A Random Design Quote

A ran­dom quote from a famous graphic designer on design, cul­ture and art.

One has not under­stood until one has for­got­ten it.
D.T. Suzuki from the book The Zen of Cre­ativ­ity by John Daido Loori

A Random Design Quote

A ran­dom quote from a famous graphic designer on design, cul­ture and art.

One who has attained mas­tery of an art reveals it in every action.
– Samu­rai Maxim, from the book The Zen of Cre­ativ­ity by John Daido Loori

Chris Van Allsburg Interviews

I am a huge fan of Amer­i­can Illus­tra­tor, Chris Van Alls­burg. His books are amaz­ing in their sto­ries, tech­nique and skill.

In this inter­view, Chris Van Alls­burg talks about his big break­through, his books, and their trans­for­ma­tion into movies. You can see full the full inter­view here.

Here is a nicely made ver­sion of one of Van Allsburg’s great books, “The Wreck of the Zephyr.”

A creative use of video and a lot of spare time

So a funny video uploaded to YouTube goes viral and then some cre­ative folks set the clip to music and it becomes a mashed up auto-tune dance song that itself goes viral. Then other cre­ative peo­ple take that clip and orches­trate it for choir and per­form it as an audio/video quilt which is going viral.

The inter­net is the best-thing-ever and/or the biggest time suck since the Roman baths. Either way, this is seri­ously cre­ative. Each of the indi­vid­ual singer’s videos is com­pelling in and of them­selves, but together it’s magic.

via Neatorama

Andy Warhol draws Debbie Harry on an Amiga

This is pretty inter­est­ing. Andy Warhol dig­i­tally paint­ing a pic­ture of Deb­bie Harry with a Com­modore Amiga at a prod­uct launch press con­fer­ence in 1985!

Add one part Andy Warhol of soup can fame, a dash of Deb­bie Harry of Blondie and toss in the Amiga and you get an amaz­ing stew of early 80’s pop cul­ture in one bit sized morsel.

It is pretty funny watch­ing Andy Warhol and the Com­modore host inter­act; it is worst on-screen chem­istry I’ve seen since Hay­den Chris­tensen and Natalie Port­man in Attack of the Clones. How­ever, I do love the term “leaky flood fil­ter,” (at1:17). I think I’ll start using that when I have a poorly made layer mask or when los­ing to the “The Flood” in Halo. It is inter­est­ing that the host sees the leaky flood fil­ter as a mis­take and Warhol thinks it is pretty and wants to keep it. That shows the vast gulf that some­times exists between the cre­ator of some­thing and the end user. It’s some­thing that authors, design­ers, illus­tra­tors, film mak­ers and devel­op­ers should keep in mind when their cre­ations are released in the world. That is, no mat­ter what your inten­tions are or how good your plan is, when your cre­ation is released it will take on a life of its own.

via John Knack