1. Saul Bass: On Making Money vs Quality Work
"It costs every designer money to make things beautiful."
2. Productivity in 11 Words
"One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now."
Probably the best thing I read last week.
Via.
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Nick — Feb 4, 2010
In what will doubtless be the first of several posts, DLB tries to hone in on what exactly we mean when we say "design".
The first item on my list of open questions from Monday is an absolute whopper: "What is design?"
The term design encompasses so many aspects of our culture that it seems nigh impossible to come up with a definition that is neither so general as to be meaningless nor so specific as to exclude too much. But we've got to try. Why, exactly? Because when we say design ethics we mean more than merely, say, graphic design ethics, but less than ethics in general.
Many famous designers have subscribed to very broad notions of design. Among the most broad, Paul Rand claimed that "Everything is design. Everything!" But of course, even if that were true, it's not very helpful.
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Paul — Feb 18, 2009
Toledo, Ohio based artist Spacesick creates clever, spot-on Saul Bass style covers for fake novelizations of largely insipid films.
I find them so witty, they're almost profound. Some of my favorites are below, but they're all available at his Flickr Photostream (be careful, though, mom and dad, some of his content may not be safe for the easily offended).
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Paul — Feb 11, 2009
