One of my design instructors once said that if you surround yourself with garbage you will only ever produce garbage.
Design humor. I really can’t get enough of it.
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design pantone cartoon humor
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.
You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once…
I’m a total type snob, but this… this is comedy gold.
I think what I feel fortunate about is that I am still astonished — that things still amaze me. And I think that’s a great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears; where you basically have to admit you never learn it.
Milton GlaserPaul Rand Retrospective
Arguably one of the most influential contemporary graphic designers. You’re probably more familiar with his work than you think.
Try Harder of the Day: JPV spends a few minutes pulling clip art into GIMP and wonders “where’s my quarter million dollars”? Odds are they’re being spent on a gilded Wacom tablet as we speak.
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[thanks jpv!]
This Gap redesign could potentially be the London Olympics fiasco of 2010.
(Source: thedailywhat)
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In an ideal world all designers would be allowed to follow these guidelines that this woman follows:
1. Design through action.
2. Design with, not for.
3. Design systems, not stuff.
4. Document, share and measure.
5. Start locally, and scale globally.
6. Build