‘if it won’t fit on a post-it note, it won’t fit in your day‘
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iphones are killing our discipline
a must-read interview with designer james victore:
…my students [at SVA] aren’t allowed to use computers. It really frustrates them because they don’t know how to use their hands. But I say listen, I know how much time it takes to boot up a computer, and open InDesign, and you get a box, and you type a letter in it. And you make it this big. Then you make it this big. Then you make it this big. Then you make it this big. Then you move it over here. Then you make it red. Then you make it this big. And it’s like: You’re not designing! You’re organizing. That’s easy. Worry about that later.
And this is stuff I learned from heroes. It’s the work you do before you ever put pen to paper. That’s the important part…
his book, written together with michael beirut, has also just been released
pictures and words
… from marian bantjes
…It’s very common for designers and people in the visual arts to feel like we’re not contributing enough. Or worse, that all we’re doing is contributing to landfill. Here I am showing you some pretty visuals and talking about aesthetics but I’ve come to believe that truly imaginative visual work is extremely important in society. Just in the way that I’m inspired by books and magazines of all kinds, conversations I have, movies, so I also think, when I put visual work out there, into the mass media, work that is interesting, unusual, intriguing, work that maybe opens up that sense of inquiry in the mind, that I’m seeding the imagination of the populous, and you just never know who is going to take something from that and turn it into something else. Because inspiration is cross-pollinating… I want as many people as possible to see my work. I actually really feel that it’s worthwhile to spend my valuable and limited time on this earth in this way…
nations
had a good chat and coffee with mister ‘robbert jansen’ from ‘laboratorivm’ this morning, his sketchbook made me smile…
an introduction to…
not only graphic design, but also graphic designers and how they react on graphic design forums… mildly amusing