Author: David Airey
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Paula Scher on pro bono
“That’s why pro bono work is great. You choose to do it, and if you’re choosing to do it to grow your own work, your deal is essentially that you’re not going to collaborate. You’re going to do the job the way you think the job is gonna be done.” Paula Scher, photo by John…
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“The appointment of a design consultant needn’t always culminate in change.”
It’s a familiar story — there’s a change at the top of an organisation and a rebrand is one of the first things to happen. But it’s often a backward step, where what follows is no better than what came before, while costing a fortune to implement. “…the fact that British consultancy North has just…
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Analogue Loaders, behind the scenes
Analogue Loaders is the “animated autobiography” of Raphael Vangelis, where he turns well-known digital symbols into something analogue and playful.
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The Met makes 375,000 images free
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new policy known as Open Access, making 375,000 images of artworks freely available for unrestricted use (including commercial) in accordance with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation. The museum’s director and CEO, Thomas Campbell, said in a statement: “We have been working toward the goal of sharing our…
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Bowie on design ideas
“If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth, and when you feel that your feet aren’t quite touching the bottom you’re…
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Saul Bass: Style is Substance
15 minutes well-spent watching a couple of commentaries about the title sequences of Saul Bass. “Despite the fact that true title sequences aren’t really something that most movies carry today, the ones that do feature them are almost always in debt to Bass’ style and philosophy.” “What you’re seeing is actually a short version of…
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Good Hair Day Pasta
I can’t imagine the link between hair and food ever taking off, but this pasta packaging concept gets full marks for invention. Designed by Nikita Konkin, Moscow. Via Baubauhaus.
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The five constraints
In one of his talks, Blair Enns of Win Without Pitching focuses on five business constraints, and bets that those who apply them are much more likely to succeed. Leslie Green’s No Exit sign in London’s Holloway Road tube station. 1. You can never sell or retire. 2. No more than 10 clients at any…
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Swim the other way
Don’t Get a Job… Make a Job, by Gem Barton, is a book that’ll help recent design graduates find work. It’s full of case studies and interviews with designers who’ve chosen their own paths in business rather than follow the traditional “get a job, work your way up” route. They talk about how to find…