yeah. I collect these.
"Everything is defined by it’s opposite."
Milton Glaser
I really don’t usually reblog. But this says it nicely.
Work Hard & Be Nice To People - 2004 - 2012
Google…..
Google fonts website: buggy, slow, bad UX, ugly aesthetic, choppy loading, has quite a few of knock off typefaces……but it’s freeeeee.
My favorites so far:
Arvo, Cabin, Crimson Text, Josefin Sans/Slab, Lato, Abril Fatface, Muli, Vollkorn, Old Standard, Open Sans/Condensed…..
Design Thinking
It’s wonderful in theory. Only I don’t want it to reduce the design experience into a process that can be overly managed and generalized. I think designers, as similarly stated by Michael Beirut, have a sort of gift or developed ability to bring imagination, surprise, beauty and structure to a project.
Wished I read this 2 years ago…..
"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear prescription for disaster."
Carl Sagan
Design Ethos # 2
Empty desk suggests that design is generated by magic and genius, not work, because nothing so mundane ever passes over it.
-B.Sebstad
Why liquid layouts are shit.
Design Ethos
Skill in design can’t be measured by how many Photoshop shortcuts you know.
Helveticop?
A Reassuring Fable
Will always love Carl Sagan.
"Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is EMPATHY, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding."
Bill Bullard (via lucifelle)
(Source: wakeful-dreamers, via lucifelle)
This should be filled out.
Personalization
I think people are wary of personalization because perhaps they feel that the internet should be something to explore…not something that explores you.
Does this make sense?
