Writings by Designers
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- ohhhhhsnap
Any blogs you all follow, by your peers? Can include pro. articles about the field (ie, alistapart.com), but I'm more looking for names of individuals.
OR sites that host the writings of designers (or whatever your field is) that inspire you.
- antimotion0
Great blog:
- ohhhhhsnap0
This guy has some good articles/writings on his tumblr, trying to weed through to find the couple i thought were note worthy not too long ago: http://ialreadydontlikeyou.tumbl…
- ohhhhhsnap0
a colleague sent this over my way not too long ago:
http://getfrictionless.comso so simple, and good.
- fresnobob0
Emigre was text only for a while...
- I have all the old print editions from the late '90s early 2000smonospaced
- ohhhhhsnap0
this one is particularly moving/well written, by Jonathan Moore
http://jonathanmoore.com/post/35…
Graphic designers, are fucking amazing writers.
- ohhhhhsnap0
this one is particularly moving/well written, by Jonathan Moore
http://jonathanmoore.com/post/35…
Graphic designers, are fucking amazing writers.
- identity0
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Metagramme.com
- omg0
QBN is the public voice of design....
- gramme0
I write design-related essays/articles and non design-related poetry.
- this is great!ohhhhhsnap
- cute site. Your twitter link is dead though - https://twitter.com/…set
- Good catch, thanks! Just fixed it.gramme
- it's still not going to a working twitter pageset
- https://twitter.com/…set
- gramme0
This guy's brilliant and articulate.
- ohhhhhsnap0
- medium.com cmon!ohhhhhsnap
- lots of great stuff on there
breadlegz
- animatedgif0
1. Click link
2. See medium.com url
3. Close tabSo many terrible "articles"
- pressplay0
Otl Aicher is the first that I think of. He wrote quite a lot about design as well as other things. Obviously not everything is up to date (he passed in 1991) and I don’t know about english translations.
- necromation0
A Manifesto for Higher Learning
1. No amount of ingenuity or creativity can create strong, clear, memorable design solutions from confused thought. This is why design is first and foremost a means of organising ideas. Design is thinking made visible.
2. Opinion is welcomed but is not enough. Your ideas must be substantiated through facts and testing, through research and evaluation.
3. Solutions will always vary according to context, interpretation and objectives. There are no absolute answers. Learn instead to ask the right questions.
4. Regardless of any specific design interest or preference that you may have, in today’s world all designers need to develop a multi-form understanding that is able to respond to multiple communication needs and platforms. Thus multimedia is not a component of contemporary design, it is its definition.
5. Beware of fashion – it encourages the idea that nothing is lasting and that you always have to be on the move. If you are never still you will never encounter profundity. Learn to stay in the same place and dig deeper.
6. Take nothing for granted. Learn to question what you think you know. Remember that the extraordinary is as likely to reside in the ground beneath our feet as in the stars above our heads. Your ability will not simply be measured by your willingness to explore new ideas and new territory but also through the ways that you are able to apply new ideas to familiar territory.
7. Critical thought being central to design does not make technical and craft skills secondary. Visual communication is not simply dependent on the power of thought. It is a process of making – of transforming ideas into tangible expressions. Thinking and making are not alternatives to each other. They are forces of reciprocal power within the design process. One cannot take place without the other.
8. Every tool has its own characteristics, every visual technique its own expressiveness, and every form its own possibilities and limitations. Your success is dependent on your ability to manipulate that knowledge with skill and sensibility. You must learn your craft.
9. Design does not exist solely in the realm of the intellect. The power to enlighten, to celebrate, to inform and to disturb expectations also lies in the capacity to make emotional connections. Always use your head but never forget your heart.
10. You cannot succeed without commitment. You cannot thrive without passion. You cannot survive without pleasure. All these things, or their absence, will be reflected in your work. The resonance of design as a collective social project is in your hands.
Andrew Howard
... Smart man.