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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Things I have learned in my life so far
I have been quite a fan of Sagmeister's series "Things that I have learned in my life so far," so I was pleasantly surprised when I came upon these videos on you tube. Sagmeister has created an online community at www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com which encourages his colleagues to post their own interpretations of his now famous pearl of wisdom. The two videos posted below were done by Sagmeister himself, to kick start the project. I have included his comments below each video.
In a couple of minutes I am going to enter a sixty-ton tube that will, unlikely as it is if I just stop and think about it for a second, lift me and another two hundred people thirty thousand feet into a perfectly blue sky. Although this is rather miraculous, I take it for granted.
This is true of my work, of my relationships, of my city. I remember being on a road trip through Arizona, and as mesmerized as I initially was by the big sky and fantastical landscape, after day ten it seemed like just more red rocks to me.
I have lived in New York for seventeen years, and it’s still my favorite place in the world, but like so many of its inhabitants, I get lazy and take it for granted. So for this project we thought of designing typography created by situations we had never been in before in New York (and therefore could not possibly take for granted).
Keeping a diary supports personal development.I have kept a diary since I was twelve years old. During my already mentioned sabbatical in the year 2000, besides the many things I completed, I also found more time for diary writing.
My handwriting has deteriorated into such a scrawl over the years, with whole sections—written down during excited periods—too difficult to decipher, that I switched from writing in handwritten journals to typing on my laptop. I do use the diary to go back and reread certain passages, to see what my thinking was, and, most importantly, to discover things I feel need changing: When I have repeatedly described a circumstance or character trait of mine that I dislike, I eventually wind up doing something about it.
Having tried separate private and business diaries for a while but finding that too fussy, I now write at least once a week into a single file.
I published part of my diary from my client-free year as a little booklet sponsored and given away by the paper company Appleton. I do have to admit this has affected my diary writing every since; a little voice whispering, Other people might read this now seems to make itself heard in my head.
My old acquaintance Richard Johnson from Singapore offered a ticket and a budget to create another sentence there. He specified no particular media; the studio was free to design a book or a newspaper or a film or…
Having lived in Hong Kong in the early nineties I was fascinated by the bamboo scaffolding in service all over Southeast Asia and wanted to utilize this technique typographically. To expedite the permit process we sent location sketches off to Singapore.
The decision to shoot a film** instead of designing a book or billboards was made in a gutsy moment simply because this was the form I knew the least about. My only previous experience with the medium stemmed from codirecting a music video for Lou Reed. Even though the results were fine, I remember the process as being incredibly anxiety-ridden. I was without a doubt the person on the set who knew the least about filmmaking. The most enduring image from that shoot for me was a catering table covered by a cheap plastic tablecloth: Every time I passed it on my way to the loo I had to resist the longing to hide underneath.
In a couple of minutes I am going to enter a sixty-ton tube that will, unlikely as it is if I just stop and think about it for a second, lift me and another two hundred people thirty thousand feet into a perfectly blue sky. Although this is rather miraculous, I take it for granted.
This is true of my work, of my relationships, of my city. I remember being on a road trip through Arizona, and as mesmerized as I initially was by the big sky and fantastical landscape, after day ten it seemed like just more red rocks to me.
I have lived in New York for seventeen years, and it’s still my favorite place in the world, but like so many of its inhabitants, I get lazy and take it for granted. So for this project we thought of designing typography created by situations we had never been in before in New York (and therefore could not possibly take for granted).
Keeping a diary supports personal development.I have kept a diary since I was twelve years old. During my already mentioned sabbatical in the year 2000, besides the many things I completed, I also found more time for diary writing.
My handwriting has deteriorated into such a scrawl over the years, with whole sections—written down during excited periods—too difficult to decipher, that I switched from writing in handwritten journals to typing on my laptop. I do use the diary to go back and reread certain passages, to see what my thinking was, and, most importantly, to discover things I feel need changing: When I have repeatedly described a circumstance or character trait of mine that I dislike, I eventually wind up doing something about it.
Having tried separate private and business diaries for a while but finding that too fussy, I now write at least once a week into a single file.
I published part of my diary from my client-free year as a little booklet sponsored and given away by the paper company Appleton. I do have to admit this has affected my diary writing every since; a little voice whispering, Other people might read this now seems to make itself heard in my head.
My old acquaintance Richard Johnson from Singapore offered a ticket and a budget to create another sentence there. He specified no particular media; the studio was free to design a book or a newspaper or a film or…
Having lived in Hong Kong in the early nineties I was fascinated by the bamboo scaffolding in service all over Southeast Asia and wanted to utilize this technique typographically. To expedite the permit process we sent location sketches off to Singapore.
The decision to shoot a film** instead of designing a book or billboards was made in a gutsy moment simply because this was the form I knew the least about. My only previous experience with the medium stemmed from codirecting a music video for Lou Reed. Even though the results were fine, I remember the process as being incredibly anxiety-ridden. I was without a doubt the person on the set who knew the least about filmmaking. The most enduring image from that shoot for me was a catering table covered by a cheap plastic tablecloth: Every time I passed it on my way to the loo I had to resist the longing to hide underneath.
Edible Type
I was recently assigned a brief in my DART 392 class which instigated a crazed photo adventure in search of some inspiring signage. Always having had a soft spot for all things of the so bad it's good variety, my group and I decided to focus on hand painted/hand rendered signage of neighborhood mom and pops shops.
Here are some of the highlights:
For the second part of the brief we decided to focus our attention on greasy spoon diners and created a typeface made entirely of food.
Here are some of the highlights:
For the second part of the brief we decided to focus our attention on greasy spoon diners and created a typeface made entirely of food.
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