Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Confabulation with Finnegans Wake – amazing vintage typographic abstraction of the Joyce classic by artist Jacob Drachler (1909-1998).
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Good life-advice in this fine addition to Tyler Adam Smith’s ingenious project, 100 Books That Should Be Written: Busy Is a Decision by Debbie Millman, a title borrowed from her very real synthesis of 10 hard-earned life lessons.
Luckily, Millman did write an actual book, and a most excellent one at that, of illustrated wisdom on life.
The whole design looks like it was the result of a pile of indecisive internal meetings where an enormous committee ran rampant, suggesting interventions that would make the logo look active.
The brilliant Paula Scher on why she hates the Verizon logo. Also see Scher on how creativity works.
Do as much research as you can +
Never copy, only get influenced
Never copy, only get influenced
I Used to Be a Design Student – advice on design and life from famous successful designers
You might as well ask “What is the future of mankind?”. Why could anybody ask such a general and unspecific question? I’ll still answer it. The future of type is the past of type: visual language. As long as we speak and write, we’ll have type. Different voices, different messages, different media: different type.
Erik Spiekermann points his uncompromising spear of no-bullshit sagacity at the question “What is the future of typography?”
Find Spiekermann in the wonderful compendium The Designer Says and listen to his fantastic conversation with Debbie Millman.
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
MoMA’s Paola Antonelli, mastermind of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.”
So great: If Stanley Kubrick had directed Game of Thrones and Saul Bass had designed the poster.
Pair with the legacy in film and design Saul Bass did leave.
There’s this myth that designers aspire to be artists. No — designers aspire to be really great designers.
Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, echoes Bruno Munari at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.”
Antonelli’s most recent book, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, based on her MoMA exhibition of the same name, is fantastic.
Early sketches for The Great Gatsby cover by Francis Cugat. Pair with the most intelligent meditation on the recent Gatsby cover controversy.
Since I was an infant, I have feared my father’s den. Based on [its] ancient relics and mass clutter, I have since referred to the location as “Steven Heller’s Cave.”
Nicholas Heller, son of the inimitable design critic Steven Heller, takes us inside his father’s legendary den – a bibliophile’s paradise.
Pair with this fantastic Design Matters interview with Heller.
For Saul Bass’s birthday, the title sequence for the 1956 adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, which one brave Victorian female journalist set out to replicate in real life.
