January 2012
1 post
December 2011
1 post
Handpainted Type →
September 2011
1 post
“Most graphic design therefore is made with a particular method of reproduction...”
– The Story of Graphic Design by Patrick Cramsie
August 2011
2 posts
Unionmade →
WatchLife is All About Forgetting What You’ve Learnt
July 2011
3 posts
Mike Kruzeniski →
“How Print Design is the Future of Interaction”
Saul Bass →
June 2011
4 posts
Anton Perich →
December 2010
1 post
digital comic books →
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
thanks, cassie. →
April 2010
2 posts
“Digital, for us, isn’t a technical term that designates media or medium. It’s...”
– Digital Kitchen, About
turning the page →
March 2010
6 posts
premise
The traces of creation and the embedded story within a designed object.
How does a specific production technique, material, amount of time affect the visible history of a finished product? When are flaws a good thing? What makes a one-off more valuable? Why are the authentic histories of objects co-opted and reapplied to new objects? There is a transparent honesty apparent in things created in an...
“Modernist design, linked as it has become to modern industry, has made a...”
– Tadanori Yokoo
“With the introduction of the microcomputer the designer won almost total control...”
– Richard Hollis
impact
The year I was born (1985) was a time for technological experimentation with the proliferation of the personal computer and Macintosh. The revolutionary designers in this time period of the early 80s and 90s chose a couple dramatically differing paths in creating their new design work in relation to digital creation on the computer.
One set of designers played off of the visual aesthetics...
“The Macintosh has not contributed to any changes in our design approach. For a...”
– Takenobu Igarashi
February 2010
3 posts
typography 1.0 →
interview two
Kilgallen: I’m definitely interested in the past, and in a past that maybe I idealize as a time when things were well-made, and when maybe you couldn’t go to Home Depot to find what you needed but you had to make it on your own. And the thing is often people refer to that as the past, ...
1 tag
sign painting
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/more_on_signwriting.html
http://www.graphicology.com/blog/2010/2/18/289-meet-james-chastain-signpainter.html
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/kilgallen/index.html
January 2010
10 posts
interview
Heller: You are dedicated to the painstaking craft of type and typography. You produced much of your most important work using hot metal types. What did you think when digital typography was introduced and so many typographers used the medium to create anarchic typography? Weingart: That my work was mostly done with hot metal types comes from the fact that I have been around for a long time! We...
alternative paths
The Shakers: They invented hundreds of laborsaving devices from the clothespin to the circular saw, which they shared without patents (some of these machines launched brilliant industrial careers for the men who borrowed them), nor were they frightened of useful inventions.
...
definition
(want of a comprehensive definition of the value of handmade design)
Michael Perry: Hand type may not always be the right answer or the most time-effective solution, but it is definitely the most fun. It’s the answer I go to most often. It shapes my work and the work of so many around me. It is the answer that keeps the artist from taking himself or herself too seriously and infuses some...
websites
http://blog.craftzine.com/
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
http://metrixcreatespace.com/
“To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history, knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.” — Le Corbusier
library list
1/ Lifting Depression by Kelly Lambert
2/ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
3/ Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design by Chen Design Associates
4/ Hand Job: A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry
5/ The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
6/ “Computers, Pencils, and Brushes,” Design Form and Chaos by Paul Rand
...
folklore
“John Henry is an American folk hero, famous for having raced against a steam powered hammer, and won, only to die in victory with his hammer in his hand.”