November 2009
5 posts
the descent of birds and machines
Well, This book wasn’t received as well as I’d hoped, but I LOVED making it. Hopefully I can rework it someday to be more of a crowd pleaser. It’s a book of phrases and images from the LIFE science and nature libraries. The phrases were reordered and recombined in the form of poetry. The images recombined with passages from other subjects. It’s called: descent of birds...
Nov 22nd
shopping
this morning I simply could not sit at my computer any longer. I had to get out, so, naturally, I went shopping. I’m super stoked about my purchases, most have quite a bit to do with my thesis! I ordered the phaidon book about one of my designer loves, Max Huber. It can’t get here soon enough: And, since both Rob and Nicole recommended separately that I read Exercises In Style, It...
Nov 22nd
ever evolving abstract
Mid-century typographer Beatrice Warde believed a designer had the job of “erecting a window” which provides an unobstructed view between the reader and an authors words. In her speech-turned-essay “The Crystal Goblet”, she stated that a decoratively stained piece of glass, while beautiful, is “a failure as a window.” While Warde thinks design should be invisible, I wonder instead, how can the the...
Nov 7th
on the subject of inspiration...
Everything has already been done, you say? Why bother, you ask? Because it is all amazingly beautiful. and it’s dying for your attention. well, it’s dying, anyway. If it’s not given new life, it will die. someday, somewhere. alone. or worse, surrounded by all it’s dying friends. No need to stop making.  The world already made is enormous, and glorious, and full of inspiration.  Mine it!...
Nov 7th
surprise!
COLOR I’ve been dreading the moment when I had to put all of my work in to one book, as I always assume everything I make is beige and black. How boring and un-colorful a book of off-white work would be. Today I made some contact sheets to look for patterns, and hopefully make some sense of it all… and, surprise! apparently I actually use color. How have I not known? ah, the small...
Nov 1st