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Published February 23, 2011

What is Graphic Design?

To explain what graphic design is, the UK’s Design Council talked to well known British graphic designers, including Neville Brody, about their work for a series of short videos:

The other films in the series can be found here.

(via FormFiftyFive)

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Published February 18, 2011

Margaret Atwood : The Publishing Pie

Author Margaret Atwood used to come by the bookstore where I worked in Toronto. It was always slightly surreal selling books to her, but certainly no more so than watching her on YouTube (YouTube!) deliver a great keynote speech at O’Reilly’s recent TOC Conference:

Atwood expands on her talk in this interview with Gretchen Giles:

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Published February 14, 2011

James Gallager | Cutting Edges

Here’s an interview with the New York-based artist James Gallagher, curator of an exhibition of contemporary collage called Cutters (currently on display at the West Cork Arts Centre in Ireland, February 7th-March 12th) and co-editor of the book  Cutting Edges published by Gestalten:

The book include collages by John Gall, Art Director at Vintage and Anchor Books, who actually mentioned the work of James Gallagher in our recent Q & A.

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Published February 4, 2011

Something for the Weekend

A two-part interview with Chris Ware, author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth,  in The Comics Journal:

I just wanted to make a comic book that had a bit of density to it, and build on the cartoonists whose work I really deeply admire. I could list hundreds of cartoonists whose work I’ve stolen from, and I try to acknowledge them all, so I just wanted to make a book that didn’t lie, as much as I could.

Part One | Part Two.

And, designer Eric Heiman on Chris Ware for Eye Magazine:

Ware’s aims are literary, not pragmatic. But his work is still a subtle reminder that no amount of order we – as designers or otherwise – impose on our lives can ever eliminate the unexpected twists and turns they take. Quantitative data, no matter how clearly and beautifully presented, is not always the know-all, end-all answer, even in this age of Google analytics.

The Literarian — The new online journal for The Center for Fiction.

Science Fiction Lesson – Author Ursula K. Leguin talks about writing and science fiction with Owen Bennett Jones for the BBC World Service.

Split Personality — Author John Banville on author Benjamin Black in The Boston Globe:

I do a Benjamin Black in the spring and early summer. I hate summer so this is a wonderful excuse to sit in my room and pound away at a crime book. I write those quickly on the computer, in three to four months. What I want from Benjamin Black is spontaneity; John Banville writes in longhand with a fountain pen. I can’t do them both at the same time. Banville was never much interested in character, dialogue, and plot, and Black is entirely character and dialogue and plot. With the crime novels, it’s delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It’s like having a fictitious family.

And finally…

A neat animated trailer for the documentary Waiting for “Superman”:

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Published February 1, 2011

Erik Spiekermann — Putting Back the Face into Typography

In this fantastic video from Gestalten, graphic designer and typographer Erik Spiekermann, founder of MetaDesign and FontShop, and author of Stop Stealing Sheep, talks about designing type:

Spiekermann also discusses his love typography in this profile on Deutsche Welle TV:

(via I Love Typography)

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Published January 20, 2011

Technologies That Changed Our Brains

I think what the book… gave us a more attentive way of thinking. What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction. The only thing going on is the, you know, the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive thinking whether you are paying attention to a story or to an argument, or whatever. And what we know about the brain is the brain adapts to these types of tools.

And so the ways of thinking that we learned from the tools we can then apply in other areas of our lives. So we become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. And that’s a very unnatural way of using our mind. You know, paying attention, filtering out distractions. So the book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, discusses how the map, the mechanical clock, and the printed book have shaped human thought, and how the human brain adapts to new technology at The Big Think:

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Published January 18, 2011

Intellectual Messiness

Embracing…messiness and understanding its contribution to the creative process is something that writers and creative types, artists, whatever have got to cultivate, have to learn to be comfortable with. Because it goes against a lot of our kind of instincts and training as kind of educated people.

Writer Malcolm Gladwell at The Big Think:

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Published December 14, 2010

Peter Mendelsund: Stieg Larsson Boxed Set

Peter Mendelsund, Associate Art Director at A.A. Knopf, talking about the design of The Millennium Trilogy boxed set:

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Published December 13, 2010

Bring the Noise: Alex Ross Talks to Paul Morley

Paul Morley interviews fellow music critic Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise and Listen to This,  for The Guardian:

Morley’s post about critics, and meeting Alex Ross, is also worth reading:

I’ve always liked a critic who doesn’t think like anyone else. Someone who takes me so much by surprise with their opinions, approach and rigour that they themselves become a kind of artist. I like a critic who demonstrates that they deserve to evaluate and document the work and art of others by writing in such a way that the work makes more sense, sometimes only makes sense, because of what they write and why they write it. I loved critics, whether it was Kenneth Tynan, Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe, Richard Meltzer, John Updike, Roland Barthes, Pauline Kael, Angela Carter or Lester Bangs, for the way they made it clear, with such evangelical poise, precision and purpose, that without the great critic, the world, and the worlds of those that made up the world, was never properly finished off.

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Published December 3, 2010

Stefan Sagmeister: Don’t Take Creativity For Granted

Stefan Sagmeister outlines the creative process behind his short film projects at 99%:

(via Brain Pickings)

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Published December 2, 2010

Dieter Rams and Vitsœ: 10 Principles of Good Design

Mark Adams, Managing Director of Vitsœ, discusses Dieter Ram’s 10 principles of good design and the elegant 606 Universal Shelving System with Cool Hunting:

And for those of you who just need to see a little more of the 606 Universal Shelving System (and who doesn’t?) here is a short film of it in action:

(via The Fox is Black)

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