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Milton Glaser: Embrace the Failure

May 13, 2011

To promote their graduation exhibition in May, students from Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm asked prominent creative figures to discuss their ‘fear of failure.’ In this video veteran designer Milton Glaser offers his insights into creative failure (which apply as much to writing as much as design, I would think): (via Creative Review)

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“My Favorite Artistic Advice”

May 12, 2011

Part of Lev Yilmaz’s Tales of Mere Existence Series, My Favorite Artistic advice is a short animated film based on a letter by the artist Sol LeWitt, written to the artist Eva Hesse (with slight alterations by Yilmaz): (via/thx Jon Gray)

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James Murphy | M ss ng P eces

April 7, 2011

With LCD Soundsystem playing their last show in New York last week, M ss ng P eces has just posted a really great interview with James Murphy from the band. Obviously this has nothing whatsoever to do with books as such, but Murphy does muse on how technology is affecting how we discover and create [...]

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Little Scraps of Paper

April 4, 2011

Little Scraps of Paper is a lovely series of short documentary films about how creative people use notebooks to record their thoughts and develop their ideas. The series was created last year by director Tomas Leach, assisted by Nicolas Cambier and Daniel Diego Lincoln. In this film, Norwegian product designer Oscar Narud talks about his [...]

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Michael Wolff: Obsessively Interested In Everything

March 25, 2011

As a follow up to Monday’s post Is This A Good Time?, here’s designer Michael Wolff discussing curiousity, appreciation and imagination as part of Intel’s Visual Life series: (via Quipsologies)

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