Very cool info graphic illustrating how our crazy ass government [doesn’t] work. Click to enlarge.
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Peter Saville on Pop Culture
Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. —Peter Saville
It’s All Ball Bearings Nowadays
FLETCH: I’m gonna’ need some pliers, and a set of 30 weight ball bearings (it’s all ball bearings nowadays) And I’m gonna’ need about 10 quarts of antifreeze, preferably Prestone. No, make that Quaker State. Chevy Chase from the movie Fletch (1985)
Cassandre: Master of The Airbrush!
Cassandre combined Synthetism and lyricism to create a new form of image to exalt the product: L’Intransigeant was a paen to communications; Etoile du Nord and Nord Express to the railways; and Normandie to the great ocean liners. Master of the airbrush (a technique that enabled him to produce smooth gradations of colour), the use…
The Disease Was Life Itself
As a child, Wallace was forceful and imaginative. He frequently made his younger sister play audience to long, ad lib dramas populated by characters like Captain Phlegm and his sidekick Goat Bile. During adolescence, Wallace moved into the basement of the family’s Philo, Illinois home. He painted the walls black and hung cork tiles on…
Eating with Whores
[T]able fellowship [is] a map of economic discrimination, social hierarchy, and political differentiation…What [Jesus] advocates, therefore, is an open commensality, an eating together without using table as a miniature map of society’s vertical discriminations and lateral separations…Since Jesus lived out his own parable, the most predictable counteraccusation to such open commensality would be immediate: Jesus…
Neville Brody on mass communication
At the end of the day, I think we must always try to expand our spectrum. The more people we try to communicate with, the more generic our messages have to become. And as our messages become more generic, it’s less likely that people will have access to anything that’s different. I know this is…
Stefan Sagmeister on ‘talent’ and ‘graphic design’
Q: When did you realize you had design talent? A: I feel that talent is the implemented desire to excel at something. I had a strong desire to be good at design… Q: How would you define the term “graphic design”? A: Surely you must be joking. Smarter people have shot their little toe off…
What The Church Could Learn at Design School
The dread of criticism is the death of genius. –William Gilmore Simms I have been thinking a great deal about criticism, specifically, how a certain understanding of criticism, such as that found to be held by various people in the field of visual arts, could potentially carry over to other areas of life. Being a…
The Rumors are True…
Yup, I’ve been taking bridge lessons. Wanna make somethin’ of it!?!