September 2011
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via lazyhawk)
July 2011
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“It comes down to this: only people can have ethics. Ethics, as in, doing the...”
– — Seth Godin
Also, is this too long for a tattoo? Because it comes as close to a personal credo as I’ve found so far.
(via communicatrix)
April 2011
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January 2011
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Blog Moved
Arteliance can now be found at aprilmains.ca.
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How artists must dress →
bobulate:
Roger White celebrates a third printing of an etiquette book with some key pointers:
The relationship between an artist’s work and attire should not take the form of a direct visual analogy. A stripe painter may not wear stripes. …. The artist’s sartorial choices are subject to the same hermeneutic operations as are his work. When dressing, an artist should imagine a five-paragraph...
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“Beautiful people do not just happen.”
– simplify your life
“Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be...”
– Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues:
How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, “that looks just like Cézanne.” And you realize...
December 2010
10 posts
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How To Use Mind-Mapping Software To Organize Your... →
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The Most Important Ability You Can Have Today |... →
Adaptability.
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Thinking of doing a design PhD? Trust me, I'm a... →
De-coupling the reason for doing a PhD from its increasing
necessity in academia was useful for me. This meant doing
the PhD for its own sake, not for the qualification. I am
a great starter of projects, but often lose interest once
I have worked it all out in my head and understand the
patterns and connections. But understanding those things
in your own head is different from...
“Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.”
– Cheng Yen (via Dan Benjamin)
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On Dirt →
Moral of the story? You price yourself like dirt, you’ll be treated like it.
via @mlanger
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The Big Web Show #30: Jason Santa Maria on 5by5 →
Form a language to explain the way you work and the decisions that you make.
I struggle with this and am including it here to remind myself to work on it.
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to... →
Between standards and innovation is elevation.
Just finished reading the first edition of this book and now I’m full of lots of ideas for simplifying and directing things.
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Laura's "Rules" - pistachio's posterous →
I think the absolute central challenge in life is to learn
to not be afraid of who you actually are.
be kind and fair to everyone.
don’t worry whether or not anyone likes you.
help people.
ask.
act. (get excited and share it)
love yourself.
love others. (try radical forgiveness)
gratitude for everything.
hope is your only hope. (and fear is your only worry)
be...
Giving Better Design Feedback →
It’s Not Art
First rule of design feedback: what you’re looking at is
not art. It’s not even close. It’s a business tool in the
making and should be looked at objectively like any other
business tool you work with. The right question is not,
“Do I like it?” but “Does this meet our goals?” If it’s
blue, don’t ask yourself whether you like blue. Ask
yourself if blue is going to...
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November 2010
19 posts
Frank Chimero: Content →
viafrank:
You ever order soup at a restaurant and get a bowl that’s mostly broth? The problem is the register at the restaurant is four-hundred bucks under what it was the day before, and everyone is running around screaming “No one wants to buy our soup!” Then they start looking for different ways to…
» GO SEE-NEW YORK: ALBERTO GIACOMETTI “IN... →
While I was studying Visual Communications one of my instructors suggested I try drawing like Giacometti. I studied his work and a whole new way of seeing and expressing what I saw opened up for me. I have drawn like that with some success ever since.
“I believe in truth.
Truth is Difficult · Difficult to attain, and difficult to...”
– Since first reading this I have referred to it over and over again.
ongoing by Tim Bray · Truth
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“Marketers like to work on the demand side—take what’s in demand, make it...”
– Column: To Win, Create What’s Scarce - Harvard Business Review
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Ideas Are Cheap - Typo Apparel →
Ideas are Cheap. Art takes work.
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mitch goldstein // mfa » Blog Archive » Type... →
I love how these combine my two greatest loves: typography and drawing.
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Main : TypArchive →
via @theorosendorf
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Re-nourish | Design Sustainably →
Something to think about.
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How to talk to marketing people →
How to talk to marketing peopleView more presentations from Rui Carmo.
For a geek like myself, this explains everything.
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“Metal and digital are in our blood. We learned to make books the old-fashioned...”
–
The Offices of Kat Ran Press : About
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive....”
– Howard Thurman
(via moapp)
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“Living a life of integrity and value is the only way to truly feel good about...”
– How to Really Begin Adding Value - by Dumb Little Man
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Pentagram's Paula Scher On Drawing With Type | Art... →
A couple of things I love about this short 7 min. video. How she describes her process as taking 1 second and 34 years and how she misses the old days of hand done comps, press down type and using one’s hands instead of the computer. I miss those days too. The days when design was a craft and one learned typography by drawing the letters.
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James Victore: Don't Be A Design Zombie ::... →
And it’s fast, right? We’re obsessed
with efficiency, and sometimes we
forget how much faster drawing is.
My third 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...
Project triangle →
Typedia: Blog: Torch: Practice Makes Purpose →
Faced with terminal velocities of
choice and amateurism, designers today
have to choose typefaces purposefully
and carefully…
The Science of Vision and the Emergence of Art →
via lines and colors
The Competitive Advantage of Truth - Advertising... →
Imagine instead if you took the time
to use your engagement to actually
inform consumers.”
via Tuxedo T-shirt
October 2010
24 posts
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Table of Contents | The Elements of Typographic... →
Be still my heart.
Learning to draw: where to go from here →
The most important thing: keep drawing.
Excellent list of drawing books and resources.
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Learn Theory, Practise Aesthetic - Retinart →
Now go create.
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The Most Important Question in any Creative Brief →
Why should your (potential) audience care about you?
via @AppliedArts
"The Machine", Museum of Modern Art
Saw this book at an antique show in Lethbridge yesterday. It is a gorgeous and wonderfully tactile artifact of an earlier time. The cover is a sort of pressed and enamelized metal—gorgeous.
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“
Today, people are more interested in
what a brand can do for them. Great
...”
– The Real Lesson of the Gap Debacle: Logos Aren’t Key Anymore | Co.Design
Frank Chimero - How to Have an Idea →
“
In an era when the greatest demand for
images seems to be CGI in movies,
...”
– ILLUSTRATION ART: ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 33
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H&FJ Fonts: Finishing Touches →
The details are not details, they make the product. —Charles Eames