“Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.”
— Charles Eames
May 28, 2008, 7:46pm
Free Association
This is Steve Kulp’s blog, where he curates his collection of things and ideas that he finds interesting and deposits the occasional rambling about the state of the world. His professional interests include design, advertising, consumer behavior and account planning. His personal interests include everything else.
Bought this book a few weeks back, and just had a chance to sit with it for a while and give it a good read. Matthew Frederick’s 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School is an interesting read for designers, architects and laypeople.I was an architecture and design undergrad, so it had a certain nostalgic resonance for me, personally.
The titular 101 things range from the archi-wonky…
# 79: Always place fire stairs at opposite ends of buildings you design.
…To the sublime…
#81: Properly gaining control of the design process tends to feel like on is losing control of the design process.
…And everything inbetween…
#14: Architecture begins with an idea.
Read liberally, there are words of advice regarding good communication, good account planning and briefing, and good presentation. Like good architecture, it is a lesson in abstract storytelling - conveying ideas in an abstract yet expressive manner. All in all, it is a great little book. Well worth the $10.
May 28, 2008, 1:51pm
Great little video from the surprisingly interesting Barnes & Noble Studio website, featuring John Gall, Art Director at Vintage Books, in which he shares his ”The 5 Rules of Book Cover Design”. In short, they are:
- Read the book
- Inspiration is everywhere
- Be thrifty with fonts
- Practice sound time management
- Rules are meant to be broken
May 23, 2008, 9:32am
“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.”
— - Andy Warhol
May 21, 2008, 10:10am
