksdale

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
– Mark Zuckerberg

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
– James Cash Penney

a daily dose of ‘wisdom’ on starting your own business from others who also have: startup quotes (with thanks to ‘martin vesseur’)

m / 19-12-2010 12:47 - tags: ,