March 2012
2 posts
Design Trends I Predicted That Has Come to Past
Bit of a self-serving post, but also a reflection of my thoughts from a few years ago.
I blogged a while back about my aversion to Apple’s glossy, pixel perfect design aesthetic, that “everything glows so brightly. It’s…inhuman….It’s too slick, too sterile, detached from reality. “
And maybe in respond I wrote that unlike print design which exists in...
Stop Being a Fan of Other Designers
I went to art school because I wanted to paint like Francesco Clemente. And so I tried for a long time to paint like him.
And then one day my painting teacher told me, “You know, you can’t out Francesco Clemente-d Francesco Clemente.”
And so I stopped trying to paint like him, and find my own point of view. I stopped consuming other peoples work, in art, in movies, in magazines.
The other...
