January 2012
2 posts
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weekly roundup:
Orwell — Politics and the English Language
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Benjamin — The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Inventory, Catalogue, Systems of Flux…, a Statement
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Interview with Dan Friedman — by Peter Rea
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Sandberg Design Discussion — typeradio
December 2011
4 posts
speak by doing
Remain as mellow as possible. Pressure builds quickly, as you could be judging yourself a little too much. Let go of this internal conversation. Go off and accomplish what you must. Tonight: Easy works.
http://www.dot-dot-dot.us/index.html?id=20 →
Here are three quotes which describe what I’m trying to relate better than I can — and is precisely why we repeatedly gravedig history — simply because peoeple have articulated it better than we can: Where we have spoken openly we have actually said nothing. But where we have written in code and in pictures we have revealed the truth. A person who calls his stuff the “new” this...
November 2011
4 posts
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
3 posts
Experiment
so if:
All life is an experiment.
&
Experimentation is the engine of progress, its fuel a mixture of instinct, intelligence or discipline is in the mix.
therefore:
The more experiments you make the better.
School For Free: →
February 2011
6 posts
Joyous Urban Jumble
(What the Annex in Toronto could have looked like with the Spadina Expressway)
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. ‘Artist’s conceptions’ and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse...
mallaeble truth
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference
‘One might think Aesthetics is a science that tells us what’s beautiful — it’s almost too ridiculous for words. I suppose this science would also be able to tell us what sort of coffee tastes good’
‘If...
Deliberate Deliberation
QFT:
To really think about design, you need to learn and think about everything other than it. Design is a vessel: the most important part is what it holds. As makers of things, the work gets better from outside influences, and gives us clarity about the purpose of the work: to inform, to persuade, and to delight. We’ll spend some time ruminating on what it means to delight our...
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art that inserts noise into a system of knowledge will, hopefully, succeed in breaking up its ready-made and in reshuffling its pieces.
what emerges is a noisy kind of knowledge, one that embraces the playful unruliness of the world.
—Stuart Bailey (dotdotdot #20)
Office for Soft Architecture
If there is to be a “new urbanism” it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and omnipotence; it will be the staging of uncertainty; it will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent objects but with the irrigation of territories with potential…
—Rem Koolhaas
“The spatio-economic system of Lot 26 functions as a mutating lens:...
January 2011
3 posts
Ralph Ginzburg: On Trial
The other month I found a rare publication ‘Eros on Trial’ by Ralph Ginzburg, featuring an interview on the ridiculous trial for sending his magazine ‘Eros’ (art directed by popular typographer Herb Lubalin) through the mail.
It also features an interesting advert on the back stating ‘are you avant-garde?… or derriere?’ ‘see other side of this...
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson”
Stuart Bailey gets it right. →
I guess it’s because that sort of rhetoric—ideologies, systems, strategies, which seems to ape the language of war and social change—comes from a particular sort of art or architecture writing. When it gets filtered to graphic design, which is mostly everyday and ephemeral, it just doesn’t fit right. I find it a bit embarrassing That’s why most design writing feels like self-justification,...
December 2010
1 post
School (for free)
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture Online Lectures
Interesting lecture about a Motto distribution which just opened up in Vancouver.
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LoR/E, the Library of Readings & Essays—A Comprehensive Index of Keywords & Defining Subject Matters, is a self-initiated, continually- in-progress, provisional project created and maintained by R. Gerald Nelson since 2010.
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January 2010
7 posts
MILTON GLASER TALKS WITH CHIP KIDD
A fantastic interview from the depths of the last decade—2003.
CK: Did you make any money off of it?
MG: No. It was all pro bono.
CK: Oh my God. “I ‘Heart’ New York” was pro bono! Yikes! Frightening!
MG: No, that’s what it should be. You want to do things like that, where you feel you can actually change things.
CK: Yes, and affect the culture. Do you mind that the logo is ripped off so...
EVEN MORE MILTON GLASER
“Some years ago I read a most remarkable thing about love, that also applies to the nature of co-existing with others. It was a quotation from Iris Murdoch in her obituary. It read ‘ Love is the extremely difficult realisation ...
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The Essays of Montaigne
easily one of the most wise philosophers of all time. if you cannot pick up the beautiful penguin version, (letterpress cover)—then here is the online version of his essays. he has taught me a great deal.
CHAPTER XXIX. OF MODERATION As if we had an infectious touch, we, by our manner of handling, corrupt things that in themselves are laudable and good: we may grasp virtue so that it becomes...
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– ALAN FLETCHER
…He once remarked thus about work and life – “I’d sooner do the same on Monday or Wednesday as I do on a Saturday or Sunday. I don’t divide my life between labour and pleasure.” It is this ethos that, I think, that contributed to the amazing body of work he has done. When...
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
– Michel De Montaigne
Pluche ou l'amour de l'art.
This book changed my life. No word of a lie. Picked it up off the street book dealer in the Annex for 2$. It is definitely priceless. Please read it.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909164-1,00.html
http://www.jstor.org/pss/40122609
ON ART AND MONEY: “There can’t be any question of despising money. On the contrary, one’s painting has to bring it in. But one...
