“Quite broadly, I think of the fine arts as a method by which humans ask the big questions not necessarily knowing the answers, whereas design enables people to create answers quite concretely. A strength of RISD (Rhode Island School of Design)’s balanced curriculum is that the fine artists help the designers consider the big unanswereable …
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One Red Paperclip: Or How an Ordinary Man Achieved His Dream with the Help of A Simple Office Supply
Design by Kyle Kolker You might have heard this story: Man trades paperclip for house. More here. We all should have seen this one coming. And I know from comments left on previous posts that there are some of you out there who question the marketing wisdom of covers with no titles, but I saw …
And Now A Word From Our Sponsor, Part 6,732
If you liked the machine guns for kids in our last old comic book ad here’s a nice companion piece. I had one of these babies when I was young. I could barely breath when I slipped it over my head to play “army”, but its coolness was well worth the near suffocation. (click for …
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How Not to Get Your Stuff Done
Cute little video showing how not to get your stuff done: Now I’m going to shut the door, unplug my email, and get my stuff done. Via Ian’s Messy Desk How Not to Get Your Stuff Done
ASHLEY WOOD’S TELEPHONE LINES
These pictures by illustrator Ashley Wood seem to be a cross between drawing and knife fighting. Wood is one of those artists whose drawings benefit from controlled accidents. His slashing lines and spattered ink are part skill, part chance and part hydrological experiment. When you work that way, you can’t be too picky about your …
Reading in the news
One in four U.S. adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday… . The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year — …
Burning Man: Art in the Desert
This is only the third time I’ve posted a book with a slipcover (the others are here and here), but this is no doubt the one I would want on my bookshelf. Ah, who am I kidding. I want all three. Buy this book from Amazon.comBurning Man: Art in the Desert
Slow down and read
I have a short piece up on Lifehack this morning, with some advice for students about reading: Slow down and read (Lifehack.org) Tagslifehacks, readingSlow down and read
It’s Dollman Monday! (Redux)
While trolling through Scott Shaw’s wonderful Oddball Comics site I found a interesting Doll Man cover. Sol Brodsky and Israel Waldman under their I. W. Publishing/Super Comics, Inc. imprint illegally reprinted Golden Age stories from old art or printing plates they dug up in the 1960s. Doll Man had three issues resurrecting his stories including …
Batman #90
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