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Binky the doormat is the blog of Daniel Gray, a designer and bespectacled adventurer living in York, UK.
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“I’m never satisfied with my work. Invariably, two weeks after finishing a design, I feel like I can do better. When I originally tried to design my blog, I kept finishing a design, hating it and starting over. This happened ten or twelve times until I finally gave up. Eventually, I realized that each post could stand on its own and be its own design that fit the content. Despite the holdbacks of HTML and CSS, it has worked much better than I had even anticipated.”
Dustin Curtis, in The Death of the Blog Post
Affiliation by Ed Ruscha (for Dr B).
“By all accounts, watching Twilight is the cinematic equivalent of seeing a turnip shaped like the Virgin Mary: a miracle for the devoted, a punchline for everyone else.”
Excellent reappraisal of Twilight by the AV Club’s Zack Handlen.
Brooklyn Army Base, 1949 from randomnyc. Hey, sci-fi film-makers, why not save some money: your sets are already out there.
“Unlike other artists of his generation, but with an enthusiasm that, again, would be familiar to any graphic designer, Ruscha began publishing, early and often. Books like Twentysix Gasoline Stations and Every Building on the Sunset Strip were ways of documenting his deadpan obsessions at a modest cost (400 numbered copies for $3.00 each) that, he felt, anyone could afford. ‘I want to be the Henry Ford of book making,’ he explained at the time. Obviously, at that price the books would be sold at a loss, but, he confessed, ‘It is almost worth the money to have the thrill of seeing four hundred exactly identical books stacked in front of you.’”
Ed Ruscha: when art rises to the level of graphic design at Design Observer
“An old Indian craftsman carved elephants from timber. When asked how, he’d say ‘I just cut away the wood that doesn’t look like an elephant’”
Er … not sure where this is from … other than The Chase’s website that it.
Have created a gallery and had a bit of a rant on Flickr about the potential that Stonebow House has to be a Southbank Centre for York. Check it out – and please leave comments! I’m trying to start a bit of public debate about this before some narrow-minded council numpty decides to knock the place down simply because it wasn’t built in the 1600s.
Just spotted this on Covered: Dan Scanlon’s version of X-Men #1. Big smiles all round.
Lots of great work by illustrator Martin Ansin (via Phil Coffman).
“Design has nothing to do with fashion. Philippe Starck is an artist not a designer. He has made some interesting products, OK, but maybe he should think a little bit more! There’s such a lot of things. Such a lot of unusable things. Most things are unnecessary and overdone. Look around. We cannot send to the Third World all the garbage we don’t need any more. We have to go back to more simplicity, longevity.”
Dieter Rams, interviewed by Tom Dyckhoff
