Bruce Mau on Wealth
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something to think about.
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Bruce Mau on wealth:
I'm sick of modern design.
I'm fed up with corporate cool.
I can't stand "interior design".
I hate those designer guys -- I love 'em -- but I detest that fabricated,artificial, managed, art-directed look.
I can't bear to see one more "continuous surface".
I've had it with perfection.
I hate the clean lines.
No more computer aided design.
Down with colour consultants.
Down with advertising. Down with PR.
Turn off TV.
Down with minimalism -- we want maximalism.
Down with reduction -- we want more! more! more!
Wealth?
Wealth is time.
Wealth is children.
Wealth is love.
Wealth is ideas, invention, exploration.
Wealth is books.
Wealth is collaboration, colleagues, friends, working together.
We're sick of the fake and phony.
We want it real.
Forget bandwidth.
We don't need a get-away, we need a get-to.
- Lop0
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hey i dont really kno who bruce mau is.... i kno that hes located in toronto and teaches this program at George Brown... but who is he really?.... a Designer?.. a Technologist?...
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www.institutewithoutboundaries.c…...
a bruce mau + george brown program
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http://www.portfolios.com/profil…
for his quick Bio
- majman0
i've always enjoyed reading this:
- adazpay0
I've always enjoyed reading this:
www.brucemaudesign.com...
majman
(mar 24 04, 22:07)Yeah, Il like things like #17:
"17. ——————————. Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others."Or, better yet, #5:
"5. Go deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value."You see, the things that Mr Mau espouses are right, and true, and well worth pursuing.
Unfortunately, they lack soul.
I find that the majority of intelligent people fall back on this reactionist rhetoric. It's hard for me to read the manifesto of a man who built wealth and a career on the things on which he's now pooh-pooing. Look at the stuff at the previous portfolio link. Look at the bourgeois monograph he put out a few months ago. Takes a little cash to make that, maybe his friend printed and bound it. I reckon he and his friend had to put some time in the trenches to get to this point; making designs that ran perpendicular to the .. MMMmm yum, boubon .. perpendicular to his little manifesto aforementioned.
Despite the "mainfesto" quoted here, the "manifesto" quoted to start the thread makes a little more sense. It matches my dreams rather well. But, as Mr S'Nigga may remember, my first client of '04 effing hung himself. Hung himself! I've since freelanced for a "scientific instrument company" and produced a brochure for a woman and her new company for shitty pay. I'd love to work with "friends and colleagues" but friends and colleagues are twenty-somethings that make paintings and kidnap people for a living and edit videos. Thay don't have lawyer husbands or two generations of wealth behind them.
Common sense prevails, but ideology keeps us talking.
Oi.
WAAAAAAAYYY too long.
ps. I'm heading towards NYC kinda soon, is that weekly Friday thizzing still hizzappening?
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Very well said!... screw mau... im gonna follow u :D
- fresnobob0
I'm sick of design.
- Dolan0
Rich people who talk about how money is unimportant are reserving themselves a special corner in hell, I hope.
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hahaah... i remember when i was 11 yrs old.. my computer was REALLY slow!!.. my parents wont upgrade my computer so one they i thought of emailing bill gates and asking him to donate me a computer ... i found his email.. even emailed him... but never got a reply back... u can see how much he loves his money ... :@
- Lop0
it's the same rich people who tell you that money don't make you happy
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btw.. Bruce Mau's program at George Brown college is of 12,000$ (cdn) for a yr...
http://www.institutewithoutbound…
- kpl0
http://www.textism.com/maunifest…
Bruce Mau needs to watch more Michael Bay flicks. And then shut up about Maximalism.