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Occupy, Columbus Day

Posted on October 10th, 2011 by steve

Just like BofA and Wells Fargo.

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Occupy, the posters

Posted on October 8th, 2011 by steve

‘I’ve been doing posters for tons of cities across America’

In the past few weeks, one of my former students has found herself cast as the visual heart of the Occupy movement. Raina Dayne started with offering to do a poster and it’s blossomed into something much bigger.

Raina’s images can be downloaded for use at the Occupy Together website. Facebook page here, shirts here.

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Occupy Sesame

Posted on October 8th, 2011 by steve

Occupy Sesame Street. Facebook group here.

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Revolution

Posted on October 8th, 2011 by steve

Macka: My Revolution

Image found via Michael Bosby

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NYC contrasts

Posted on October 7th, 2011 by steve

Above, Empire State of Mind, an ode to New York City.

Below, Adrian Kinloch’s photos from the Brooklyn Bridge, October 1, 2011.

More here.

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Jobs: Making the world a better place

Posted on October 6th, 2011 by steve

‘Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.’ –Steve Jobs

Intuition is very powerful, once one knows how to trust it. It involves turning off the insecurities of ego and concentrating on pure feeling. And it works wonders.

The news of Steve Jobs’ passing came in via social media. I saw a Facebook post right after I gave a design history lecture on early modern artists and how they’d managed to change the world.

I was fortunate enough to both go to school and work in and around Silicon Valley where Jobs’ approach reverberates and inspires. Playing it safe, following the status quo will not lead to new things, will not improve life as we know it – and Jobs knew how to get the best work out of Apple’s creative team.

He knew that details are excruciatingly important. Leveraging design, using good typography, giving us what we really want – instead of what we think we need – was all part of the package.

Thinking different makes the world a better place. That’s the legacy he leaves.

Image by Dylan Roscover, using Apple’s suite of fonts from over the years

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