This is a thorough walkthrough of what seems to be considered the “ideal” design process nowadays. Design grammar school. Gotta know the rules before you break em.
Found text + audio/visual interruptions
February 19, 2012
Shareable: Design It Yourself
February 16, 2012
"There may be no better way to achieve lasting happiness — as opposed to mere fleeting pleasure — than pursuing a goal that helps us broaden our horizons."
— Guitar Zero - a neuroscientist debunks the myth of a “music talent” and learns to play. (via curiositycounts)
(via curiositycounts)
February 16, 2012
Everyone got too privy to branding and we’re kind of at a dead end with branding. Branding is in a kind of prog-rock phase and branding badly needs a punking. Branding is a lengthy and shared fart between artisan and connoisseur. Branding.
(Source: sexpigeon)
February 13, 2012
"I still feel that there is too much music in the world. I’m not convinced that we need to make any more music. I read this statistic that said 75% of music on iTunes has never been downloaded once. It’s depressing, but it also makes you think that we should stop making music until we listen to it all, and then we should start again."
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Experimental producer Matthew Herbert on the current state of music in our latest 5-10-15-20 interview. (via pitchfork)
My first thought was: Screw this guy—it’s great that everyone is making music. My second thought was: The fact that so many people feel they must try to sell it—that’s too bad.
February 13, 2012
joeyjoseph: Senior School!
Now opening, senior residence community with an emphasis on education. Why stop learning? Why freeze yourself as one person for the rest of your life? Why not start over again? Always wished you’d studied biology or anthropology? You can! Those other senior living communities are just dorms with…
February 13, 2012
"The underlying assumption of brainstorming is that if people are scared of saying the wrong thing, they’ll end up saying nothing at all. The appeal of this idea is obvious: it’s always nice to be saturated in positive feedback. Typically, participants leave a brainstorming session proud of their contribution. The whiteboard has been filled with free associations. Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn’t work."
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Whoops
Jonah Lehrer rounds up decades worth of evidence debunking the myth of brainstorming. Lehrer’s new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, comes out next month and is a must-read.
(via curiositycounts)
February 12, 2012
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[Video: FOOD (1972) by Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978). Watch the film here.]
972, 43 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists’ cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists’ community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzawa4toFx1qcvwrgo1_500.jpg)
[Video: FOOD (1972) by Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978). Watch the film here.]
972, 43 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video
This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists’ cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists’ community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s.
February 10, 2012
"
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;
It is matter of will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of emotions;
It is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,
Of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
This often exists in an adult of sixty more than a child of twenty.
Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals.
— Sam Ullman (via commondense)
February 8, 2012
(still from Candy at TEDxTU | The Neighborland Handbook)
February 8, 2012
Urban design and public art constantly get jammed together, but usually what happens is some urban planners designate a space for some artists to paint murals or put up sculptures. The artist merely generates the content.
With Neighborland, Candy Chang sort of turns that approach on its head, or at least its side. She brings an artistic sensibility to the realm of urban design, but allows lots of individuals to generate the content. It started pretty artsy and cheeky with “I Wish This Was” stickers, but lo and behold, that led to Neighborland, which pretty clearly has the potential to dramatically transform neighborhoods. Amazingly, Neighborland is also, most definitely, art.
