I love when the general public finds brilliant solutions to overlooked design problems.
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Cold weather + not wanting to remove gloves + iPhone + sausages = productivity!
Snack sausages make great substitutes for browsing fingers. Something Apple’s design team hadn’t quite anticipated. Details here.
And
You too can be productive! Snag some Slim Jims for your iPhone . . . here.
Found via Kottke
The beautiful photography of Barcelona-based Lara Alegre.
Website here. Flickr here. MySpace here.
Found via Because It’s Nice
Joseph Polchin, Sr. (1906-99)
Today is my grandfather’s birthday.
I always thought it was cool that his birthday was celebrated with a National Holiday. He always reminded me of Lincoln anyway. We call him ‘Pappy.’
Pappy spent most of his life in Hazleton, PA (my family is from there). Loved baseball, enjoying a cigar (taught me how to correctly smoke one), could bake a killer huckleberry pie (with berries picked locally, they grew wild in Hazleton) – and I still have a full bottle of the Windsor Canadian Whisky he picked up on his last visit to California (he always insisted on the cheap stuff). At this point – it’s at least 20 years old – makes a really smoooth cocktail.
In the 1930s, Pappy took a printing/typesetting correspondence course. He actually knew a bit about what I do as a graphic/font designer. He was one of the few in my family I could talk to about my chosen profession.
So have a whisky (or martini), cigar, kick back and enjoy Pappy’s Day 2010.
Photo taken by Bob Gray, Winter 1987
The Dirty Dozen: 12 Things Which Kill Creativity. Article here.
Dirty Dozen poster by The Silent Giants. Info here.
The Silent Giants blog here.
‘Always a great read for creatives’ –retinart
Designer Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, begun in 1998.
Read here. Great ideas – many of them resonate with my own design process; which took years to develop and is still constantly evolving.
I stay up late, I don’t clean my desk, I make accidents, my first drafts of anything are often random mistakes, most of my best ideas happen when I’m not working, I think computers really fuck things up (that comes from Tibor Kalman, actually), I’ve been avoiding award competitions like the plague, I ask stupid questions, imitate, drift, scat, jump fences and most important,
I laugh. At everything.
I believe evolution is key to creative growth. If it stops, stagnation seeps in. And things become dull really fucking fast.
Steven Snell’s 10 keys to growth as a designer. Article here.
Sketchbook photos found via Design Mom
‘Try playing the Trajan drinking game’
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