Sunday February 5, 2012
September 13, 2011
The loss of people writing—writing a composition, a letter or a report—is not just the loss for the record. It’s the loss of the process of working your thoughts out on paper, of having an idea that you would never have had if you weren’t [writing]. And that’s a handicap. People [I research] were writing letters every day. That was calisthenics for the brain.
Source: 10 Questions by TIME
Labels: Writing
September 7, 2011
Inspiration is a by-product of discipline… simply getting up everyday and planning, plotting, sketching, setting up or actually applying paint to a painting.
Labels: Inspiration
August 29, 2011
“Doing collage was not ever something I thought about a few years ago, but now I see it as a natural, logical movement from the kinds of abstract erasure paintings (over Wonder Woman comics) I was doing in college. Now I think about collage as a good way to paint and draw with paper (appropriating color and line), and it’s freeing. Combining collage with prints allows me to release lots of independent visual problems I’m working out in my head. As a writer, I also connect the process of making a collage very closely with writing, particularly poetry. I’ve been writing poetry over the last year or so, and I formulate these small groupings of images in a similar way that I create phrases and words in a poem.”
Source: Artist Julia Vodrey Hendrickson interviewed by The Post Family
Labels: Process
August 21, 2011
Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.
Source: “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right…”
Labels: Sketching
August 16, 2011
“In the business world, and especially in the technology industry, we focus a lot on the functional requirements of raising money, or on the technical requirements of having certain features or technological capabilities. What I’ve found, though, is that being part of an active, ambitious, supportive and diverse community of peers is just as valuable, if not more so, than any of the more prosaic prerequisites for success. That’s even true in this photo—some of the people whom I met in person for the first time that night or that weekend have gone on to become among my closest …
Source: “Communities of Creators”
Labels: Community
August 14, 2011
Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing
there is.
Via: @TheSchoolOfLife
Labels: Curiosity
August 1, 2011
Source: Austin Madison’s Contribution to The Animator Letters Project
Via: Cameron Moll
Labels: Work
July 25, 2011
It is noteworthy when the design of an experience is so compelling that you feel wonder and delight. When designed right it feels totally natural, some might even say it is truly ‘intuitive.’ No training is needed, no set-up, no break in flow, the tool fits seamlessly, improving without disrupting your experience; it’s like a little bit of magic.
Source: “Passive magic, design of delightful experience”
Via: Jeremy Jaymes
Labels: Experience
Photograph by Michelle Litvin
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