January 2010
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who put the dead bird in my mailbox?
I tend to accumulate browser bookmarks like some people accumulate twinless socks. When switching over from my old computer I ditched most of them, keeping only the important ones (email, Facebook, blogs I follow regularly).
And I kept this: a craigslist posing from New York.
This post is possibly the single most poignant piece of literature I have ever read, and also the strangest. The way it...
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Just don't ask how I got these.
Okay, let’s talk about the Sherlock Holmes credit sequence(s).
The greatness actually starts at the beginning of the film. I have seen many people praising the end credits (and I will here as well), but the introduction is just as brilliant. Quite frequently the inclusion of the production company logos is sloppily or thoughtlessly done, each simply appearing on-screen for a moment then...
Sketch, sketch, sketch
A bonus post today, with some excellent advice.
52weeksofux:
I’ve heard it so many times: “I can’t sketch a stick-figure to save my life.”
Some people are afraid of showing their drawing to others. They think they’ll be ridiculed if their sketch looks like it was drawn by a five-year old.
In truth, it doesn’t matter if you are good at sketching. The less formal the sketch, the better. In...
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I’ve talked a bit before about the cyclical nature of fashion → design → fashion, but I didn’t quite realize it worked like this. Pantone has published its guide to Spring 2010 fashion colours, and above I have put together the key ten colours featured. The list is inspired by fashion design, but is made to influence fashion design… all I can say is, what a weird industry....
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And he plays the guitar clear as ringing a bell
My boyfriend collects guitars.
A lot of design is about pairing aesthetics with functionality, and never is that more true, I feel, than in the design of a musical instrument. A guitar is useless, after all, if it can’t hit the note when you want it to—no matter how much glitter you put on it.
Maybe it’s because of this post-digital backlash that makes me long for colours and materials and...
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