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The best designs come from not one, but hundreds of well-made decisions. The worst designs arise out of hundreds of poorly-made decisions. All that stands between you and a great design is the quality of your decisions. Where do they come from? For the last five years, we’ve been studying how designers make their decisions. When do they use outside information, such as research about their users? When do they go with their gut instinct? When do the designers look to past decisions and the lessons they’ve learned? What we found will surprise you. In this presentation, Jared will take you on an entertaining deep dive into the gut instinct of the best designers (without looking at all the gooey parts). You’ll learn five styles of decision making, from Self Design to Experience-focused Design, and which style produces quality results. Prepare to learn how to be a better designer, as Jared shares the secrets of the best and worst. Produced by Sean Carmichael
In this presentation, Jared will take you on an entertaining deep dive into the gut instinct of the best designers (without looking at all the gooey parts). You’ll learn five styles of decision making, from Self Design to Experience-focused Design, and which style produces quality results. Prepare to learn how to be a better designer, as Jared shares the secrets of the best and worst.
Our speaker at the February 2011 CreativeMornings/NewYork was wonderful Debbie Millman (http://debbiemillman.com/). The event was generously hosted by Galapagos Art Space (http://galapagosartspace.com/) in DUMBO, Brooklyn. ........ ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Debbie Millman is a partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands, one of the leading brand identity firms in the country. Millman is president of AIGA, and chair of the School of Visual Arts master's program in Branding. She is a contributing editor to Print magazine and host of the podcast Design Matters. She is the author of How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007),The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008) and Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design (How Books, 2009). ........ ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS? CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee! You can currently join us in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. (http://www.creativemornings.com) ........ A big thank you to Sy J. Abudu (http://syjabudu.com/) for filming and editing the talk.
Debbie Millman was the guest speaker at last February's Creative Mornings. The talk explores some of the ideas she wished she had known once she graduated from college. It is full of great advice and insightful anecdotes from her 30 years as a branding expert. You should also subscribe to her Design Matters podcast which profiles industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers and educators.
Award-winning designer, Bierut is a partner in the New York design firm Pentagram. He was commissioned by the New World Symphony to create a new logo inspired by the Gehry-designed performance hall itself. Here he shares the path he took to create the logo—a process by which art of one sort influenced art of another.
Composed completely of photographs. A project by Luke Shepard, a student at The American University of Paris. Location: Paris, France Camera: Nikon D90 Music: 'Intro' by The XX (http://www.thexx.info) Special thanks to Henry Farrow Miller.
Luke Shepard, a student at the American University of Paris, began working on Le Flaneur as part of a project for school, but it quickly took on a life of its own. He used a Nikon D90 DSLR camera to take over 2,000 photos of Paris at night, and then used Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro to produce this impressive tour of a world that most of us rarely see – Paris without Parisians. In English, “flaneur” translates roughly as “stroller,” “loafer,” or perhaps “aimless walker,” and, in an interview with National Geographic Traveler, Shepard explained that he was inspired to shoot these images in part by late-night pleasure rides on his bicycle.
Another great find by Open Culture. This is gorgeous and inspires wanderlust.
Photo © Glen Preisler
Well, here's a cure for the architectural problem of the ugly parking garage! The Kansas City library has installed this 25 foot high "bookshelf" on the side of their parking structure for their central branch, featuring classic titles such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Invisible Man, among others. Neat!
Very clever way to hide a parking lot and also call attention to the library.
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