A Random Desiqn Quote

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.”
-Charles Eames

A Random Design Quote

A ran­dom quote about design, cul­ture and/or art.

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty.

Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance.

Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

- Paul Rand

A Random Quote

Make haste slowly.

-Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus 63 BCE -14 CE) quoted in Suetonius Augustus xxv. 4.

A good thought for graphic designers, artists and masters of the known world.

Fee Phi Foe Fum… The Golden Ratio Explained!

Vi Hart makes great math videos. These videos on phi and the fibonacci sequence are great. Designers (and science geeks) will get a kick out of them. All hail the golden ratio!

A Random Design Quote

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

Criticism is important because it gives us a language (indeed a lens) by which to discuss and view design.
- Steven Heller

A Random Design Quote

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

I appreciate the moral imperative that no task is so insignificant that it needn’t me accomplished in keeping with the highest standard.
-Karl Gerstner

Random Design Quote

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

A logo derives its meaning from the quality of the thing it symbolizes, not the other way around.
- Paul Rand

Good Read: Presentation Zen Design

Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations is a great follow up to Garr Reyonlds’ classic Presentation Zen. The first book deals primarily with the underlying principles for presenting data and information. Presentation Zen Design is also very good, but it focuses more of the nuts and bolts of designing PowerPoint slides.

At its heart, it is really a very quick summary of the standard rules of design, page layout, color theory and typography. It is a bit too basic if you are a professional designer, but a perfect book for professionals that have to create presentations and want them to rock.

Professional graphic designers can still learn a lot from this book, however. Reynolds is a very good writer, and all designers can learn from how effortlessly and eloquently he explains complex ideas and principles to a wide and non-technical audience. Learning from his style of communication will help any designer who finds themselves in a pitch meeting and having to explain why their ideas will work.

Experiments in Digital Painting

I am a member of Lynda.com and it is one of my favorite sites. I recently finished an excellent course, Transforming a Photo into a Painting with Photoshop taught by John Derry. It was an excellent class and I have been inspired to try my hand at his technique. Let me know how these two digital paintings turned out. They are based on some photos I took on a recent trip to Portland, Oregon. Click for larger versions.

Weird Portland, November 2011

Portland Skyline, November 2011

Random Design Quote

A random quotes from famous graphic designers on design, culture and art.

As a craft, typography shares a long common boundary and many common concerns with writing and editing on the one side and with graphic design on the other; yet typography itself belongs to neither.

-Robert Binghurst, The Elements of Typographic Style