May 2013
1 post
“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this...”
– Hugh Laurie (via lackapathy)
April 2013
6 posts
1 tag
“My dream is to have people working on useless projects. These have the germ of...”
– Charles Eames
1 tag
“Our studio is like a design laboratory and everyone is trying to prove a theory,...”
– Stephen Doyle
1 tag
“I’m trying to find a way of working which reduces the number of layers of...”
– Tibor Kalman
1 tag
“Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.”
– Erik Spiekermann
1 tag
“I’m often asked for advice on how to become a better graphic designer, and...”
– Chip Kidd
2 tags
“I like ugly, raw work.”
– Barbara deWilde
March 2013
6 posts
“Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas...”
– Charles Eames
“If nothing else, a student must get from his training a feeling of security in...”
– Charles Eames
“Innovate as a last resort. More horrors are done in the name of innovation than...”
– Charles Eames
“You can never go wrong when you work with people who are smarter than you.”
– Tibor Kalman
“I tried hard to antagonize people with an unwavering commitment to my work. It...”
– Daniel Eatock on what he was like as a college student
“I never liked the term “graphic” [design]; it suggests the surface,...”
– Daniel Eatock
February 2013
9 posts
“Professional “design” just floats on the surface, is trend driven...”
– Roman + Williams
“Keep your ego out of the solution, keep preconceived ideas to yourself, listen...”
– Roman + Williams
“Get as close to the finishing line as you can…then wing It at the end by...”
– Roman + Williams
“Study the mundane: delis, freeway off-ramps, unprofessionally designed spaces,...”
– Roman + Williams
“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you...”
– Anthony Bourdain
“If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment...”
– Malcolm Gladwell (via raindog)
“All of us laughing together and saying, “Yes, we have to do this.”
– OK Focus on the essential elements of a brainstorm sesh
“You sell your expertise, you have a limited repertoire. You sell your ignorance,...”
– Richard Saul Wurman, discussing Charles Eames in Eames: The Architect and the Painter (via pieratt)
“Go to the fucking yard sale, buy a fucking guitar, start a band with your...”
– Dave Grohl (cf. “Little Room”) (via drinkyourjuice)
January 2013
5 posts
theyoungneversleep:
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to
do everything, my head is bursting with it.”
-Claude Monet
W.G. Sebald’s Writing Advice →
nevver:
Read books that have nothing to do with literature.
Get off the main thoroughfares; you’ll see nothing there. For example, Kant’s Critique is a yawn but his incidental writings are fascinating.
There has to be a libidinous delight in finding things and stuffing them in your pockets.
You must get the servants to work for you. You mustn’t do all the work yourself. That is, you should...
“For Joy Division’s first album, Unknown Pleasures, Saville placed a small...”
– Codex 99 on Peter Saville
“I’m writing for me and, like, five of my friends. And sometimes not even them.”
– Critical advice from Jon Caramanica (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)
“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused.”
– George Saunders (via portwineandporkrinds)
December 2012
2 posts
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...”
– Walt Whitman via Steve Roggenbuck
“Embarrassment and art go together. If you’re not willing to be humiliated, your...”
– Wayne Coyne via anton molla via yesismore via gluzman
November 2012
15 posts
“Hobbies are for people that don’t like what they’re doing.”
– Stefan Sagmeister
“You know, I never in my career have ever thought about what the goal was. The...”
– Jon Stewart
SightUnseen: If you weren’t a designer, what would you be?
Assembly: You know, there really isn’t anything else we could be. Starting a small business, being a young designer in America — these are not easy paths to take. We wouldn’t be doing what we’re doing if there were a Plan B.
“Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie...”
– Dave Eggers
“I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own...”
– Steve Jobs
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
– Voltaire
“It is not technology that determines human destiny, but rather people...”
– Stefano Marzano
“Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten...”
– Dr. Richard W. Hamming, You and Your Research
“What most people think are the best working conditions, are not. Very clearly...”
– Dr. Richard W. Hamming, You and Your Research
“Start shit. Finish shit.”
– Witt Langstaff paraphrasing Josh Nissenboim’s description of Fuzzco’s process
“Start now by chasing opportunities. Be relentless.
I suspect that most of us...”
– Field Study: Don’t Be Wise. Be Relentless. (via fairtradegothic)
“When I wrote Kitchen Confidential my business model was, “I Don’t...”
– Anthony Bourdain
“I consciously distanced myself from the graphics world, once I started on the...”
– Tibor Kalman
“…sometimes if you make things clear, it’s not as penetrating as if...”
– Tibor Kalman
“I’m awed by the possibilities of biology and nature; by the potential of...”
– Tibor Kalman
October 2012
2 posts
“Hickey says he came into art because of sex, drugs and artists like Robert...”
– Doyen of American critics turns his back on the ‘nasty, stupid’ world of modern art (via photographsonthebrain)
“fashion was very boring, and i was very angry.”
– Rei Kawakubo
September 2012
6 posts
“Robert Stickgold, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, proposes...”
– Rethinking Sleep
“I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce...”
– Bruce Lee & John Little, The Art of Expressing the Human Body
“The future will be easier. Then difficult. Then easier. Then difficult...”
– Ben Chestnut
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good...”
– Shunryu Suzuki-roshi 