Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton.
8x8 | Kris Lane
“ It seems that creativity is adaptive, like anything else. When a space becomes available, work emerges to fill it. The genius, the emergence of a truly remarkable and memorable work, happens when the thing is perfectly suited to its context and is also surprising. And when something works, it strikes us as not just being clever — a good adaptation — but as strongly and emotionally resonant. When the right thing is in the right place we are moved. ”
“ In a way, The Beatles are the Helvetica of pop; just like Helvetica is The Beatles of typefaces. ”
Experimental Jetset (via niktoprojekt/davesparks)
2010/01 Michael Bierut on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“Clients are the difference between design and art. I would go insane trying to work … without clients…. I really need clients to provoke me as a designer to do work.”
“ For people like Maclay, that futuristic aura hasn’t quite gone away. “I remember playing with my dad’s CDs when I was tiny, and then at school we’d put our projects on to CD-Rs to take home. But I never really owned any— by the time I was getting into music nobody bought them.” So when Britain’s high street stores stopped stocking CDs five years ago, like most people, he never imagined he’d miss them. “Even Dad’s getting rid of his now— I told him about the club, and he thinks I’m demented. ”
Pitchfork: Poptimist: Poptimist #26
Imagining whether “CD culture” might also return in the future, and if so, what might drive it and what it might involve. The piece is dated March 2022, so with the exception of Oval, the people and situations described in this article do not as yet exist.
OMG, it’s on the Internets, perverts must be using it, but the best quote
The Internet is like Mexican Food, every site has the same ingredients just in different combinations
