Passed along books are great.
That’s how we ended up with dog-eared copies of Jules Feiffer’s first books, collections of his beat era comic strips for The Village Voice.
Feiffer did his weekly loose, sketchy strip for 42 years – eventually canceling it when he felt the audience just wasn’t there anymore. [Read more →]
‘Woody, the pen-and-ink protagonist, was angst-ridden, flawed, fearful, insecure, inadequate, pessimistic, urban, single, lustful, rejected by women’
My first ever exposure to Woody Allen came from a comic strip. One that floated around the daily paper.
The very neurotic Inside Woody Allen was drawn by cartoonist Stuart Hample – and ran in newspapers from 1976-84.
The author explains what it was and how it happened here.
Retrospective book available here.
Hample passed away in 2010. Career overview here.
Part 1
Half hour Woody Allen stand up special. Recorded for Granada Television, Manchester, 1965.
Part 2
Part 3
‘The Many Faces of Woody Allen’ by Brandon Schaefer. Prints available here.
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‘Why you should know your shit’
Above, a look at how inspiration from multiple sources work better than tunnel vision. And design school tends to help with this.
Good design influences are everywhere. Ignoring it is like cutting off a limb. Or two.
Illustration by Jessica Hische. Click to view larger/jump.
I’ve been drawing my ‘taste’ chart on a white board for about six or seven years now.
Taste in graphic design is a concept I’ve been aware of for a long time – but as I looked out at what other designers were doing, taste wasn’t always a part of it. I kept seeing graphic designers who were stuck in one mode and not going any further.
‘I know that’ – is typically the term that shuts down most creativity. I’ve heard it from a lot of professionals in my field.
Diversity is the key to being a graphic designer today. Understanding concepts of other design industries – fashion, interior, architecture – even music – takes one further.
So one day in a classroom, I spontaneously drew this ‘taste’ chart.
I’ve since used it with clients, students and other designers to show different ways of approaching graphic design – so we’re not all just sitting here with blinders on, our heads in the sand. [Read more →]
‘Chance favors the connected mind’
Steven Johnson pieces it all together. Interview here. Book here.
TED talk, above. Animate by Andrew Park/CognitiveMedia, below.
‘Vi hart is the creator of fun math-based craft/drawing videos shown in time-lapse with her own narration.’
Website here.
Video doodles (above) led to the 3d-printed Apollonian gasket, below.
Found via Odedadali
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