February 2011
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Feb 1st
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January 2011
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Listening to Marvin Gaye.
Jan 31st
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Weekend…GO!!!
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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My love for San Francisco is strengthened by how much everybody else loves San Francisco.
Jan 28th
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Iron & Wine - Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me →
The best track on the new album “Kiss Each Other Clean”.
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Rhetoric is the New Grid →
Constraints give us focus. In graphic design, we use grids as an instrument for ordering text and images on the page and screen. Similarly, rhetoric, the art of using language to communicate effectively and persuasively, offers constraints to help us focus on designing information that effectively communicates to our users.
Jan 25th
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Jan 22nd
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“Good historicism is…an investigation of the strategies, procedures,...”
– Good History/Bad History by Tibor Kalman, J. Abbot Miller, and Karrie Jacobs. Print, March/April 1991.
Jan 22nd
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“I’d talk about what their company’s positioning was, and how we took...”
– Kalman Tibor on pitching design projects
Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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“The grid never changes. It’s always the interior that changes, and that is what...”
– Paul Rand
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Yacht Rock Dance Party! →
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“They’ve spent a decade being berated for not making the right sorts of paintings...”
– —Generation Why? by Zadie Smith. Yesterday I discussing with a friend how there doesn’t seem to be a contemporary bauhaus, or arts and crafts movement, or an influential school of design. Turns out, that school is facebook.
Jan 18th
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“Supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus!”
– What to say when you don’t know what else to say!
Jan 18th
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“We live in an over-informed but action-weak society”
– Jenny Holzer, Conceptual Artist Sometimes I feel like an over-informed but action-weak individual.
Jan 18th
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Attn: Web Designers
catbird: Just saying.
Jan 15th
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Rhetoric in Graphic Design (master's thesis) - PDF →
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“Winston Churchill could never have stirred the British public as he did were it...”
– Steven Brydon and Michael Scott 
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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“People, for the most part, have no fucking idea what they want until it lands in...”
– A soon-to-be-terminated Myspace employee via UX Magazine, “Myspace’s UX-induced Death”
Jan 12th
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