August 2010
1 post
“Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home?”
– Paul Newman, on fidelity
June 2010
1 post
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King
May 2010
2 posts
“Empty heads are very fond of long titles.” →
a German proverb
“brand has gone from a shorthand for quality to a shorthand for, well, brand.”
– Jesse Thorn, on shopping like his mom.
April 2010
1 post
“Self-help books are bullshit. Read a good book. That’ll help you.”
– Roger Ebert, Film Critic and Twitter Superstar
February 2010
6 posts
“There is properly no history, only biography”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Informed Optimism
Skeptical, not Cynical.
Hopeful, not Naïve.
“If you make something that matters, it will speak for itself. Don’t put that on...”
– Alex Payne (via merlin)
(via woodswoodswoods)
Stupid design won't improve your coffee. →
2 tags
“Most young designers know nothing about those who came before them. It’s a...”
– Carin Goldberg
December 2009
3 posts
“Designers should be arbiters of the truth: They should be the kind of people who...”
– Kevin Mattice, a UX Designer
“Pretend there is no such thing as a bold serif and life will be better.”
– Good advice from Sean Adams
November 2009
14 posts
A song by John Hartford. Buy from iTunes.
2 tags
1 tag
“Good ideas benefit some one. Great ideas benefit every one.”
– Frank Chimero (designethos)
Frank has a wonderful section of hid site devoted to his design ethos. I recommend following it.
1 tag
“My capsule recommendation for a course of education is as follows:”
–
Attend a university if you possibly can. There is no content of knowledge that is not pertinent to the work you will want to do. But before you attend a university work at something for a while. Do anything. Get a job in a potato field; or work as a grease-monkey in an auto repair shop. But if you...
1 tag
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about...”
– Buckminster Fuller
1 tag
“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
– Gertrude Stein
1 tag
“People who see a drawing in the ‘New Yorker’ will think...”
– Saul Steinberg
“The best ideas are those which you hit yourself in the forehead over, not...”
– Me
1 tag
“I think artists tend to be liberal because their view of the world has to...”
– Milton Glaser, Since Then
1 tag
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest...”
– Paul Rand
