Friday May 18, 2012
March 4, 2009
To me, design is primarily a verb, not a noun. The interactions and conversations that guide it are very important to the final result.
Source: Coudal’s advice on How to transition from client work to products
Labels: Defining Design
March 4, 2009
To be able to build a brand, you need to be yourself.
Source: “Fine Fast Food” by Steve Ells, TIME
Labels: Brand
March 3, 2009
Michael B. Johnson, Moving Pictures Group, Pixar: “We’d much rather fail with a bunch of sketches that we did (relatively) quickly and cheaply, than once we’ve modeled, rigged, shaded, animated, and lit the film. ‘Fail fast,’ that’s the mantra. With a team of 10–20 people (director, story artists, editorial staff, production designer and artists, and skeleton production management) you can make, remake, and remake again a movie that once it hits 3D will take an order of magnitude more people to execute. The complexity of the task does not ramp up linearly.”
Source: Conversation by Adaptive Path with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar
Labels: Failure
March 2, 2009
Image credit: litherland, Flickr
Source: Paul Rand: Conversations with Students by Michael Kroeger
Labels: Handicraft
March 2, 2009
There’s no such thing as simple.
Simple is hard.
Labels: Simplicity
March 2, 2009
There’s a little design in everything.
It’s up to us to find it.
Labels: Everything
Photograph by Michelle Litvin
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