© Wired (via Youtube)
Industrial designer James Dyson took over Wired’s Twitter account to answer some questions and share some design knowledge along the way last year. Notes taken.
A friend gave me design advice once. He said to start with left-aligned black text on a white background, and to apply styling only to solve a specific problem. This is good advice. Embrace this, and you embrace Brutalist Web Design. Focus on your content and your visitors will enjoy you and your website. Focus on decoration or tricking your visitors into clicking ads, and your content will suffer, along with your visitors.
Some ideas David Bryant Copeland proposes in his Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design might sound a tad radical, but I do like the general concept, so I’m tempted to follow along.
© Phoebe Bridgers / Dead Oceans (via Youtube)
Another beautiful piece of music by Phoebe Bridgers. She wrote Sidelines for the soundtrack of ‘Conversations With Friends’ where a lot of the great-looking footage for the music video was taken from. The melancholic song furthermore is featured in the Trailer of the Hulu series.
© ARTE (via Youtube)
Great German short documentary by franco-german television station ARTE about Machiya, a traditional architectural style from Japan.
The entire series Stadt, Land, Kunst (City, Country, Art) is fascinating —not only but all the more when the segments are about my place of longing.
I don’t care about my body of work. I don’t care about having some ceavure. I don’t care about having a consistent body of work. The only thing that gives me enjoyment is the current pursuit of whatever I’m doing.
Self-publishing on the internet is a rewarding and powerful experience – you can very quickly produce work that is accessible to billions of people for very low cost.
Building websites is often seen as an uncreative, mathematics-based task undertaken by coders. This library encourages you to learn how to design and build interactive experiences and to consider this a tool in your design toolkit.
If you want to publish something online for the first time, this website is a great starting point. As a matter of fact, even if you’ve been building websites for a while already you might discover one or the other nugget –like the already linked idea of Web Design as Architecture– to pick up.
© ARD / Alligatoah (via Youtube)
Ich mix’ uns Grippeviren mit Brausetabletten /
Nur wenn wir außer Gefecht sind, könn’n wir auch mal relaxen /
Ich verschiebe die Termine bis in alle Ewigkeit /
Viel zu viel zu tun für das bisschen Lebenszeit /
— Alligatoah feat. Felix Brummer – Beinebrechen
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© Kirby Ferguson (via YouTube)
There is an element of explotation to all creatitvity, to appropriate is to take without permission —that’s creativity. You don’t ask others if you could do it, you just do it. Who would you ask anyway? It’s okay to take if you do it the right way.
As a foreigner very much into Asian –more particularly Japanese– culture, philosophy and design, cultural appropriation is a topic I’ve thought about quite a bit already —and even more so since I’m a father now, trying to be the best role model I can be.
Just like with his absolutely amazing series on remixing, Kirby Ferguson makes some valid points on this sensitive topic during his Farewell to Cultural Appropriation.
On a related note: Ferguson is bringing his 2020 series This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory to YouTube (for free). Episode one is available already, the other five parts will be released every two weeks. I haven’t seen it as of now, so I can’t tell you if it is any good, but given the recent track record of the filmmaker, I’m going to watch it for sure!
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
© The Beauty Of (via Youtube)
Some shots from one of my favourite movies, 2021’s fantastic interpretation of Frank Herberts Dune by Denis Villeneuve.
© Sigrid (via Youtube)
When the world is on your shoulders /
And the weight of your own heart is too much to bear /
Wеll, I know that you’re afraid things will always be this way /
It’s just a bad day, not a bad life
— from Bad Life by Sigrid feat. Bring Me The Horizon
Looking forward to the second album “How To Let Go” by Norwegian singer and songwriter Sigrid to be released on Friday, three years after her debut “Sucker Punch”.