KM told me a stoty about discovering for himself
the effects of a parallax view - how, seen from the window seat of a train, it set off a kind of moire in the
relief forms of the Dutch countryside.
_'Every day, as a students, I made the journey
between Nijmegen and Arnhem, and from the train I would notice patterns forming and transforming in the
passing landscape. Outside, in the fileds of crops,
in the relief made by hundreds of bean sticks for exam-
ple, my eye would follow the shifting screen effect pro-
duced as the angle and perspective changed and the
train went by.'
_'Seeing the fields in this way was an how a group of
things adds up to something else, fifty or more of the
same things, a system.
And the effect of movement and perspective on these
squares of crops made me aware of the importance of a
frame, and of sets of thigs co-operating = inside a frame.
This happens with things and it also happens with colour,
just as people react differently with different people,
one colouring the other.'
Not collections then, but groups of things,
their arragement, how they react.

Designer as publisher, Robin Kinross
And there is the fact that content is always embodied in its form, and so to make form is also to shape content.
it seems that editing is often neglected in the present designer-as-publisher processes.

Do you think it's still possible to create new images today?Yes, I'm positive. Because there are new events, whether critical, social... It's completely possible when you put together things not associated before. Photography, communication should open doors in your mind.
Could you work alone? I could but why would I! When you work with people you open up their minds and yours is richer. When I work with John Galliano, I see life through his eyes. It's exciting. Same thing with Maison Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen or Gareth Pugh. These are people who have a colorful, different vision of the world. I worked a long time with Yohji Yamamoto and discovered Japanese aesthetic. I have no problem with them working in fashion, even if some consider that trivial.
Nick Knight

Mr. Igarashi’s philosophy about his work is best summed up in these words: “My approach to design and sculpture has always wavered between my wish to do something useful for the society and my desire to create something beautiful with my own hands. In my opinion, there are three essential things in work: passion, challenge, and discovery. Without them, work gets boring; with them work is enjoyable. And artwork which is enjoyable also results in success.”
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“Designed by Apple in California, Made in China”
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Grew up in Hong Kong playing ping pong.
Traveled half way around the globe at 17 speaking half the language.
Studied Economics and Linguistics @ U of T.
One day I realized life is so much more than numbers, I bought a camera and started recording history. Hope to make a difference with images.
-Harry Choi

designing as writing

SERENDIPITY

It is you who decide your future

[visual] writing
a [visual] composition lesson

norm
normal
normality

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-LADY GAGA

10 design principles
01 Good design is innovative
02 Good design makes a product useful
03 Good design is aesthetic
04 Good design helps us to understand a product
05 Good design is unobtrusive
06 Good design is honest
07 Good design is durable
08 Good design is consequent to the last detail
09 Good design is concerned with the environment
10 Good design is as little design as possible
-Dieter rams

“I am not sure what an ideal education in type looks like. I would say that I am a believer in an apprentice-style system, which is how I learned at Font Bureau. I believe in teaching a specific method for drawing type and learning from experience. I think the best thing someone can do to learn to draw type is to draw as many different kinds of typefaces as they can.”
-Cyrus Highsmith

“Why be rebellious all the time?” asks Grootens. “Let’s concentrate on content. In the Netherlands rebellion is often mistaken for intelligence.”
Content, however, can be the powder keg of revolution.
-Joost Grootens

I love books

Practice makes perfection. It's all from my head. You have your own way -if you become an expert you have your own way of doing things.
-Joseph Churchward

How to Work Better
1. Do one thing at a time
2. Know the problem
3. Learn to Listen
4. Learn to ask Questions
5. Distinguish Sense from Nonsense
6. Accept change as Inevitable
7. Admit Mistakes
8. Say it simple
9. Be Calm
10. Smile
-Fischli & Weiss

chutzpah!

I don't like
luxury in typography
the use of gold
or brilliant paper
i prefer the rough
in contour and surface
torn forms

Our favourite teacher at the Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) was Linda van Deursen. The most important thing she imparted to us was a certain mentality, a state of mind. She never romanticized graphic design or tried to create an aura of mystery around it. She has a totally no-nonsense attitude.
-Experimental Jetset