Time on Jonathan Ive:
To watch him with his workmates in the holy of holies, Apple’s design lab, or on a night out is to observe a very rare esprit de corps. They love their boss, and he loves them. What the competitors don’t seem to understand is you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money.
Bavarian Motor Works, you had my curiosity; now you have my attention.
You can’t say “Gray is the best neutral for (X).” That’s like saying, “Between numerals 1 through 10, I think 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9 are my favorites.”
I understand why many are drawn to this aesthetic, but if they think we’ll be caught dead displaying a current map of San Francisco that includes Daly City within its august borders, they’re out of their goddamn minds.
Steven Heller (co-founder of my program at SVA) gives a brief video overview of Design in Graphic Design History.
Reason for Pursuing Graduate Studies
He wants to tone it down. Pity.
Because seriously, how baller would it be to get in, even after having submitted this version?
I think it’s funny that, in applying for a design program, I’ve been asked to write an essay. If words were my strength, I’d be selling Jane Eyre forgeries as lost works or I’d be crafting a very articulate refutation to every work Shepard Fairey has ever made. Because I think his explanations are a crock of shit.
Instead I prefer design, because someone once told me that Rosa Parks’ husband was the one who got her involved with the NAACP, that his actions helped spur a movement, and that nobody is really sure what made him want to get involved in the first place. Maybe someone at church told him about the NAACP. Maybe he saw a poster and the clever use of photography styles and typography made him think, My wife should do something about this.
It unintentionally strengthens the case for essays. Doesn’t it?
Remind me to use this gradient in something later.
A publicist sent this today.
I don’t know how I feel about it. I mean, really? Papyrus?
I totally get it. Wouldn’t make that choice, but I get it.
- Papyrus means Egypt.
- Egypt means desert.
- Desert means sun.
- Sun means solar.
Personally, I’d blame the color palate.
There is something perfect about the color palate of the Westin St. Francis.
Must use sometime. Old. But not too old. Edwardian?
There was an inquiry about that awesome t-shirt my friend Billfrog posted. I could’ve asked him where he found it, but I don’t have to study, so I thought I would at least point you in the right direction. I found the photo on flickr… looks like it was made by Ape Do Good Printing. I bet if you contacted those folks they could at least tell you what’s what.
Thanks!
Yeah, we can tell by those classy lighting fixtures in the background.
(via ihatethismess)
the 1940s, Look Magazine made a comic strip of Hayek’s classic book ‘The Road to Serfdom’. Hayek went on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 and to star in viral battle raps.
Holy crud, a San Francisco coffee table! (At Epicenter Cafe!)
So beautiful. The Giants orange, the faint cartography, all wonderful.
Perfection.
Those tags look really cool when rendered at 150 megabytes … but then what? Can mograph bring graffiti out of its stagnant little world of infantile calligraphy? Except for those very precious few, IT ALL LOOKS THE SAME.
Color me skeptical. Partly because CMYK will never translate to RGB without fundamentally altering what makes it graffiti. The things one can do with pixels make the limitations of aerosol irrelevant. It blows everything else away, with the results we see here. So what’s the point? Why make an effort to appreciate the motion of graffiti when when it’s fundamentally motionless? We might reach a deeper appreciation of motion graphics by printing out individual frames, but I’m not sure it works the other way around. Are we oogling the art or the software? I think it’s the software.
Everyone’s got a signature. My grandmother could tag that screen “Myrtle” and it would look like some pretty fly shit.
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