August 2009
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Did I mention how much I love Field Notes?
Now that I’ve had them for a bit and they’ve gone through a little over a week and a half of work with me, I really do like these little notebooks. The best part about them is their size and simplicity. While Moleskines are nice, they’re almost too nice. You sort of want to baby them and keep them nice and perfect on a shelf or something. Field Notes, on the other hand, you want...
Yes Men
If you’re constantly trying to please everyone, you’re never going to do good work. Do good work and you may not please everyone, but at least you can be proud of it.
It never ceases to amaze me the gaping void between the attitude of designers and the attitude of account management. Account managers only care about pleasing the client… so they have their conference calls, take...
“See, that’s the difference between cats that started writing when I first...”
– Askia Jones
“If you always hire people who are smaller than you are, you shall become a...”
– David Ogilvy
“A leader or an interest that can make itself master of current symbols is master...”
– Walter Lippmann
Wayne Levin's underwater photography
Wayne Levin via coldsplinters
If you haven’t heard Major Lazer’s...
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Grizzly Bear's Two Weeks fan videos almost better...
The amount of time and dedication fans put into some of the projects they do for bands amazes me. Grizzly Bear’s Two Weeks seems to be one that fans have been more than happy to tackle. With the amount of time and effort that goes into making something like this, it baffles my mind that people are willing to do this much work for free.
Some of the standouts include:
Gabe Askew (via...
“There is nothing that ‘doesn’t matter.’ Every pixel matters....”
– John Welch
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Shepard Fairey's new Obama cover for Rolling Stone
It’s been six-plus months since Obama took office, and the Rolling Stone cover is the first image of Obama I’ve created in that time. As a candidate, his vision and his message of shared civic duty were inspiring, but as president he faces an unbelievable pressure to accomplish what he set out to do, despite the reality that he can’t do it alone. As Joe Strummer of The Clash once said, “The...
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