Michael Bierut of Pentagram Talks About Clients

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:20:25 +0000

Steve Jobs: How to Live Before You Die

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:42:39 +0000

Interesting.

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:50:12 +0000

An interesting listen. Discovered whilst reading Dear Dustin Curtis.

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:29:49 +0000

A very interesting talk by Stefan Sagmeister on design and the benefits of “sabbaticals“.

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:18:47 +0000

An absolutely wonderful video of David Dabner at the London College of Printing:

Some interesting points that were mentioned:

To many, letterpress seems like an obsolete practice, but even to this day David teaches letterpress to his students.
Computers make students sloppy. And that makes for sloppy thinking and sloppy approach.
Good typographers can think; if you can’t think you produce a lot of nonsense, and in thinking you can delete the non-essential.
They stop actually using pencil and paper and they work directly on the computer, which in itself is OK, but I think the computer inhibits their ability to develop.
An analogy could be someone playing jazz, you have to learn how to use the instrument first, otherwise the music will sound terrible.
It’s a tool, and just like any other tool you need to learn how to use it.
You do become elitist because you care, you need to be a little bit elitist, there’s nothing wrong with that.
You’ve got to care about what you’re doing.