since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things, (that) will never wholly kiss you... ee cummings
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gc494_spring09_rcad schedule for completion: book layout March 16th - April 2nd. Send off for Publishing: April 6th. Final book and blog complete for grading April 23. Portfolio Night April 24th.
LINKS of interest...
an oblique strategy...
forget good
any activity is about the doer not the goal. the stupid secret is the people goal. stupid greatness is the goal when right or better is not the goal. creative is the by product when the doer creates the secret. the secret goal of modest expectations simplifies the doer. simple curiosity should be like mosquitoes in a nudist camp. by-products of activity should sabotage the goal and the doer shouldn’t care.
any activity is about the doer not the goal. the stupid secret is the people goal. stupid greatness is the goal when right or better is not the goal. creative is the by product when the doer creates the secret. the secret goal of modest expectations simplifies the doer. simple curiosity should be like mosquitoes in a nudist camp. by-products of activity should sabotage the goal and the doer shouldn’t care.
Student Blogs
Course Materials
• gc_494_syllabus
• link to library
• aiga
• design_observer.com
COURSE BOOK
Students will be using the following book this semester:
How to be an Explorer of The World: Portable Life Museum
READINGS:
an incomplete manifesto for growth - bruce mau
oblique strategies - brian eno
ad agencies fashion their own horn,and toot it
what does it reallly mean to call for a graphic designer to be author?
what is “self authored graphic design” anyway?
CURIOSITIES
STARN TWINS
I LOVE TYPOGRAPHY
‘Obamicons’
Design is communication DUH...
unusual bookbindings
Zorro with a razor blade...Poster Boy
I LEGO NY
My Life With Cables
presentation zen...
lulu (self publish books)
blurb (self publish books + blogs)
• link to library
• aiga
• design_observer.com
COURSE BOOK
Students will be using the following book this semester:
How to be an Explorer of The World: Portable Life Museum
READINGS:
an incomplete manifesto for growth - bruce mau
oblique strategies - brian eno
ad agencies fashion their own horn,and toot it
what does it reallly mean to call for a graphic designer to be author?
what is “self authored graphic design” anyway?
CURIOSITIES
STARN TWINS
I LOVE TYPOGRAPHY
‘Obamicons’
Can a Rebel Stay a Rebel Without the Claws?
Design is communication DUH...
unusual bookbindings
Zorro with a razor blade...Poster Boy
I LEGO NY
My Life With Cables
presentation zen...
lulu (self publish books)
blurb (self publish books + blogs)
Brain Assist - fill her up here!
As They Would Say...
"My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me, to give the mundane its beautiful due." John Updike
"if you want to get lucky... it pays to be ready" -Michael Bierut
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. - leonard bernstein
Like great buildings that are bigger on the inside than the outside, so design too has to be bigger inside than outside.- brian collins
"who you going to believe?, me or your eyes" -Groucho Marx
"thinking life will be better in the future is stupid- I have to live now" - sagmeister
"life is never the same even if you wanted it to be" -w.mason
"i believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. i attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist." duchamp.
“seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees,” robert irvin
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." Albert Einstein
freedom does not give you perfection - DH
"if you want to get lucky... it pays to be ready" -Michael Bierut
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. - leonard bernstein
Like great buildings that are bigger on the inside than the outside, so design too has to be bigger inside than outside.- brian collins
"who you going to believe?, me or your eyes" -Groucho Marx
"thinking life will be better in the future is stupid- I have to live now" - sagmeister
"life is never the same even if you wanted it to be" -w.mason
"i believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. i attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist." duchamp.
“seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees,” robert irvin
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." Albert Einstein
freedom does not give you perfection - DH