Posts tagged design

More Perfect Typography; Tim Brown at Build. “Build is a small, yet perfectly formed, boutique design conference where interesting, talented web practitioners from all over the world come to share ideas, techniques and inspiration. Some are on stage; some are in the audience — buildconference.com.” Thanks Ben.

ElectricGecko says: “I just added Bad Day Magazin to my list of desirable publications. Bad Day is based in Toronto and offers a fresh take on the vast market of art and culture titles. I like their bold approach towards typography very much.” Thanks ElectricGecko.

ElectricGecko says: “I just added Bad Day Magazin to my list of desirable publications. Bad Day is based in Toronto and offers a fresh take on the vast market of art and culture titles. I like their bold approach towards typography very much.” Thanks ElectricGecko.

Hungover on design, thinking, friendship, Toronto, travel, and general sleep deprivation. Welcome back.

Great work by Project Projects, founded in 2004 by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels and where Rob Giampietro joined as a principal in 2010.

Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable. It makes me nervous when someone believes too deeply or too much. I think that being sceptical and questioning all deeply held beliefs is essential. Of course we must know the difference between scepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one’s openness to the world as passionate belief is.

From Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser, from point 8 – Doubt is better than Certainty.

I’ve never thought of Art School having the “Ayn Rand model”

(via krislane)

Via Designing books: practice and theory by Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross (Hyphen Press)… “…a brief quotation from Immanuel Kant…”

‘Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!’.

From his essay, ‘An answer to the question: what is enlightenment?’